Japan to publish Saddam Hussein's novel on May 19

TOKYO, Japan - Itsuko Hirata, translator of a novel by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, holds up a Japanese copy of the book, ''Akuma no Dance (Devil's Dance).'' Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. said May 12 the novel has been published nowhere else. It will hit bookstores May 19.

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