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- Katsumoto Saotome was born on March 26, 1932 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a writer, known for Sensou to seishun (1991), The Secret (1960) and Ashita o tsukuru shôjo (1958). He was married to Naoe Kaneko,. He died on May 10, 2022 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
- SpouseNaoe Kaneko,(? - 2008) (her death, 3 children)
- When he was 12, he survived the American firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945. This now largely-forgotten event killed as many as 100,000 civilians and left about 1 million homeless. He spent much of his life writing books and documentaries to perpetuate the memory of this attack.
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