Lori Tsugawa Whaley is a Japanese American author, motivational speaker, and life coach with a very interesting family history. With lineage descending from the samurai warrior class, she has been…
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Rebecca Otowa is an American-born, Australian-reared, and Japanese-educated writer and painter who has been calling Japan home for the past 40 years. She has written extensively for several English-language publications in…
Jame DiBiasio is a Hong Kong-based American journalist who has recently published his debut novel, Gaijin Cowgirl (Crime Wave Press, 2013), and who keeps an Asian-themed blog at Asia Hacks….
Ezra Kyrill Erker is an author, journalist and traveler from Berlin, Germany, who calls Bangkok, the Thai capital, his adoptive home. In this interview he talks about his latest novel Salaryman Unbound, his fascination…
Josh Shulman is a Japan expert and enthusiast who has lived, worked, and traveled in Japan for over a decade. Born and raised in Tokyo before moving with his family…
It is amazing the jewels you can find in the book section of Chatuchak Market in Bangkok. Some time ago I bought an old issue of National Geographic which was…
The House of Kanze by Nobuko Albery (Century Publishing, 1985) is a historical novel set amidst the spelndour and corruption of the Ashihaga Shogunate in 14th century Japan. The book…
I recently wrote that people tend to remember the years of their lives by the disasters that took place during specific years. Thus, for many, 2011 is the year of the…
The Secret Sun (1992) by Fred Hiatt is an easy to read Japanese-themed thriller. It is about Japan’s conspiracy to build an A-bomb. Although it’s a fictional novel, in a…
Blood Heat (1988) is a 383-page medical thriller by Steve Pieczenik, the writer’s second novel. The first one, The Mind Palace, was published in 1987 and is about Soviet psychiatry….
