Authors

Works at Dobunsha Publishers, editing college textbooks in the fields of nutrition, bio-technology and food science. In his spare time, he writes fiction and publishes literary translation. He is at work on an historical novel about a revolutionary samurai in medieval Japan.

Akutagawa Prize–winner and activist Shun Medoruma was born in Okinawa.

Author of over 100 mystery novels, is a designer, musician, and astrology writer. In 2009 Shimada received the prestigious Japan Mystery Literature Award in recognition of his life's work.

Speaks Japanese and Chinese fluently, having lived in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Taipei for a combined total of over thirty-five years. For fifteen years beginning in 1996, he was a senior executive at Studio Ghibli. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

An origami graphics unit founded in 2003, whose principals are Yosuke Jikuhara and Miki Takeda in Tokyo. It has been featured widely on TV, newspapers, and magazines in Japan taking a whole new approach, with the idea of making origami "More Pop!" 

Formerly fiction editor of Being A Broad, a magazine for foreign women living in Japan, now serves as fiction editor for the popular e-zine Literary Mama, and edits and publishes the literary magazine Yomimono. 

A university English teacher and translator living in Naha, Japan. His translations include A Rabbit’s Eyes by Haitani Kenjirō (2005) and Ichigensan—The Newcomer by David Zoppetti (2011).

Ted Goossen is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories and has translated many writers including Haruki Murakami.

The now-legendary company founded by Osamu Tezuka in 1968 to produce his own manga and anime.

Tomoka Shibasaki is a Japanese writer from Osaka. She has won the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and two of her works have been adapted for film.

Born and raised in Japan, now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has published twenty-two books on women’s and cross-cultural issues.

Co-author of Doing Business with Japanese Men and has published six other books and numerous articles, chapters, and essays on the topics of women, leadership, and international business. 

Taught Japanese at the college level and is an award-winning literary and commercial translator. 

Books include the newly edited version of his national bestseller, Essential Crazy Wisdom (Ten Speed Press), The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom (Harper San Francisco), Buddha's Nature (Bantam), and his most recent book Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again! (Stone Bridge Press). 

Edited Haiku Magazine from 1971 to 1976, and ran the literary From Here Press, which published titles by several well-known authors, including Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, and Ruth Stone.

An influential Chinese writer who enjoyed tremendous popularity throughout the late 1930s and 1940s. His work is now widely read in China and is a frequent source material for television and the stage.

Has worked for major publishing companies in Tokyo and New York and has been active as a consultant for nearly a hundred Japanese and American global firms, focusing on personnel management, staff training, and development of joint projects in cross-cultural environments.

Yuko Nagasaki is a Tokyo-based freelance illustrator. 

An associate professor of English at Western Connecticut State University and  author of Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories and When the Purple Mountain Burns. He is one of the foremost experts on (and translators of) the novels of Thomas Hardy.

In his retirement he wrote A Guide to Diplomatic Practice, now known as 'Satow's Guide to Diplomatic Practice' – this manual is widely used today, and has been updated several times by distinguished diplomats, notably Lord Gore-Booth.

Author of The Thirty Six Strategies of Ancient China and has worked as a corporate trainer and publicist in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Beijing.

An ordained minister, taught religion in Japan since 1972 and was an international adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine. He is author of Essentials of Shinto.

A business consultant, corporate trainer, coach, webinar leader and entrepreneur specializing in global business effectiveness for international corporations, transferees and global virtual teams. 

A Buddhist priest, ordained in the 750-year-old Jodoshinshu tradition of Japanese Buddhism. He is the author of three books in Japanese and is also a noted Japanese calligrapher.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928-1987) was an author and prolific translator of French literature, known for his translations of the Marquis de Sade and the French surrealists.

For half a century from Rashomon (1950) to Madadayo (1993), Teruyo Nogami stood by Akira Kurosawa as a script supervisor and principal assistant.

Founder and co-editor of MidnightEye.com, the world's leading English-language publication on contemporary Japanese cinema. His work has appeared in such magazines as Fangoria, Impact, Japan Magazine and Skrien.

Research interests include modern and contemporary Japanese literature (anti-naturalist movement circa 1910, parody, Russo-Japanese War literature, literary daughters, food in literature) and Japanese girls' manga. Her current research project concerns older women's humour in contemporary Japanese literature, film and theatre.

Toshio Ban joined Tezuka Productions in 1974 as one of Tezuka's assistants.

Her essays have most recently appeared in Lotus Petals in the Snow: Voices of Canadian Buddhist Women (Sumeru, 2016), Lion’s Roar, and Tricycle Magazine.

A well-known Bay Area media personality with numerous broadcasting awards. Tokuda wrote two children's books with Richard Hall: Shiro in Love and Humphrey the Whale, which remains in print after more than 20 years.

An American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. He was an English and Latin language tutor for Tarō Kusakabe, a young samurai  from the province of Echizen (part of modern Fukui).

Winifred Bird is a writer, translator, lifelong cook, and lover of plants both wild and domesticated. 

Widely acclaimed films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), Floating Weeds (1959), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).

One of Japan's best known science-fiction directors and best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise.