Taichi Yamada
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Taichi Yamada (山田 太一 Yamada Taichi?, b. 6 June 1934) is an acclaimed Japanese screenwriter and novelist. (Yamada is a pseudonym; his real name is Taichi Ishizaka (石坂 太一 Ishizaka Taichi?).) He worked at the Shōchiku film studios before he started his career as a freelance scriptwriter and novelist. His novel Ijintachi to no natsu (異人たちとの夏?), first published in 1987, won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for best human-interest novel. It was also Yamada's first to be translated into English, in 2004, as Strangers. The second English translation, In Search of a Distant Voice, followed in 2006, from a novel originally published in Japan in 1986. A third, I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While (飛ぶ夢をしばらく見ない Tobu yume o shibaraku minai?), is due in 2008.