His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. OSAMU DAZAI was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. Book Summary: This English translation, of the classic 1939 novella by Osamu Dazais depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl.
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