"We're going to Japan to follow Amiko Tanaka, a character from Natsuko Imamura's book This is Amiko, Do You Copy? (orig. Kochira Amiko / こちらあみ子, Amiko Here). First published in 2011 and translated to English by Hitomi Yoshio in 2023. Imamura is a Japanese writer and has won the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize and was nominated three times for Akutagawa Prize. Her other recent best-selling book is The Woman in the Purple Skirt (orig. Murasaki no sukaato no onna / むらさきのスカートの女 )."
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