Hopping vampires, seductive spirits and giant predatory tongues! Tsui Hark's A Chinese Ghost Story in 1987 gave many Western viewers their first taste of supernatural thrills, Oriental style. Yet the film was a comparatively late entry in a well-e...
Star Points: Connections Old and New is a mystery novel in which a young couple living in Japan stumbles upon a centuries old illusive quest to solve the mystery of the "Star Points." Along the way their lives show us aspects of Japanese culture, the...
Jimmy, an introspective and world-traveled social studies teacher, lives a quiet life working in a Minnesota high school. Having lived in Japan for several decades-a country that he considers his second home-he is caught off-guard by the ancient and ...