Author Tanizaki's 'haiku' poems on postcard discovered

NARA, Japan - A postcard (R) written by novelist Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) containing "haiku" poems describing his sense of uneasiness during the Pacific War is photographed at Tezukayama University's library in Nara City on July 4, 2014. (Kyodo)

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