News and Events

Joyce was in Barcelona the week of Sept. 25 for the launch of the Spanish edition of The Scent of Sake!!
Joyce held book signings in Beaverton, OR on June 7 at Kinokuniya Bookstore and in Seattle at Sake Nomi in conjunction with Elliott Bay Books on June 12.
BookPage.com is holding a The Scent of Sake sweepstakes! Click here to learn more or enter the contest.
Joyce was interviewed on Forbes.com. Click here to read the interview.
The Scent of Sake was published on February 17, 2009. Joyce Lebra signed copies at the Tattered Cover LoDo in Denver on March 18th and also at the Boulder Bookstore on March 19th. The novel is available at all Borders stores, many independent bookstores, and on Amazon.com.
Joyce is nearly finished writing a novel set in Hawai'i, Cane Fires, and will begin work on Durga's Sword, an historical novel about "India's Joan of Arc," The Rani of Jhansi, where she spent many months in India researching the story. She has also written a non-fiction work on the subject, The Rani of Jhansi; a Study in Female Heroism in India.
Joyce Lebra was in Singapore October 17th for the launch of her two books being published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: The Indian National Army and Japan, and Women Against the Raj; the Rani of Jhansi Regiment.

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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