![]() Battle Royale was serialized as a comic made into a feature film in 2000 and has been translated into more than ten languages. With its publication in Japan in 1999 it received widespread support and became a best seller. Battle Royale completed after Takami left the newspaper company was his debut work and his only novel published so far. Also he attended Nihon University''s liberal arts correspondence-course program and acquired an English teaching certificate for junior high and high school. ![]() ![]() After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature he worked for a newspaper company Shikoku Shinbun for five years reporting on politics police reports and economics. ![]() Koushun Takami was born in 1969 in Amagasaki near Osaka and grew up in Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku (the fourth largest island in Japan) where he currently resides. ![]()
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