coming of age

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coming of age

1. the moment when a person or thing reaches an important stage of development

a. the time when a person reaches legal adulthood

b. (as modifier): a coming-of-age ceremony.

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See Kamata Sadao "Jugonen-senso to gembaku bungaku." Hankaku, bungakusha wa utaeru (Tokyo: Hompu Shuppan, 1984) 169-218.

Implicating colonial memory and the atomic bombing: Hayashi Kyoko's three short stories

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Nagasaki woman claims war exhibition photo may be of her

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