Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of colon cancer at 68
Keigo Higashino, the acclaimed Japanese author known for best-selling novels such as 'The Devotion of Suspect X' and 'Journey Under the Midnight Sun', has died of colon cancer at the age of 68. His works, which won the Naoki Prize and were adapted into popular films and TV series, enjoyed wide readership in Japan and abroad.
Japanese author Keigo Higashino died of colon cancer on the 23rd local time at the age of 68. Higashino was known for his Naoki Prize-winning novel 'The Devotion of Suspect X' and the widely popular 'Journey Under the Midnight Sun', which was adapted into film and television and enjoyed great popularity both in Japan and abroad, among many other best-selling novels.
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