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  2. Kosuke Kindaichi - Wikipedia

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    Kosuke Kindaichi (金田一 耕助, Kindaichi Kōsuke) is a fictional Japanese detective created by Seishi Yokomizo, a renowned mystery novelist.His first case, The Honjin Murders, is a novel of a locked room murder in an old family house, which many people regard as one of the best Japanese detective novels, was published in 1946.

  3. Oyayubihime (film) - Wikipedia

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    TBS. Release. September 13. (1999-09-13) –. October 4, 1999. (1999-10-04) Oyayubihime (親ゆび姫, Thumb Princess) is a 1999 Japanese TV movie, which is a take on the 1835 fairy tale "Thumbelina". Being a part of the Kowai Dōwa (コワイ童話, Scary Fairy Tales) series, the movie stars Chiaki Kuriyama.

  4. Saeko Himuro - Wikipedia

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    Saeko Himuro (氷室 冴子, Himuro Saeko, January 11, 1957 – June 6, 2008) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and playwright born in Iwamizawa, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was one of the most popular authors released under Shueisha's Cobalt Bunko imprint. She is best known outside Japan for I Can Hear the Sea ...

  5. Pebble in the Sky - Wikipedia

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    Boucher and McComas were disappointed by the novel, saying that despite Asimov's good ideas, "his heavy treatment and routine plot are disappointing. [3] L. Sprague de Camp, however, recommended the novel highly, praising it as "excellent; one of the few really mature and professional jobs available in book form [in 1950]. . . . Asimov's ...

  6. The White Room (KLF album) - Wikipedia

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    The White Room was supposed to be followed by a darker, harder complementary album The Black Room, but that plan was abandoned when the KLF retired in 1992. On 23 April 2021, a re-edited version of the album was officially released on streaming platforms, in a series of digital reissues, as The White Room (Director's Cut) , featuring new edits ...

  7. The Book 3 - Wikipedia

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    The Book 3. The Book 3 is the third Japanese-language EP (sixth overall) by Japanese duo Yoasobi. It was released on October 4, 2023, through Sony Music Entertainment Japan, one year and ten months after their second EP The Book 2 (2021). Continuing with the "reading CD " concept as previous records, the EP spans electropop and synth-pop genres ...

  8. Book banning in the United States (2021–present) - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of removing books mention how certain kinds of lessons dealing with racism and history can make students uncomfortable and make white students feel guilty. [19] In some other cases, the books have been by or about people of color or the LGBTQ community, but the reasons cited for removal have to do with profanity or sex. [8]

  9. Saeko Hayashi - Wikipedia

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    Saeko S. Hayashi (born 1958, Japanese: 林 左絵子) is a Japanese astronomer based in Hawaii whose research interests include star formation, protoplanetary disks, the atmosphere of exoplanets, and the construction and optics of large telescopes. [1] She is an associate professor of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and The ...