was a noted

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ese author. Onuma received his degree in English literature from

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in 1942, and in 1958 became a Waseda professor in the Faculty of Letters. He received the 1969

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for ''Kaichūdokei'' and in 1989 was named a member of the

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* Japanese Wikipedia article
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