Dr. Junichi Saga
JUNICHI SAGA, is a graduate of Keio University in medicine, with a practice in Tsuchiura, Ibaragi Prefecture-the focus of this book. He began taping his older patients' reminiscences about fifteen years ago when he realized what a wealth of information their memories contained. Though this is his first book to appear in English, he has published numerous works of local history and ecology, as well as several novels. He won the NHK Prize for a documentary work on the Japanese immigrants in...See more
JUNICHI SAGA, is a graduate of Keio University in medicine, with a practice in Tsuchiura, Ibaragi Prefecture-the focus of this book. He began taping his older patients' reminiscences about fifteen years ago when he realized what a wealth of information their memories contained. Though this is his first book to appear in English, he has published numerous works of local history and ecology, as well as several novels. He won the NHK Prize for a documentary work on the Japanese immigrants in Hawaii. He has published numerous works of local history and ecology, two of which are available in English: Memories of Wind and Waves and Confessions of a Yakuza See less
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