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Tour of Donald Keene's Tokyo neighborhood reveals scholar's modest life and love of Japan
TOKYO -- A tour tracing the footsteps of U.S.-born Japanologist Donald Keene showed him as not only a devoted scholar but a pacifist and down-to-earth Full article
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