Taichi Yamada

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Taichi Yamada is an acclaimed Japanese novelist. He worked at the Shochku film studios before he started his career as a freelance scriptwriter and novelist. His novel Strangers, first published in 1987, won the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for best human-interest novel. It was also the first to be translated into English, in 2004. The second English translation, In Search Of A Distant Voice, originally published in Japan in 1986, followed in 2006.