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Yukari Watanabe (渡辺由佳里) is an author/essayist in Japanese language, and she is also a popular book reviewer of English-language books in the Japan market. She was born in Japan, and has lived in 5 countries and visited more than 60 countries. She now resides in near Boston, USA since 1990's.

Author of "Read the United States with Bestsellers"『ベストセラーで読み解く現代アメリカ』(2020)、"500 best books written in English" 『ジャンル別洋書ベスト500』for the Japanese market (publishing date: July 26, 2013). "Completely New 500 plus best books written in English"『新・ジャンル別洋書ベスト500プラス』(published Sep. 2022). And many more...

Her blog and twitter feed are read by Japanese book-lovers as well as Japanese publishers which are looking for titles to acquire the rights.
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Yukari Watanabe Just write something everyday. Walk or run in the woods for more than 1 hour alone.
Yukari Watanabe "The best books written in English for Japanese readers". It was supposed to be the new edition of "The best 500 books written in English for Japanese…more"The best books written in English for Japanese readers". It was supposed to be the new edition of "The best 500 books written in English for Japanese readers" published in 2013 but it's becoming a completely new book. I'm busy choosing books from every genre right now. (less)
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どうせなら、楽しく生きよう

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トランプがはじめた21世紀の南北戦争: アメリカ大統領...

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ゆるく、自由に、そして有意義に

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ノーティアーズ

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神たちの誤算

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Read the United States with...

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妄想に取り憑かれる人々

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21世紀イチオシ洋書 文芸小説篇

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アメリカはいつも夢見ている

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2016 Presidential Race

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George Eliot
“It is one of the secrets in that change of mental poise which has been fitly named conversion, that to many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a peculiar influence, subduing them into receptiveness..”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

Charlotte Brontë
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Gabrielle Zevin
“What's everyone talking about?"
"The end of The Iliad."
"That's the best part," Marx said.
"Why is it the best part?" Sadie asked.
"Because it's perfect," Marx said. "'Tamer of horses' is an honest profession. The lines mean that one doesn't have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin
“The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures."

"That's an oversimplification of the issue."

"The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world don't you? I'm terrified of that world and I don't want to live in a that world, and as a mixed race person, I literally don't exist in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Korea Town Los Angeles and as any mixed race person will tell you-- to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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