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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:41 pm

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‘Genji’ translator Seidensticker dies

Edward G. Seidensticker, renowned American translator of Japanese literature, including a 1975 rendering of “The Tale of Genji,” died Sunday in a Tokyo hospital, sources close to Seidensticker said. He was 86.

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