was a Japanese novelist. He attended the

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, and upon graduation joined the staff of the literary magazine ''Shin-Shicho'' (新思潮: "New Thought") in 1950. The next year, Miura published his first book. He then married fellow

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writer

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in 1953, with whom he wrote many books about

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and religion. Miura began teaching at

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in 1967, the same year he was awarded the Shinchosha Prize. From 1985 to 1986, he was commissioner of the

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. In 1999, the Japanese government designated Miura a

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. In 2004, Miura was appointed to lead the

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. He stepped down in 2014, and died at a hospital in Tokyo due to

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on 3 February 2017, aged 91.Alt URL
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