The Miko by American thriller writer Eric Van Lustbader is a 700-page thriller of revenge, honour, love, ninjas, and samurais. According to its front cover, the book is “the supershock…
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Published in Japanese more than twenty years ago, in 1989, before the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, The Japan That Can Say No was officially translated in…
Debbi Michiko Florence is a third-generation Japanese-American author of children’s books. She was born in San Francisco in California. In this interview, Debbi talks about her books, her heritage, reading…
Hailed by Black Belt as “an acknowledged authority on the art,” Stephen K. Hayes is considered to be the “father of American ninjutsu.” And it all started with the story…
When, in 1998, Natsuo Kirino published Out (or Auto, in Japanese), her third novel, the Western world was slow to react. Although the novel was welcomed with great reviews by…
Eric A. Kimmel is an American award-winning children’s books author born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He has published more than 50 books for children, many of which have…
Eric A. Kimmel is an American award-winning children’s books author born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He has published more than 50 books for children, many of which have…
Eric A. Kimmel is an American award-winning children’s books author born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He has published more than 50 books for children, many of which have…
In 1997, Eric A. Kimmel, an American children’s book author, went to Japan at the invitation of a select few international schools that operate there and was so impressed with…
There are so many books out there that it’s impossible to read all the good ones in just one lifetime. This also raises another problem: that of rereading favourite books….
