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BORN: 1924, Tokyo
DIED: 1993, Tokyo
NATIONALITY: Japanese
GENRE: Fiction, drama, nonfiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)
The…
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NEARBY TERMS
abnormality