Mayumi Tsutakawa
Mayumi Tsutakawa is an arts writer and editor who often speaks and writes about the history of Japanese Americans including her family’s long history in Washington State. She was formerly head of grants for organizations at the Washington State Arts Commission and currently serves as an Asian film programmer for SIFF. Mayumi co-edited several multicultural anthologies, including They Painted from their Hearts: Pioneer Asian American Artists. (Photo credit: Humanities Washington)
“Long Take”: newly translated book of essays by Akira Kurosawa offers a personal view...
Hilarious comments from the sets during film production, private thoughts about great movie directors around the world, opinions about the Japanese movie-going public, and...
Contemporary Japanese fiction by women writers reveals uncommon directions
A glamorous overweight chef is accused and convicted of murdering her wealthy older lovers. Mixed race adoptees and their friends reunite after some have...
A new translation introduces readers to “Kappa,” a novella by Japanese short story master...
A new translation of Kappa, a novella by arguably Japan’s greatest short story writer, Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892 – 1927), has been released. It was...
My brother Deems: Not just the bridge, but the river itself
Several years ago, I was at an airport in Washington, D.C., returning from an arts conference, sitting on an awful chair, when I heard...
What? There’s already a fiction book about the pandemic?
Earlier this summer, when I discovered the book, A Beginning at the End, by Bay Area Chinese American science fiction writer Mike Chen, I...
A new science fiction anthology indicates the growth and wealth of stories by international...
“There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
The now-famous quote by the celebrated and deeply talented writer Octavia E. Butler (1947...
Yukio Mishima’s exquisite books mirrored a deeply emotional inner life
Two books:
Star by Yukio Mishima, New Directions Books, 2019, translated by Sam Bett (originally published in Japan, 1961)
Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima,...
Ted Chiang offers science fiction as a doorway to possible futures
Ted Chiang’s Exhalation: Stories is a new book of short stories from the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others (2002), which...
South Korean teachers compare arts teaching methods with Washington state counterparts
Seven arts teachers and administrators representing the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service (KACES), a national government agency of South Korea, visited Seattle in...
Honouliuli Gulch Camp site reveals the lives of Japanese Americans imprisoned in Hawai’i
This updated version of the article printed in the International Examiner published on August 15, 2018, includes slight revisions provided by sources.
As I travel...
