Women Against The RAJ
Women Against the Raj; the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, is the history of the women's unit of the Indian National Army, fighting for Indian independence from Britain during World War II. Most of the the recruits were teenagers from Malayan rubber plantations who had never seen India, yet volunteered to fight and possibly die to liberate India ...
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The Scent of Sake
A 19th century Japanese woman who overcomes tremendous obstacles to build a sake empire and a family dynasty at a time when women were forbidden to do business. Coming in February, 2009!
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The Indian National Army and Japan
This is a reprint of Jungle Alliance; Japan and the Indian National Army, published in 1971 by the Asia/Pacific Press in Singapore. The study traces the origins of the Indian National Army in the imagination of Iwaichi Fujiwara, a young Japanese intelligence officer, and the relationship between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Indian National Army ...
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My interest in Japan stems from my childhood in Honolulu, at a time when Japanese-Americans were the largest ethnic group there. My interest in India dates from classes in Indian history in graduate school at Harvard. I have spent over ten years in Japan and over three in India researching historical topics that intrigue me ...