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In a novel titled for one of these places, a father mourns his radiologist son’s unexpected death by chanting the mantra “Namu Amida Butsu.” For 10 points each:
[10h] In a 2014 “post-tsunami” novel, what sort of place borders a park roamed by the ghost of a homeless construction worker hired for the 1964 Olympics?
ANSWER: train stations [or railway stations or subway station; or eki; accept Tokyo Ueno Station or JR Ueno-Eki Kōenguchi]
[10e] Tokyo Ueno (“ooh-WAY-noh”) Station author Miri Yū created a writer who takes up this hobby after her grandfather in The End of August. Haruki Murakami wrote of his passion for this activity in a memoir with a Raymond Carver-inspired title.
ANSWER: long-distance running [accept What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]
[10m] In an earlier entry of Yū’s “Yamanote Line Series,” one of these people contemplates suicide at a train station. A novel by Shin Kyung-sook opens with an elderly one of these people disappearing in a subway station.
ANSWER: mothers [or moms or mamas; accept eomma; accept Goodbye Mama or Please Look After Mom; prompt on parents; prompt on women]
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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaColumbia A10101030HEM
Chicago AWUSTL B010010E
Chicago BRIT0101020EM
Cornell ALSE0101020EM
Georgia StateVirginia Tech0101020EM
Georgia TechColumbia B0101020EM
HarvardWaterloo A0101020EM
Illinois APenn State10101030HEM
IndianaWUSTL A010010E
Iowa StateCornell B010010E
MITFlorida010010E
North Carolina AMaryland1001020HM
NorthwesternOhio State010010E
RutgersNYU010010E
Toronto BMinnesota10101030HEM
UC Berkeley AToronto A0101020EM
UC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins0101020EM
VirginiaToronto C0000
Waterloo BTexas0101020EM
YaleIllinois B0101020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2017.5090%65%20%