Katsuichi, Honda

Honda Katsuichi is a journalist and writer who worked for many years at the "Asahi Shinbun", Japan's leading newspaper. He is the author of more than thirty works in Japanese, including books on the Ainu, the Nanjing Massacre, and Japanese society. Kyoko Selden is Senior Lecturerin the Department of Modern Languages at Cornell University. Her translations include Kayano Shigeru's, "Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir" (1994). David L. Howell is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.