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Club, Japan. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Korean, and
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While working as a political secretary to his father, Tsutsumi met Motoko
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in 1927. During his childhood, he lived with his mother Misao and half-sister Kuniko. Misao wrote traditional
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in 1951, he re-enrolled as a literature student and worked as a secretary to his father. He joined the
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and Loft variety store chains. He resigned as head of Saison in 1991 following the collapse of the
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was a
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Tsutsumi died of liver failure in Tokyo on
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Shōwa no shūen : 20-seiki shogainen no hōkai to mirai
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Just before the death of his father
Yasujiro, his brother
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About our founder Seiji Tsutsumi - THE SAISON FOUNDATION
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577:(いつも と 同じ 春), Tōkyō : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1983.
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writing problems by being preoccupied with business."
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