Fusako Tsunoda was a Japanese writer.

Biography

Tsunoda was born Fusa Tsunoda on December 5, 1914, in

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, Japan. She studied at

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and lived in Paris for several years. She began writing in 1955 while living abroad. She wrote about a wide variety of topics ranging from the Japanese colonization of Manchuria to Japanese immigration to Brazil. Her work won several awards. She died on January 1, 2010.

References

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