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.

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

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

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.