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Seventeen By Hideo Yokoyama

Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama

Seventeen bills itself as “an investigative thriller” but in my opinion, it is not. It is more of an intriguing story of a local Japanese newspaper, the North Kanto Times, using the backdrop of the real air crash of Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 123 in 1985 to present a fascinating insight into the workings of a daily newspaper, laying bare ...

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