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and

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employee. She is a graduate of

Seijo University is a private university in Seijō, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by the Seijo Gakuen institute. History Seijo University has its origins in , which was founded in 1917 by Masataro Sawayanagi, a former minister of education. U ...

's School of Literature. She is a daughter of novelist

Morio Kita was the pen name of , a Japanese psychiatrist, novelist and essayist. Kita was the second son of poet Mokichi Saitō. , his older brother, was also a psychiatrist. The essayist Yuka Saitō is Kita's daughter. Kita attended Azabu High School a ...

, a niece of psychiatrist

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and a granddaughter of poet

Mokichi Saitō was a Japanese poet of the Taishō period, a member of the Araragi school of tanka, and a psychiatrist. Mokichi was born in the village of Kanakame, now part of Kaminoyama, Yamagata in 1882. He attended Tokyo Imperial University Medical Sc ...

Bibliography

* Madogiwa OL Tohoho na Asa Ufufu no Yoru (

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, ) ** Manga serialization in

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(Manga by Nobu Ueda,

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, ) * Madogiwa OL Kaisha wa Itsu mo Ten'yawan'ya (Shinchosha, ) * Mota Sensei to Madogiwa OL no Hitodukiai ga Raku ni Naru Hon (work with Shigeta Saitō,

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, ) * Mōjo to Yobareta Shukujo: Sobo Saitō Teruko no Ikikata (Shinchosha, ) * Madogiwa OL Oya to Jōshi wa Erabenai (Shinchosha, ) * Papa wa Tanoshii Sōutubyō (work with Morio Kita,

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, ) * Madogiwa OL Jinjikou-ka de Gakeppuchi (Shinchosha, )

TV

* Tetsuko no Heya (May 12, 2008 with Morio Kita)

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Interview with Yuka Saitō
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