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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 5

You can get the wrong idea from TV police shows. Officers discharge their weapons multiple times in every episode, when the truth is, most of ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 4

It’s past midnight and someone’s turning the key to my double-lock on my front door. I know who it is and even Shippo ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 3

My cheeks are still a bit flushed from the beer from the Far Bar, but I make sure that I’m fully sober before getting ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 2

“You’ll have to leave the premises,” I tell my best friend Nay Pram as I direct people away from the dead body covered in ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 1

“I just don’t get it,” I say to my partner, Johnny Mayhew, in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center. We are both on ...

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As You Like It

Chapter Twelve—Get Back in There

Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were adopted into families that had no ...

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As You Like It

Chapter Eleven—Hiroshima World

We have only forty-eight hours to bring Hiroshima World to Manhattan. I take that back. Now forty-seven hours. We’re turning our apartment—well, our ...

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As You Like It

Chapter Ten—Kappa Power

I saw my first homeless person in Japan when I was visiting Tokyo. Actually there were a whole group of them on the lower level ...

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As You Like It

Chapter Nine—Clipped

In Japanese folktales, old women are sometimes cast as the “bad guys.” You see it in “Tongue-Cut Sparrow,” in which an elderly lady clips the ...

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An “Immersion” Into Terminal Island Nikkei Lives

As an oral historian, I have always been addicted to reading obituaries, especially those relating to the World War II Japanese American experience. For example ...