Akimoto, Matsuyo (1911–)

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Akimoto, Matsuyo (1911–)

Japanese dramatist. Born Matsuyo Akimoto in 1911 in Yokohama, Japan; younger sister of Fujio Akimoto (antiwar Haiku poet).

Wrote the play Suicide for Love, among others; writings appear in The Collected Works of Akimoto Matsuyo (1976).

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