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JAPANESE LITERATURE 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES & THE WORLD

日本Japan (Japanese:, Nippon or Nihon, and 日本国formally ) is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Japan is the eleventh-most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three- fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 125.36 million on narrow coastal plains.

KAORI EKUNI is a Japanese author. She was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. Her father is Japanese haiku poet and essayist, Shigeru EkunIni..Japan, she was dubbed the female Murakami. Her numerous works of fiction have been translated into several languages and published in many different countries, including her novel Twinkle Twinkle, which has been translated into English. ABOUT THE From 2004 to 2008 her books were continuously in Korea's top 50 bestsellers list. Twinkle Twinkle was a AUTHOR bestseller in 1991.

ABOUT THE STORY KIRA KIRA HIKARU BY KAORI EKUNI WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1991 BY SHINCHOSHA, TOKYO, JAPAN. IT WON THE MURASAKI SHIKIBU PRIZE IN 1992. THE ENGLISH VERSION TWINKLE TWINKLE WAS PUBLISHED IN 2003 IN NY, USA. IT WAS TRANSLATED IN ENLGISH BY EMI SHIMOKAW.

ABOUT THE STORY IN THE AFTERWORD OF HR NOVEL TWINKLE TWINKLE, KAORI ENUKI WROTE THAT THE TITLE WAS FROM A POEM BY YASUO IRIZAWA. \"THIS BOOK IS INTENDED TO BE A SIMPLE LOVE STORY. ABOUT FAILING IN LOVE, ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER PERSON. MY BELIEF IS THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING IS ALONE AND LONELY.