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Takuya Asakura

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Takuya Asakura


Born
in Sapporo, Japan
January 01, 1966


Born in Sapporo in 1966, Takuya Asakura graduated from the University of Tokyo. He won the first 'This Mystery is Amazing!' Grand Prize in 2002 for Yokkakan no Kiseki (The Miracle of Four Days), which was subsequently made into a film and sold over 1.3 million copies.
Takuya is also a translator and translated Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library from English into Japanese. ...more

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『四日間の奇蹟』ピアノ名曲集　「時の踊り」
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“Words hold such immense power. A book is a door to the unknown; it warmly welcomes those who step inside and transports them to all sorts of times and places.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
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“If only the world knew that certain things were not meant to be measured by metrics like efficiency and profitability.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
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“I’m afraid that’s something even I can’t say for sure. Miracles are capricious things.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
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