Monday, August 15, 2011

Komatsu Sakyo (Japan Sinks)

Death of a sci-fi pioneer | The Japan Times Online
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20110814a1.html
On July 26, Komatsu Sakyo, a pioneer in Japanese science fiction, died at the age of 80. Born in Osaka in 1931, he witnessed firsthand the devastation of World War II. After graduating from Kyoto University with a degree in Italian literature ...
By chance, the announcement in the book by an American geodesic group of a massive shift in the earth's crust centered on the Japanese archipelago takes place on March 11, with Mount Fuji erupting the next day.

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