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: A high-quality scan of the original Japanese book is available for digital borrowing on the Internet Archive .

" (絶歌, meaning "Song of Despair"). It is an autobiography written by the perpetrator of the 1997 Kobe child murders, who used the alias Seito Sakakibara English Availability : There is no official English edition of

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