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Namako

An American couple move to Japan, ostensibly to be near the wife's mother, in fact to save their marriage after his infidelity. He is Scottish, she is half-Japanese and they have four children. The story is narrated by the eldest, Ellen, 10.

History of the Japanese of Tacoma

Translation of Issei history Tacoma nihonjin hattenshi ( History of the Devlopment of the Tacoma Japanese) published in 1917 by the Tacoma Japanese Association.

Talking to the Dead and Other Stories

In this collection of interrelated stories are tales spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guide to a world at once ancient and modern, through the minefields of adolescence, betrayal, madness, racism, and found and failed beliefs, where the…

Envoy's Pen Saves Lives, Costs Future

The biography of Chiune Sugihara

Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year

Describes six-year-old Ernie Wong's preparations, at home and in school, for the Chinese New Year celebrations and his first public performance of the lion dance. On the Chinese New Year, six-year-old Ernie will perform his first Lion Dance. An…

Tales from the Bamboo Grove

A collection of Japanese folk tales recalled from the author's childhood.