Playwright Kohei Tsuka dies

Playwright Kohei Tsuka dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows playwright Kohei Tsuka during an audition of actors for a play in Seoul, South Korea, in December 1998. Tsuka died of lung cancer at the age of 62 on July 10, 2010. (Kyodo)

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