Archive for the 'On Japan' Category

After hearing Oe speak at the University of California, Berkeley, I was inspired to write about this Nobelist in Literature for Japanophile.

My friendship with a Japanese-Peruvian made me curious about how the Japanese ended up in Peru. I explain that and much more in this piece, which first appeared in NACLA and was then reprinted in Japanophile.

While researching Japanese-Peruvians, I contemplated intriguing parallels between that group and American Jews. My essay on the topic appeared in the Jewish Magazine.