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Cherries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Roger Pulvers  and
Dazai Osamu
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“It's not that I'm weak, it's that the suffering weighs down on me too heavily.”

This was said, in 1938, by a writer whose life and death are noted with public attention every year in June. The popularity of this author has not waned in Japan. Crowds gather on June 19 around the country in rituals of celebration and mourning. Given the personality of this man, it is not easy to separate the two.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 25 , July 2011 , e2
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