 However, he did not give up his literary aspirations, and this job provided him with an insight into the lives of white-collar workers, albeit from the rather lofty position of director of one of Japan's largest insurance companies.Minakami wrote numerous novels in the 1920s and 1930s depicting the lives of common, urban people.His works include a novel "Osaka no yado" ("An Inn in Osaka", 1925–1926) and "Kaigara Tsuihō " (1918–1940), a collection of essays.