About Stone Bridge Press

The publisher, with his publisher.    Peter Goodman now lives in Albany, California, with his wife, Catherine, and two sons. Publisher and editor-in-chief Peter Goodman lived in Tokyo for ten years, where he worked as an editor for English-language publishers Charles E. Tuttle and Kodansha International before returning to the United States in 1985. He has served as in-house editor, ghostwriter, translator, and project manager on nearly 200 Japan and Asia-related titles, including The Japanese Language, A Japanese Touch for Your Garden, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, Reading and Writing Chinese, Japanese Made Easy, New Fashion Japan, The Craft of the Japanese Sword, Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens, Kanji Pict-o-Graphix, and many more.    NEPOTISM DEPARTMENT We have posted samples of Catherine's California fiction, including the terrific story "Men Who Are Jerks."	Stone Bridge Press was established in Berkeley, California, in 1989. The press now has some 150 titles in print, covering such Japan-related areas as language, business, literature, manga, design, and culture. We're not tea-cult dilettantes or management gurus. We simply believe that Japan offers tremendous opportunities for re-examining Western values and for connecting with an emerging global culture increasingly centered on the Pacific Rim. What has fascinated so many people about Japan is its extraordinarily rich coherency, how tenets of art and spirituality are reflected in work and daily life. For 1,500 years Japanese culture has been evolving in a more or less straight line, absorbing foreign influences but remaining identifiably "Japanese." It's a culture that breeds both beauty and arrogance. It demands patience and erudition. And it gives the publisher delicious editorial challenges and an alluring design vocabulary: asymmetry, surface decoration, white space, boldness, delicacy, a quick splash of color. Awards received by Stone Bridge Press include the PEN West award for literature, the Japan-America Friendship Commission Prize from Columbia University, the HOW International Award, the International Typographic Design Award, the AIGA award for design, and the Benjamin Franklin Award for editorial and design excellence. Stone Bridge Press was featured in the esteemed East Bay Express of Berkeley, California. Insight into what goes on at SBP, the publishing biz, plus some ranting from the Publisher. It's been archived here.

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