01.05.1927 - 31.07.2006 (79 years) (Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan)
Akira Yoshimura (吉村 昭, Yoshimura Akira, May 1, 1927; † July 31, 2006) was a award-winning Japanese writer. Internationally he is best known for his novels Shipwrecks and On Parole.
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