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Ryu Murakami Has Died. His Writing Explored the Dark Side of Japan.

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His books about sex, drugs and social misfits amid the country’s economic boom — and subsequent bust — sold millions of copies. Ryu Murakami, a novelist, filmmaker and television host whose bracing psychological explorations of the underside of Japanese society made him one of his country’s most …

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