I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?