Ever since Toshi saw Audrey Hepburn in ROMAN HOLIDAY at the age of nine, he has been obsessed with Americans. As he grows up and his involvement with various English-speaking men and women increases, he begins to examine Japan's guilt in the war.
Jane, a struggling filmmaker, is producing a piece sponsored by the American meat exporting business, while Akiko's child-craving husband is pressuring her to put some meat on her bones--literally.
A collection of essays portraying the changes brought to life in contemporary Asia by the introduction of modern marketing techniques. The authors pay particular attention to the influence of McDonald's restaurants on habits of dining and public behavior in the Far East.
From San Francisco to New York, from Chicago to the book's focal point, Los Angeles, this oral history of the Korean American community includes a wide spectrum of people and their stories: a half-Korean, half-African American man addresses the friction between blacks and Koreans; a gay activist tal ...
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Investment banker and Japan resident R. Taggart Murphy "draws on an impressive array of skills and experience in crafting his narrative of America's troubled economic relationships with its largest trading partner" (Clay Chandler, WASHINGTON POST). An intriguing, jargon-free analysis of the past 15 ...
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When a lonely, middle-aged Japanese-Canadian woman is implicated in the murder of a beautiful young girl in a small Ontario suburb, the whole community is forced to come to terms with its dark past. A first novel.