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Masaki Yamada

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Masaki Yamada is a Japanese science fiction author. He has won the Nihon SF Taisho Award, the Seiun Award three times, and an award for mystery fiction. His first story was in 1974. His...

Sion Sono

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Sion Sono is a controversial poet and filmmaker. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan and is best known for his movies and avant-garde poetry performances. Sono began his...

Yone Noguchi

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Yone Noguchi, born (and known in Japan as) Yonejiro Noguchi (野口米次郎 Noguchi Yonejirō, December 8, 1875 - July 13, 1947), was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary...

Kazuo Koike

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Kazuo Koike (小池一夫, Koike Kazuo, born May 8, 1936 in Daisen, Akita Prefecture) is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo...

Osamu Dazai

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Osamu Dazai (太宰治, Dazai Osamu); (June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. He is noted for his ironic...

Kenzaburō Ōe

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Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō, born January 31, 1935) is a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American...

Henri Cole

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Henri Cole (born 1956) is an American poet born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. From 1982 until 1988 he was executive...

Mutsuo Takahashi

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Mutsuo Takahashi (高橋睦郎, Takahashi Mutsuo, born December 15, 1937) is one of the most prominent and prolific male poets, essayists, and writers of contemporary Japan, with more than three...

松本零士

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Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士, Matsumoto Reiji, born Akira Matsumoto January 25, 1938 in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan) is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. His wife Miyako Maki (牧...

Hiroshi Takahashi

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Hiroshi Takahashi (高橋ヒロシ, Takahashi Hiroshi, born 12 December 1965) is a Japanese manga artist. Takahashi mostly known from his manga Crows and Worst. One of his manga was adapted into...

Shuhei Fujisawa

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Shuhei Fujisawa (藤沢周平, Fujisawa Shūhei) (26 December 1927 - 26 January 1997) was a Japanese author. His real name is Tomeji Kosuge (小菅留治). Over fifty of his books were published, including...

Shimazaki Toson

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Tōson Shimazaki is the pen-name of a Japanese author, active in the Meiji, Taishō and early Showa period Japan. He began his career as a poet, but...

Mako

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Mako Iwamatsu (マコ岩松, Mako Iwamatsu), born Makoto Iwamatsu (岩松信, Iwamatsu Makoto) (December 10, 1933 – July 21, 2006) was a Japanese-American actor. Many of his acting roles credited him...

Seishi Yokomizo

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Seishi Yokomizo (横溝正史, Yokomizo Seishi, 24 May 1902 - 28 December 1981) was a novelist in Showa period Japan. Yokomizo was born in Kobe city, Hyōgo Prefecture. He read detective stories as a...

Amélie Nothomb

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Amélie Nothomb (born Fabienne on August 13, 1967) is a Belgian writer who writes in French. She was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢清, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, born July 19, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre. Born in Kobe on July 19...

Toyohiko Kagawa

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Toyohiko Kagawa (賀川豊彦 Kagawa Toyohiko, 10 July 1888–23 April 1960) was a Japanese Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on...

Yoshi Oida

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Yoshi Oida is an actor.

Koushun Takami

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Koushun Takami is best-known as the author of the novel Battle Royale, originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and published...

Natsuo Kirino

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Natsuo Kirino , born in 1951 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese...

Kyoka Izumi

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Kyōka Izumi (泉鏡花, Izumi Kyōka, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939) is the pen name of a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar...

Kenji Miyazawa

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Kenji Miyazawa was a poet and author of children's literature in early Shōwa period Japan. He was also known as a devout Buddhist, vegetarian...

Phyllis A. Whitney

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Phyllis Ayame Whitney was an American mystery writer. Rare for her genre, she wrote mysteries for both the juvenile and the adult markets, many of which feature exotic locations. A review...

Yasuhiro Nightow

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Yasuhiro Nightow (内藤泰弘, Naitō Yasuhiro) is a Japanese manga artist and game creator who created the anime and manga Trigun. Nightow was born on April 8, 1967 in Yokohama, Japan. He moved to...

Allen Say

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Allen Say say also sufferd through ww2 and he moved back to japan Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture...

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