Japanese novelist Kawabata

Japanese novelist Kawabata

KAMAKURA, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata meets the press at his home in Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 18, 1968, the day he was officially informed that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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