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Revisiting Summer of the Big Bachi Twenty Years Later

2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of Naomi Hirahara’s novel, Summer of the Big Bachi. This kic…

Lauren Rise Masuda • Dec. 30, 2024

authors fiction interviews Mas Arai (fictitious character) Mas Arai mystery series mystery fiction Naomi Hirahara novels Summer of the Big Bachi (book) writers

Summer of the Big Bachi: Naomi Hirahara’s Japanese American Mystery

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Naomi Hirahara’s first Mas Arai novel, Summer of the Big B…

Darryl Mori • Dec. 30, 2024

book reviews fiction Mas Arai (fictitious character) Mas Arai mystery series mystery fiction Naomi Hirahara novels reviews

Pulling a Fast one? E.V. Cunningham and the Masuto Mysteries

Some time ago, I published a column in Nichi Bei News discussing writer Len Zinberg, who wrote a sh…

Greg Robinson • Dec. 5, 2024

20th century authors fiction Howard Melvin Fast mystery fiction novels writers

Gene Oishi—A Memoir of a Friend

Gene Oishi’s passing draws the curtain on a unique Japanese American life. I will leave it to other…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 15, 2024

biographies fiction Fox Drum Bepop (book) Gene Oishi In Search of Hiroshi (book) memoirs memory novels remembrance scholars World War II

Never Been Better: Author Leanne Toshiko Simpson Uses Romantic Comedy to Explore Mental Illness

TORONTO — Author Leanne Toshiko Simpson’s offbeat and big-hearted romantic comedy, Never Been Bette…

Kelly Fleck • May 14, 2024

authors comedy fiction generational trauma generations Japanese Canadians Leanne Toshiko Simpson literature mental health Never Been Better (book) novels romances writers Yonsei

Author Leslie Shimotakahara's Novels Offer Literary Passageways to Places in the Past

TORONTO — Award-winning author Leslie Shimotakahara transports readers to another time and place th…

Kelly Fleck • April 30, 2024

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Part 41 (Part 1) Interview with Christine Piper, an author of Japanese and Australian descent — The story behind the creation of her novel "After Dark"

The novel "After Darkness: A Japanese Doctor at Loveday Camp, Australia" (originally published in…

Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 22, 2023

After Darkness (book) Australia authors Christine Piper fiction Imperial Japanese Army Japan Loveday internment camp Manshu Detachment 731 novels World War II camps writers

The Heart of Naomi Hirahara’s Evergreen

Naomi Hirahara is a Japanese American writer and journalist known for her award-winning mystery n…

Lincoln Der • Aug. 22, 2023

Evergreen (book) fiction Japantowns mystery fiction Naomi Hirahara novels

Excerpt from Atomweight — Prologue

I took another sip of the too sweet cocktail in front of me. “Surprise me,” I had said to the mid…

Emi Sasagawa • May 11, 2023

Atomweight (book) Emi Sasagawa fiction novels

Interview with Emi Sasagawa, Author of Atomweight

Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has be…

John Endo Greenaway • May 10, 2023

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