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Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Japanese actor Shiro Sano (L) recites passages from works of Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, an author originally from Lefkada, Greece, with music played by Japanese guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto on the Greek island on July 5, 2014, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hearn's birth. Both Sano and Yamamoto are from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, where Hearn spent his later life.

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Opening of Yakumo Koizumi museum in Greece

Opening of Yakumo Koizumi museum in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - A Seiwa Bunraku puppet from Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, cuts the tape on July 4, 2014, to celebrate the opening of a memorial museum for Meiji-period writer Yakumo Koizumi, whose real name was Lafcadio Hearn, on Greece's Lefkada island where he was born in 1850. He moved to Japan and lived in such places as Kumamoto and Matsue.

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