When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

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 may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

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