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

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.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

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

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.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

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.