Junichi Watanabe
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1933 – 2014
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Who was Junichi Watanabe?
Junichi Watanabe was a Japanese writer, known for his portrayal of extra-marital affairs of middle aged people.
His 1997 novel A Lost Paradise became a bestseller in Japan and over Asia, and was made into a film and a TV miniseries. He has written more than 50 novels in total, and won awards including Naoki Prize in 1970 for Light and Shadow, New Current Coterie magazine prize for Makeup, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize in 1979 for The Setting Sun in the Distance and The Russian Brothel of Nagasaki.
He was born in Sunagawamachi and died on April 30, 2014 of prostate cancer Tokyo.
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