Nearly eight decades after Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's death, his troubled characters and portrayals of human insecurity are striking a chord with a new generation of readers, some of whom gather each year at a mountain teahouse where he once found solace.Every June, fans come together at Tenka Chaya in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, where Dazai spent a period recovering from a period of emotional turmoil in 1938, an experience he later chronicled in his short story "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji."Among those attending this year's gathering was Kurara Takatsu, a 16-year-old hi…READ FULL ARTICLE
