Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.