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Ishikawa Jun

Died in 1987

Ishikawa Kiyoshi, known as Ishikawa Jun, was born on 7 March 1899 in Asakusa, Tokyo, the son of a banker. A graduate in French literature of the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages, he served in the navy in 1922 and 1923, then taught French literature at the university, which he left after a controversy over his support for a student movement. He translated Anatole France, Gide and Molière. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize in 1936, he died of lung cancer on 29 December 1987.

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