by Rebecca Copeland | Apr 9, 2025 | Memories
“It is just too long and it will be too expensive and it will kill off the market,” Peter wrote to me about my manuscript. His tone was brutal, and so was his prediction. No writer wants to “kill off” their market. At long last Peter and I had secured a contract with... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Jan 17, 2024 | Japanese Culture
Colors, Croissants, and Translation Choices I successfully defended my dissertation, Uno Chiyo: The Woman and the Writer, in December 1985. A few months later, I was on my way back to Tokyo, where I would spend the next five years at International Christian... 
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 | Dec 20, 2023 | Japanese Culture
In the Slender Margin Between the Real and the Unreal Naoko and I stood outside Uno Chiyo’s apartment door. My stomach lurched. Desperate to shore up my flagging confidence, I listed all I had done to prepare for this interview. I had read Uno’s works. Gone over...
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