Jakucho Setouchi, Japan’s outspoken nun and the author dead at 99
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Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist nun and one of Japan’s best-known authors best known for novels depicting passionate women and her translation of “The Tale of Genji,” a 1,000-year-old classic, into modern language, died Tuesday, Nov. 9 of heart failure. The…