FEATURE: Japanese novelist Dazai still strikes chord with young readers

Kyodo News · KYODO NEWS · 2026-11-03 00:26 UTC

Nearly eight decades after Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's death, his troubled characters and portrayals of human insecurity are striking a chord with a new generation of readers, some of whom gather each year at a mountain teahouse where he once found solace.

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