The pioneer of modern Japanese poetry and the lyricist of Howl's Moving Castle's ending song, Shuntaro Tanikawa, passes away ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, has died aged 92. Tanikawa, who translated the Peanuts comic strip ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

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