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who michiko yamamoto is
Michiko Yamamoto is the professional name of Michiko Furuya , a Japanese writer and poet. Yamamoto won the Shincho Prize for New Writers, the Akutagawa Prize, and the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature.
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wikidata records a date of death for Michiko Yamamoto in 2026, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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