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Eiji Yoshikawa

Died in 1962

Eiji Yoshikawa was born on 11 August 1892 in Yokohama, in Kanagawa prefecture. The bankruptcy of his father's business made him leave school after primary level; he worked on the docks, where an accident nearly killed him, then entered an apprenticeship with a lacquerer in Tokyo. Having joined a newspaper in 1921, he published serialised novels there. A correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun in China in 1937, he was in 1960 the first popular author to be decorated with the Order of Culture, and died in Tokyo on 7 September 1962.

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