Fumitake Koga

Fumitake Koga is a Japanese writer who began his career as a freelance journalist and ghostwriter. He has written and co-written many nonfiction books on business and self-help, and he has said that his craft is the interview: drawing a person's thinking out and giving it a shape readers can follow.

In his late twenties he read Ichiro Kishimi's introduction to the psychology of Alfred Adler and sought Kishimi out. Over several years of conversations the two turned Adler's ideas into The Courage to Be Disliked (2013), written as a dialogue between a philosopher and an angry young man, in the manner of Plato. The form was Koga's choice. The book sold more than three million copies in Japan and became a bestseller across Asia before its English edition in 2018.

The pair followed it with The Courage to Be Happy (2016). Koga lives in Japan and continues to write with other authors.