The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida is an #OwnVoices Japanese non-fiction memoir that is written to be accessible for young adult readers. Ms Uchida was a renown Japanese-American author of children’s books, and in this book, she shares what her life was like prior to hers and her family’s forced relocation to the Japanese internment…
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is an #OwnVoices Japanese non-fiction memoir. It is the autobiography of the author’s time spent in a Japanese Interment Camp during the Second World War, when she was seven years old, and follows her life after her family was released. One of the first things that I noticed…
The History of Nations: Japan is a non-fiction collection of academic essays outlining various events and eras throughout Japanese history. Each essay was written by a different scholar and the collection itself was edited by Clay Farris Naff. It begins with the Ancient era and works its way towards the modern era (c. 2003). One…
“Because the possibility for nuclear warfare exists, there is always, no matter how minor the conflict, the fear and threat that any war could lead to another nuclear holocaust.” White Flash/Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb is an #OwnVoices non-fiction Japanese poetry and prose collection with contributions from various Japanese women. The book…
Good morning, bibliophiles! It’s that lovely time of month again; the time where I share a master list of all the stacks that I read during the month of May. To be honest, May was a fantastic month for me because I read tons of stuff and most of it was fairly decent. It was…
Good morning, biblio-kitties, and otaku-fairies! Today, I decided to keep things simple and share with you the books that I’ve currently got my nose in. May has been a kick-ass month for me in terms of reading, and it seems that my currently reading stack is ever-evolving, which feels fantastic, but is also a bit…
A Place Called Hiroshima is a non-fiction, photographic journal of Hiroshima, Japan that outlines the lasting effects of the atomic bombing of the city, which occurred on 6th August 1945. It is written by Betty Jean Lifton with photographs taken by Eikoh Hosoe. This is a powerful book, despite being short with few words. What…