The Constricted Life of Japan’s Royal Family
Thursday, December 25, 2008
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(Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)
John Burnham Schwartz’s new novel, The Commoner, is based on the life of Japan’s Empress Michiko, who was the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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John Burnham Schwartz
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Comments [1]
I would like to send a friend in Sweden your oral interview with the author of "The Commoner" but I do not know how.
Would you please send me the web site so I can send it to her. Then i can send it along with the book.
Many thanks,
John
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