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U.S. children's book author Ruth Stiles Gannett dies at 100

American children's book author Ruth Stiles Gannett holds copies of her bestseller "My Father's Dragon" and its sequel during a visit to Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2018. She died on June 11, 2024, aged 100.

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Chinese classics gain popularity in Türkiye as cultural exchange flourishes: sinologist

STORY: Chinese classics gain popularity in Türkiye as cultural exchange flourishes: sinologist SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 9, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 13, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:56 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Türkiye 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GIRAY FIDAN, Turkish sinologist, author and translator 3. various of China 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): GIRAY FIDAN, Turkish sinologist, author and translator STORYLINE A Turkish sinologist is passionately introducing the Chinese culture of peace through his translations to an ever-growing audience of Turkish readers. In 2014, Giray Fidan, an Ankara-based professor of Chinese language and history, collaborated with his professor to translate the Chinese classic "The Art of War" from Chinese into Turkish. The translated version of the book by ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu 25 centuries ago became a bestseller in Türkiye, where it was reprinted 25 times in nine years. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GIRAY FIDAN, Turkish sinologist, author and translator "'The A

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Games Popular In China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 27, 2023 - Young people take part in the Honor of Kings tournament in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, May 27, 2023. On May 17, 2023, the intelligence data of Sensor Tower Store showed that Tencent's Honor of Kings had earned 213 million dollars in the global App Store and Google Play in April, 2023, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list for a second year.

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Games Popular In China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 27, 2023 - Young people take part in the Honor of Kings tournament in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, May 27, 2023. On May 17, 2023, the intelligence data of Sensor Tower Store showed that Tencent's Honor of Kings had earned 213 million dollars in the global App Store and Google Play in April, 2023, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list for a second year.

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Games Popular In China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 27, 2023 - Young people take part in the Honor of Kings tournament in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, May 27, 2023. On May 17, 2023, the intelligence data of Sensor Tower Store showed that Tencent's Honor of Kings had earned 213 million dollars in the global App Store and Google Play in April, 2023, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list for a second year.

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Games Popular In China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 27, 2023 - Young people take part in the Honor of Kings tournament in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, May 27, 2023. On May 17, 2023, the intelligence data of Sensor Tower Store showed that Tencent's Honor of Kings had earned 213 million dollars in the global App Store and Google Play in April, 2023, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list for a second year.

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Games Popular In China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 27, 2023 - Young people take part in the Honor of Kings tournament in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, May 27, 2023. On May 17, 2023, the intelligence data of Sensor Tower Store showed that Tencent's Honor of Kings had earned 213 million dollars in the global App Store and Google Play in April, 2023, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list for a second year.

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Games Popular In China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 27, 2023 - Young people take part in the Honor of Kings tournament in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, May 27, 2023. On May 17, 2023, the intelligence data of Sensor Tower Store showed that Tencent's Honor of Kings had earned 213 million dollars in the global App Store and Google Play in April, 2023, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list for a second year.

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Games Popular In China

YANTAI, CHINA - MAY 27, 2023 - Young people take part in the Honor of Kings tournament in Yantai, East China's Shandong province, May 27, 2023. On May 17, 2023, the intelligence data of Sensor Tower Store showed that Tencent's Honor of Kings had earned 213 million dollars in the global App Store and Google Play in April, 2023, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list for a second year.

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Chinese comic version of Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" released

STORY: Chinese comic version of Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" released DATELINE: Feb. 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of a promotional video created by the Chinese publishing house 2. Paulo Coelho talking about the comic version of his work 3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese): PAULO COEHLO, Brazilian writer STORYLINE: The Chinese comic version of "The Alchemist," a widely translated international bestseller by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho has been released in China. In a recent interview with Xinhua via video link, Coelho said he is expecting the comic version to reach more readers in China and the world at large. The Brazilian author has opened accounts on Chinese social media networks, expecting to have more interactions with the readers. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese): PAULO COEHLO, Brazilian writer "Some publishers will buy the publishing right of the comic version. And then the Chinese comic version will be translated into different languages in othe

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Toilet cleaning tablet Bluelet recognized by Guinness as world bestseller

OSAKA, Japan - Akihiro Kobayashi, president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., holds a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing a dissolving gel that cleans and scents water used in flushing toilets, named Bluelet and made by his company, as the worldwide best-selling toilet tank product, a new category, based on its record sales of about 13.8 billion yen in 2013, standing next to a pile of the product in Osaka on Nov. 10, 2014.

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Novel on U.S. POW's life in Japan becomes bestseller

NEW YORK, Japan - The novel "UNBROKEN," based on the late U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Louis Zamperini's experience as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for a long period of time.

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Ezra Vogel in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Ezra Vogel (R), a professor emeritus at Harvard University, gives a speech during an event in Osaka on Sept. 11, 2013. The 83-year-old professor is known in Japan for his 1979 book "Japan as Number One: Lessons for America," which became a bestseller in the country.

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Ezra Vogel in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Ezra Vogel, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, gives a speech in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2013. The 83-year-old professor is known in Japan for his 1979 book "Japan as Number One: Lessons for America," which became a bestseller in the country.

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'Anatomy of Dependence' author Doi dies at 89

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned psychoanalyst Takeo Doi (in this undated file photo), who penned the 1970s bestseller ''The Anatomy of Dependence,'' died July 5. He was 89.

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Toyota Vitz bestseller for 1st time in over 4 years

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp.'s Vitz (file photo) becomes the best-selling new passenger car in Japan in February, grabbing the top spot for the first time since July 2000. The Vitz sold 15,165 units in the month, followed by 13,811 units for Toyota's Corolla and 12,678 units for Nissan Motor Co.'s Note, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said.

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Star geisha Nakamura dies in N.Y. at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Kiharu Nakamura (file photo), a star geisha whose autobiography ''Edokko Geisha Ichidaiki'' (The memoir of a Tokyo-born geisha) became a bestseller, died on Jan. 5 at her home in New York. She was 90.

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'Bells of Nagasaki' translated into Bengali

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mahbubur Rahman holds the Bengali translation of Takashi Nagai's 1949 bestseller ''Nagasaki no Kane,'' or ''The Bells of Nagasaki'' at the Nagasaki city office Aug. 8. He said he plans to donate the work to high schools, universities and libraries in Bangladesh.

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Disabled best-selling author gets married

TOKYO, Japan - Hirotada Ototake (file photo), the author of a bestseller about his life virtually without limbs, married a student of Tokyo's Waseda University on the day of her graduation March 25, according to his Web site. Ototake, 24, said through his agents March 27 that he is grateful for being ''given a strong partner at such an early stage of my life.''

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Toyota Vitz bestseller for 1st time in over 4 years

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp.'s Vitz (file photo) becomes the best-selling new passenger car in Japan in February, grabbing the top spot for the first time since July 2000. The Vitz sold 15,165 units in the month, followed by 13,811 units for Toyota's Corolla and 12,678 units for Nissan Motor Co.'s Note, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said. (Kyodo)

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The Iron Stair - film poster

A lady in a revealing dress adjusts her stocking. Film poster for 'The Iron Stair' by Leslie S Hiscott, 1933. From the famous bestseller by "Rita", starring Dorothy Boyd and Henry Kendall, produced by Julius Hagen. Date: 1933

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French bestseller author delivers speech in London

French economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestselling "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," delivers a speech in London as seen in this file photo taken in June 2014. The Japanese version of the book sold about 130,000 copies in a month through mid-January, becoming a rare hit for a book with difficult content. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's publication sales post largest drop in 2015

Photo taken Jan. 22, 2016, at Kyodo News in Tokyo shows some of Japan's bestseller novels in 2015; (from L) "Saraba!" by Kanako Nishi, "Hibana" by Naoki Matayoshi and "Ryu" by Akira Higashiyama. A research institute said Jan. 25 that sales of books and magazines in Japan for 2015 fell 5.3 percent from the previous year to an estimated 1.5 trillion yen ($12.6 billion), marking the largest drop on record and the 11th year of decline. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thomas Piketty gives lecture in Tokyo

Thomas Piketty, French economist and author of the bestseller "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," gives a lecture in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Copies of French author's bestseller piled up at Tokyo bookstore

Copies of the Japanese version of French economist Thomas Piketty's bestselling "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" and related books are piled up at a Tokyo bookstore on Jan. 16, 2015. The book sold about 130,000 copies in a month through mid-January, becoming a rare hit for a book with difficult content. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Rich Dad" book author

Personal finance expert and acclaimed author Robert Kiyosaki holds his bestseller book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 17, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Rich Dad" book author

Personal finance expert and acclaimed author Robert Kiyosaki holds his bestseller book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 17, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Books outsell magazines at major wholesaler for 1st time in 32 yrs

Photo taken Jan. 22, 2016, in Tokyo shows some of Japan's bestseller novels in 2015. Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc., a major Japanese wholesale bookseller, has said its unconsolidated book sales in fiscal 2015 through March 2016 grew slightly from the previous year to 247.6 billion yen ($2.42 billion), exceeding magazine sales for the first time in 32 years. The solid book sales were attributed to a number of hit novels including Akutagawa Prize-winning "Hibana" (Spark, C) by comedian Naoki Matayoshi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Novelist donates manuscript of bestseller to hometown museum

The original handwritten manuscript of popular Japanese writer Lily Franky's autobiographical novel "Tokyo Tower" is exhibited on Oct. 24, 2015, at the Kitakyushu Literature Museum in Kitakyushu, the author's hometown in southwestern Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Author donates manuscript of bestseller to hometown museum

Popular Japanese novelist Lily Franky talks about his autobiographical novel "Tokyo Tower" during a talk show on Oct. 24, 2015, at the Kitakyushu Literature Museum in Kitakyushu, his hometown in southwestern Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture. Franky donated the bestseller's handwritten original to the museum. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Anatomy of Dependence' author Doi dies at 89

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned psychoanalyst Takeo Doi (in this undated file photo), who penned the 1970s bestseller ''The Anatomy of Dependence,'' died July 5. He was 89. (Kyodo)

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Toilet cleaning tablet Bluelet recognized by Guinness as world bestseller

OSAKA, Japan - Akihiro Kobayashi, president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., holds a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing a dissolving gel that cleans and scents water used in flushing toilets, named Bluelet and made by his company, as the worldwide best-selling toilet tank product, a new category, based on its record sales of about 13.8 billion yen in 2013, standing next to a pile of the product in Osaka on Nov. 10, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Novel on U.S. POW's life in Japan becomes bestseller

NEW YORK, Japan - The novel "UNBROKEN," based on the late U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Louis Zamperini's experience as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for a long period of time. (Kyodo)

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'Bells of Nagasaki' translated into Bengali

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mahbubur Rahman holds the Bengali translation of Takashi Nagai's 1949 bestseller ''Nagasaki no Kane,'' or ''The Bells of Nagasaki'' at the Nagasaki city office Aug. 8. He said he plans to donate the work to high schools, universities and libraries in Bangladesh. (Kyodo)

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Harvard professor Ezra Vogel

Harvard University Professor Emeritus Ezra Vogel, seen in this file photo taken in November 2019 in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, died of complications from surgery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Dec. 20, 2020, at age 90. The leading American expert in East Asian sociology is widely known for his 1979 book "Japan as Number One: Lessons for America," which became a bestseller in Japan.

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Star geisha Nakamura dies in N.Y. at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Kiharu Nakamura (file photo), a star geisha whose autobiography ''Edokko Geisha Ichidaiki'' (The memoir of a Tokyo-born geisha) became a bestseller, died on Jan. 5 at her home in New York. She was 90. (Kyodo)