Kawabata had a lifelong friendship with which other Japanese writer?
Kenzaburo Oe
Haruki Murakami
Junichiro Tanizaki
Yukio Mishima
Answer
Yukio Mishima was a lifelong friend of Kawabata. They were both major figures in Japanese literature and were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.
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