Aug 27, 2010 - Tokyo, Japan - Japanese novelist and filmmaker RYU MURAKAMI poses for photos in Tokyo, Japan. Ryu Murakami was born as Ryunosuke Murakami in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1952. Murakami s first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth and won the newcomer s literature prize and the Akutagawa Prize in 1976. The novel is a best seller in Japan and its sales volume reached 3.5 million. - ZUMAc32_
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Aug 27, 2010 - Tokyo, Japan - Japanese novelist and filmmaker RYU MURAKAMI poses for photos in Tokyo, Japan. Ryu Murakami was born as Ryunosuke Murakami in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1952. Murakami s first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth and won the newcomer s literature prize and the Akutagawa Prize in 1976. The novel is a best seller in Japan and its sales volume reached 3.5 million. - ZUMAc32_
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