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Japanese novelist Komatsu

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2004 shows Japanese novelist Sakyo Komatsu. The popular science fiction writer, known for his bestselling disaster novel ''Nippon Chimbotsu'' (Japan Sinks), died of pneumonia on July 26, 2011, at age 80.

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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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Novelist Komatsu dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2004 shows Japanese novelist Sakyo Komatsu. The popular science fiction writer died of pneumonia on July 26, 2011, at age 80.

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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. (Kyodo)

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Novelist Komatsu dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2004 shows Japanese novelist Sakyo Komatsu. The popular science fiction writer died of pneumonia on July 26, 2011, at age 80. (Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Komatsu

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2004 shows Japanese novelist Sakyo Komatsu. The popular science fiction writer, known for his bestselling disaster novel ''Nippon Chimbotsu'' (Japan Sinks), died of pneumonia on July 26, 2011, at age 80. (Kyodo)