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Article: Ryotaro Shiba, in memorium.
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- Japan Inc.
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- June 22, 2006
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Ryotaro Shiba (1923-1996), novelist, essayist, travel writer. Yet 250 paperback editions of his 350 books still line store shelves. In January NHK began a yearlong broadcast of an adaptation of Shiba's novel Komyo ga Tsuji. And recently the Asahi Shimbun held a symposium on Shiba.
His sales figures astonish. The novel Ryoma ga Yuku, about Ryoma Sakamoto, the Meiji Restoration hero, has sold 21.5 million copies; Saka no Ue no Kumo, the story of the destruction of the Baltic fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, 14.45 million; Tobu ga Gotoku, about Takamori Saigo, another Meiji hero, 11 million. Even his less ...
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May 22, 2005 ;
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... ... game as a team," Central senior Whitney Shiba said. "For the seniors ... we're ... corner of the net in the 53rd minutes, and Shiba scored the eventual game-winner by going ... to set up an opportunity like that," Shiba said. "We had a nice passing build ...
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