Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

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.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

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

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.