Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

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.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.