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Waseda University.
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June Henmi
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The book was later made into a 2005 movie under the same title. Henmi died on September 21, 2011, after collapsing in her home in a Tokyo suburb. She was 72 years old.
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Henmi was the daughter of General"yoshi Kadokawa, founder of publisher Kadokawa Shoten and the older sister of Haruki Kadokawa. Henmi won the Nitta Jirō Culture Prize in 1984 for her 1983 book Yamato: The Last Battle (男たちの大和, Otoko-tachi no Yamato, lit Yamato of Men), about crew members of the Japanese battleship Yamato and their final voyage during Operation Ten-Go. Henmi also won two nonfiction literary awards for her 1989 work Farewell Notes from a Prison Camp (収容所から来た遺書, Shūyōjo kara Kita Isho) about notes received 10 years after World World War II by the family of a man who died in a Russian prison camp in Siberia.
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Japanese