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Akiko Itoyama (絲山秋子, Itoyama Akiko, born in Setagaya, Tokyo on November 22, 1966, now living in Takasaki, Gunma) is a Japanese novelist. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Tanizaki Prize, and her work has been adapted for film.