Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

Cinnamon Beach is now available as an audiobook! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

"A must-listen about love, loss, and family." rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

MFA ’17 alum Suzanne Kamata’s short story collection, “River of Dolls and Other Stories” was recently published by Penguin Books SEA. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @shikokusue.bsky.social

U.S. Is Still the World’s Police—Whether It Likes It or Not open.substack.com/pub/jiofranc...

"Cinnamon Beach by Suzanne Kamata seems to be ostensibly a normal romantic novel but there is an aspect that makes it unique. It glues all colours of humanity together. Almost all the families in her narrative are of mixed heritage or multiracial." borderlessjournal.com/2024/07/15/a...

50% OFF The Baseball Widow plus two free audiobooks! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Summer reading! books.bookfunnel.com/bookinmyhand...

Yes, Japan has the best toilets in the world. The bathtubs are not too bad, either. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...

"Kamata's authentic glimpse into Japanese life is appealing and her prose deftly exposes her characters' flaws while evoking empathy. THE BASEBALL WIDOW is a moving read of great emotional depth." -- The Japan Times a.co/d/hr4MjLZ

“Through Japan’s history, disabilities and illnesses were seen as something shameful to be kept hidden,” Ms. Ichikawa said. “When pregnant women passed by people with severe disabilities, they were told to show a mirror to ward off evil spirits.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...

Excited to find this fantastic review of THE VILLAGE IN THE MIST by Sachiko Kashiwaba and translated by my friend Avery Fischer Udagawa (and published by Yonder Books) in The New York Times! You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/b...

Excited to find this fantastic review of THE VILLAGE IN THE MIST by Sachiko Kashiwaba and translated by my friend Avery Fischer Udagawa (and published by Yonder Books) in The New York Times! You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/b...

Congrats to crime fiction writer Lea O'Harra on the publication of her new book, SAYONARA, MY SWEET, a standalone set in 1980s Japan!

I recommend this book! medium.com/japonica-pub...

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Happy World Book Day!

“Kamata delicately weaves heartbreak with humor throughout the story, and authentically captures the complex inner lives of women at various stages navigating wildly different obstacles. A touching tale that balances love, loss, and family drama." —KIRKUS REVIEWS Cinnamon Beach a.co/d/9bvhXs6

Proud to have a poem about Rwanda in the latest edition of NOON! noonpoetry.com/wp-content/u...

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In Japan, the Radicalness of Yamamoto Taro Meets the Moment thediplomat.com/2025/03/in-j...

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Inspired by Japanese Dolls and a Celebration of Girls - booksbywomen.org/inspired-by-...

Check out these books for #mg and #ya readers (including mine)! books.bookfunnel.com/ComingofAge2...

How a Canadian missionary found spiritual transformation in Shikoku www.japantimes.co.jp/community/20...

A fun meme from my publisher.

A love story from history & for our time: a passion defying illegal unions, a bond born of deeply shared political convictions, & a family facing separation, torn loyalties, terrible choices, & fascist threats--in an American concentration camp. @chireviewpress.bsky.social Preorder: a.co/d/b56VZF5.

I wrote an essay on the inspiration for my story “Down the Mountain.” borderlessjournal.com/2025/02/14/f...

Inspired by Japanese Dolls and a Celebration of Girls - booksbywomen.org/inspired-by-...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

Are you a winter person? Do you have strategies to get through the winter? In today’s episode,  a health psychologist joins us to explain how to embrace a positive wintertime mindset. Listen here :headphones:: https://buff.ly/3Mut28J

Coming July 8 2025! The true story of mixed-race families in America's WWII concentration camps--and of one mother's fraught choices & conflicting loyalties, the upheaval & violence that followed, & her quest to keep her family safe. Now for preorder @ a.co/d/b56VZF5.

A new review of my short story collection! writersinkyoto.com/2025/01/27/f...

A good excuse to buy a donut! wp.me/p9r9Tz-3Uy

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

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