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Jul.07.2011
(Originally posted at Girlfriends Book Club.)
Memoirist, teacher, blogger and advice columnist Patricia V. Davis is the author of the new, fun, funny and practical self-help book, The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know, published by Bonneville Books. One of the...
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Apr.13.2011
It took a while, but it's finally here -- yay! My e-book, Marriage in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband is now available on Kindle! This book showcases interviews with 14 Western women who speak candidly about the challenges in making cross-cultural marriages work, both inside and...
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Feb.11.2010
Love in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband - Part 7 Patricia has lived in Japan for the past ten years. Originally from France, she brings a lot of interesting insights about cross-cultural marriage and the philosophy one needs to practice in adjusting to living in a foreign culture...
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Jan.16.2010
So far the interviews on Love in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband have been of Western women married to Japanese men who have been kind enough to share the joys and challenges of this still rather uncommon cross-cultural pairing. Today, in this two-part interview we meet Pamela (born and...
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Dec.17.2009
Love in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband - Part 5 Australian Sophie Shimizu, like me, has never understood why "Prince Charming" is always depicted as a big, brawny type and never found herself attracted to Caucasian men. In this interview she tells how she met a cute...
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Dec.06.2009
Gina Collia-Suzuki is a writer, artist, and art historian. She writes both nonfiction and fiction, the former focusing on 18th century Japanese woodblock prints and the latter being satirical or historical in nature. She is married to native Japanese Ryoma Collia-Suzuki. The couple currently...
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Oct.17.2009
Reading Your Writing Out Loud Today I’m preparing for my reading tonight at LitQuake’s LitCrawl. I’ll be reading from my forthcoming novel, Love in Translation, and I’m excited to be a part of this great literary tradition in San Francisco. We only have 5-6 minutes to read and this makes total...
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Sep.04.2009
New People J-Pop Mall in San Francisco's Japantown I visited the new New People mall in San Francisco’s Japantown a few days after its grand opening the weekend of August 16. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a sucker for Japantown’s, Little Tokyo’s, Japanese malls, stores, urants, etc....
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Jul.29.2009
Chirashi Roundup You can give me twenty lashes with a wet udon noodle if you wish, but I sure find it difficult to keep up with writing a blog with any amount of consistency. So I’m trying kind of a different format, which may allow me to post with a little more frequency.
I ran across this...
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Jun.03.2009
Oh! A Mystery of Mono no Aware - by Todd Shimoda Todd Shimoda’s latest novel, Oh!: A Mystery of Mono no Aware, published by Chin Music Press, is a fascinating and compelling book that weaves themes of both traditional and modern Japanese culture. You’ll be drawn in by Shimoda’s spare but...
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May.07.2009
Crazy for Kanji
When I first started studying Japanese years ago, I became immersed in learning the written language, from hiragana and katakana (the phonetic language systems) to the actual characters—the kanji. And Celeste Duncan, the protagonist in my forthcoming novel, Love in Translation...
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Apr.25.2009
Saltwater Buddha - by Jaimal Yogis
You don’t have to be a surfer or a Buddhist to enjoy Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea. This coming-of-age memoir by San Francisco-based journalist Jaimal Yogis, with its crisp, clean prose and delightful self-deprecating tone, will...
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Apr.24.2009
SMAP Star Arrested for Public Indecency The Japan Times reports that Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, member of the long-time J-pop group SMAP, was arrested by police after being found naked and drunk in Hinokicho Park around 3:00 am. The park is close by the 34-year-old’s Roppongi apartment in the la-dee-...
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Apr.21.2009
Japan's Biggest Export It’s official. Japan is no longer the dominant exporter of electronics and cars, but of its popular culture. Despite the economic downturn, conventions promoting Japanese pop culture are making more money than ever. Ronald Kelts, author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop...
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Apr.18.2009
The cover art for LOVE IN TRANSLATION is here and I couldn't be more pleased. The book comes out on November 24, 2009. Yay!
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About Wendy
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga is the author of the novels Love in Translation and Midori by Moonlight, both published by St. Martin's Press. Her self-published novel, No Kidding was a winner in Writer's Digest's Best Self-Published Book Awards in 2002. Her latest...
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