Hōjō Tamio

Japanese novelist · Japan · On the map · Writers · Lived 1914 to 1937 · aged 23

Tamio Hōjō was a Japanese writer. At the age of 19, he was diagnosed with leprosy, entered a hospital where he would be kept in isolation for the rest of his life, and died of the disease three and a half years later. Life's First Night is his representative work.

Hōjō Tamio is read about 32 times a day, in 5 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 8 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.

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