ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
“Ill at the Plague Festival essay for Orion
“The Age of Apricot,” essay for Orion
“Throwing Out the Saints,” essay for Zyzzyva
“My Mother in There,” essay for The Cut
“Thirteen to One: New Stories for an Age of Disaster,” essay for Emergence Magazine
“Noodle Soup Ties Me to the New Year,” essay for The Guardian
“Drive, He Said,” book review for Alta Magazine
“In ‘Memorial Drive,’ hard lessons on race, family and love from a U.S. poet laureate,” review for the San Francisco Chronicle
“Is There A Better Way for the Left to Talk About Christianity,” Lit Hub
“The Sacred Ritual of Meals with My Mother,” Elle
“On Reading Basho with My Ten-Year-Old,” The Paris Review
“Food, Faith and Farming in the Apocalypse: The coronavirus pandemic and the urban-rural divide,” for Salon
“What Two Imaginary Cats Tells Us About How We Are (and How We’re Different),” for Lit Hub
“Color Therapy,” for Ploughshares
“Thrilling ‘City of Girls’ Is Vintage Elizabeth Gilbert,” review for the San Francisco Chronicle
“Destination of the Year: Japan is the Most Underrated Destination For Gorgeous Fall Foliage–Here’s Where to See It,” for Travel and Leisure
“Japan’s Isolation 2.0,” book review for Public Books
“‘Memoirs of a Polar Bear, by Yoko Towada,'” book review for the San Francisco Chronicle
“On Innocence, Internment and Resistance with an Open Heart,” essay for Lit Hub
“‘Monterey Bay,'” by Lindsay Hatton,'” book review for the San Francisco Chronicle
“Discovering the Henro: Taking the Thousand Year Old Japanese Pilgrimage by Car,” travel article for Via Corsa
“Visiting the Toyota Factory in Japan,” travel article for Via Corsa
“Our Fairy Tales Ourselves: Storytelling from East to West,“ essay for LitHub
“On the Autobahn,” travel commentary for Via Corsa
“In Daniel Sada’s ticklish ‘One out of Two, ‘ twins raise questions about self and identity, Book Review,” book review for The Los Angeles Times
“The Japanese Toilet Takes a Bow: A Personal History,” essay for The Rumpus
“Life After Nuclear War, Book Review,” for the San Francisco Chronicle
“As Independence Vote Approaches, A Spirited Novel About The Scottish Experience” book review for NPR
“Let It Stop: Disney’s Frozen,” essay for The Morning News
“Memories, Washed Away,” op-ed for The New York Times
“Letter from a Japanese Crematorium,” essay for Agni
“Japan: The Reactors and the Temple” op-ed for The New Yorker Blog
“A Time to Run,” article for the National Geographic
“How Women in Japan Are Coping with the Disaster,” article for Glamour (June 2011)
“What Americans Don’t Understand About Weight Loss,” essay for Salon
“Japan’s Distinctly Un-American Brand of Heroism” op-ed for Salon
“Head Over Heels for Boys Over Flowers,” essay for NPR
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