Dazai, Osamu: - Osamu Dazai was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan.
His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday..
Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo\'s Tamagawa Aqueduct.
A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture.
Dazai, Osamu: - Osamu Dazai was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan