Nobel laureate writer Kawabata's 1955 letter to novelist found

This letter, pictured in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 9, 2015, was written by Japanese Nobel prize-winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata in February 1955 to another Japanese writer Seiichi Funabashi. It was among some 1,000 letters penned by Kawabata and discovered recently at his former Tokyo home and elsewhere. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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