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Rita Taketsuru née Cowan

Posted on October 3, 2014 by iainmaloney — Leave a comment

A new soap opera has just started in Japan called Massan and is (loosely) based on the life of Rita Cowan from Kirkintilloch, Scotland. In 1920 she married a Japanese student Masataka Taketsuru and the couple moved to Japan. Together…

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