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Literature: Akira Mizubayashi: love and music, between France and Japan

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Akira Mizubayashi © Francesca Mantovani / Gallimard

By: Pascal Paradou Follow

In 1939, Jun, a student at the Paris Conservatory, had to leave France and Anna, his great love, "his queen of hearts" for his native Japan.

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The war will get the better of the two lovers.

Years later, their granddaughter Marie-Mizuné would go in search of these family secrets and silences.

Guest: Akira Mizubayashi,

Japanese writer of Japanese and French expression.

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