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  1. Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    K. Sako

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  1. Population Division, UN Dept of Economic Social Affairs Population Division, New York, NY, USA

    Danan Gu

  2. School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA

    Matthew E. Dupre

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  1. School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Raquel Medina

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Sako, K. (2019). Ageing and Detective Fiction. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_248-1

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