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Nao-Cola Yamazaki "seems more interested in the distance between lovers than in what unites them", but also called "Friendship for Grown Ups" "funny and clever". Nao-Cola Yamazaki Yamazaki was born in 1978 in Kitakyushu, Japan. Shortly after her birth her family moved to Saitama Prefecture, where she was raised. Yamazaki started writing fiction as a senior at Kokugakuin University, from which she graduated after writing a thesis on the character Ukifune in "The Tale of Genji". She chose the pen name "Nao-Cola" because she liked Diet Coke. Yamazaki made her literary debut in 2004 with "", a story about a romantic relationship