![]() ![]() Battle Royale was serialized as a comic made into a feature film in 2000 and has been translated into more than ten languages. With its publication in Japan in 1999 it received widespread support and became a best seller. Battle Royale completed after Takami left the newspaper company was his debut work and his only novel published so far. Also he attended Nihon University''s liberal arts correspondence-course program and acquired an English teaching certificate for junior high and high school. ![]() ![]() After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature he worked for a newspaper company Shikoku Shinbun for five years reporting on politics police reports and economics. Koushun Takami was born in 1969 in Amagasaki near Osaka and grew up in Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku (the fourth largest island in Japan) where he currently resides. ![]()
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