Novelist Komatsu dies

Novelist Komatsu dies

KOBE, Japan - A woman views an exhibition on Japanese novelist Sakyo Komatsu at Kobe City Museum of Literature in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 28, 2011. The popular science fiction writer died of pneumonia two days before at the age of 80.

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