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Kimura, Rei
Description :
Rei Kimura is a lawyer with a passion for writing about unique events and personalities. She has adopted an interesting style of creating stories around true events and the lives of real people in a number of her books, believing that is the best way of making hidden historical events and people come alive for 21st century readers.
With this objective in mind, Rei has touched on historical events like the horrific sinking of the Awa Maru and the Kamikaze pilots of World War II and woven them into touching stories of the people who lived and died through these events.
Then there are stories of courage, love and rejection beautifully portrayed in “Butterfly In the Wind” a story of the concubine of Townsend Harris, first American consul to Japan, set against the colorful and turbulent era of the Black Ships. This book has touched the hearts of many and been translated into languages from Spanish, Polish, Russian, Dutch to Thai, Hindi, Indonesian, Marathi.
Rei's writing also touches on interesting issues like that raised in “Japanese Magnolia” a book based on the true story of two men, a samurai and a peasant who dared to cross two forbidden areas in feudal Japan, that of homosexuality and a class society “so sharply defined it cut like a knife.”
Other controversial stories she has written include “Japanese Rose” a book which asked the question was there ever a Japanese female kamikaze pilot in the Second World War?
But it's not all history and culture, she also writes on contemporary events like “Aum Shinrikyo-Japan’s Unholy Sect” an expose of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Occasionally, her love for animals and sense of humor surfaces in this very heart warming and delightful story of a rogue Pomeranian dog, “My Name is Eric,” a complete departure from Rei’s normal story lines but nevertheless, a refreshing one!
Kimura considers her writing as part of the perennial quest for truth, challenge and fulfillment. Her books have been translated into various Asian and European languages and widely read all over the world.
Apart from being a lawyer, Rei Kimura is also a qualified freelance journalist and is associated with the Australian News Syndicate.
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A Note from Ichiyo
Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2220135
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 133
Behind every face is a life and a story…This is the story of Ichiyo Higuchi whose face is now immortalized in the 5,000 yen Japanese legal tender, it is truly a testimony of one woman’s determination, courage and faith to defy all odds, even from bey
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Alberto Fujimori of Peru
Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2450532
Category : True Stories & Memoirs
Pages : 149
Fujimori represents the determination and diligence of Japanese or Asian migrants in their host countries and he is a bridge between two cultures, East and West.
This book also takes an interesting look at the personal and political life of Presiden
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Aum Shinrikyo - Japan’s Unholy Sect
Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2220203
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 116
The cult of Aum Shinrikyo.
On the 26th of March 1995, sarin gas was released in a Tokyo subway station crammed with morning rush hour commuters and all hell broke loose.
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Awa Maru - Titanic of Japan
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Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2220074
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 119
This is the gripping story of the Awa Maru, the little known Titanic of Japan, for the first time told in this book.
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Butterfly in the Wind
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Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2220128
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 124
This is the true story of the tragic life of Okichi Saito who became the pawn to placate Townsend Harris, the first American Consul to Japan in the turbulent mid 1800's....
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Japanese Magnolia
Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2220104
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 221
The true forbidden love story of two men, a samurai and a peasant in Edo Japan.
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Japanese Orchid
Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2450488
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 177
Can a successful and powerful entrepreneur with an impeccable reputation and moving in the highest circles of New York be born out of wedlock to a Japanese prostitute during the Second World War?
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Japanese Rose
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Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2220067
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 148
The kamikaze pilots or “Winds of God” were created in 1945, during Japan’s twilight year of the Second World War. The world looked upon this monstrous creation of “human bombs” with disbelief but the young patriotic men of Japan who signed up for the
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Like A Willow Tree
Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 978616-2220197
Category : Books on Thailand
Pages : 197
Hanako Ishigaki was just 9 years old when her father decided to uproot the family from traditional and beautiful Kyoto and migrate to Hawaii.
This story is told against a gripping backdrop of war and the horrors and humiliations of the Japanese Amer
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Skirts in the Boardroom
Author : Kimura, Rei
ISBN : 9786162450846
Category : Books on Asia
Pages : 251
Three young women arrived in Tokyo from the small towns of rural Japan with nothing but a burning ambition and the vague knowledge that somehow, their lives would be different. With so many odds stacked against them, what were the chances that their
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A Tale of Hope and Redemption |
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