Jakucho Setouchi. (Mainichi)

       TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Jakucho Setouchi, a novelist and Buddhist nun who was also active in anti-war and anti-nuclear activities, has died of heart failure, a source in the publishing industry said Thursday. She was 99.

       Setouchi, who was awarded the Order of Culture in 2006, died at a hospital in Kyoto, western Japan, on Tuesday.

       She was a native of Tokushima Prefecture in western Japan.

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