by Rebecca Copeland | Jan 3, 2024 | Japanese Culture
How the “Truth”-Seeking Scholar Became the Story Meeting celebrated author Uno Chiyo on June 21, 1984 (which incidentally or ironically was my fourth wedding anniversary) was a thrill. The thrills didn’t stop with that meeting, though. Four months later, I was in...
by Rebecca Copeland | Nov 22, 2023 | Japanese Culture
Part One: Don’t Take No for an Answer! “You shouldn’t work on a living writer,” some advised me as I struggled to find the subject for my dissertation. A living writer, they argued, was still producing works, their oeuvre yet in progress. I guess they reasoned that...
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