{"id":9912,"date":"2009-12-17T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2009-12-17T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T12:29:56","slug":"jet-alum-liz-sheffield-interviews-%e2%80%9clove-in-translation%e2%80%9d-author-wendy-nelson-tokunaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/17\/jet-alum-liz-sheffield-interviews-%e2%80%9clove-in-translation%e2%80%9d-author-wendy-nelson-tokunaga\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alum Liz Sheffield interviews \u201cLove In Translation\u201d author Wendy Nelson Tokunaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9914 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/LoveInTranslation-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LoveInTranslation\" width=\"218\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/LoveInTranslation-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/LoveInTranslation.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Author, manuscript consultant and blogger <strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/motherlogue.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liz Sheffield<\/a> (Hokkaio-ken, Sapporo-shi, 1993-95)<\/strong> has a great post on her blog <a href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Motherlogue<\/strong><\/a> about a new book out titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendytokunaga.com\/pages\/Default.aspx?tabid=75\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Midori by Moonlight<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendytokunaga.com\/pages\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wendy Nelson Tokunaga<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s Liz&#8217;s explanation of the background:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>About a year ago I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendytokunaga.com\/pages\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wendy Nelson Tokunaga&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> debut novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendytokunaga.com\/pages\/Default.aspx?tabid=75\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Midori by Moonlight<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>I was thrilled to see that she had a new release out in November &#8212; <strong><em>Love In Translation<\/em><\/strong>. Both of her books cover topics near and dear to my heart: Japanese culture, the expatriate experience and cross-cultural romance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Love In Translation <\/em>intrigued me because the story is told from the perspective of a foreign woman living in Japan, something with which I have personal experience! As I read the book, I had a wonderful sense of being reconnected to my own experiences in Japan \u2014 from the visits to a <em>ryokan<\/em> (Japanese hotel) to eating delicious shu-cream to blunders in communication through a foreign language. I was also reminded of what I learned about myself thanks to the joy and hardship of navigating a culture so different from my own.<\/p>\n<p>In my interview with her at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherlogue.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Motherlogue<\/a>, Wendy offers insight about her experiences in Japan, about publishing two novels and combining her vocal talents with her husband&#8217;s musical talents to create an <em>enka<\/em> song (&#8220;<strong>Nozomi No Hoshi<\/strong>&#8220;) as the soundtrack for <em>Love In Translation<\/em>. Details about how to request a copy of &#8220;Nozomi No Hoshi&#8221; on CD, are included in the interview.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the<a href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/16\/interview-with-wendy-nelson-tokunaga\/\" target=\"_blank\"> interview with Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, author of \u201c<em>Love in Translation.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read an <a href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/05\/interview-with-suzanne-kamata\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with fellow JET alum Suzanne Kamata<\/a> about Suzanne\u2019s book <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/61-9781932279337-2\" target=\"_blank\">Call Me Okaasan:\u00a0 Adventures in Multicultural Mothering<\/a>. <\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Follow Motherlogue here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author, manuscript consultant and blogger Liz Sheffield (Hokkaio-ken, Sapporo-shi, 1993-95) has a great post on her blog Motherlogue about a new book out titled Midori by Moonlight by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s Liz&#8217;s explanation of the background: About a year ago I read Wendy Nelson Tokunaga&#8217;s debut novel, Midori by Moonlight. 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