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Aussie author threatened over Japan book
The Australian author of a controversial book on Japan's Crown Princess Masako has said that he has received death threats, ahead of the book’s Japanese-language release this week.
The Japanese government has said that the original version of Ben Hills' Princess Masako - Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne was an insult to the royal family and had sought an apology from him.
A Tokyo-based publisher will release the Japanese version of the book on Wednesday, months after another publisher's plans for a translation were scrapped, prompting Hills to complain that Tokyo had censored his work.
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