“I thought if there was a way to walk across the ocean (back) to Japan, I would have done so.” This is how Haruno Tazawa remembers her early experience as a “picture bride” — the name for the more ...

This is the first in a series of articles on Korean emmigrants to shed new light on their role in helping Korea get where it is today. – ED. By Kang Hyun-kyung HONOLULU, Hawaii – Esther Kwon Arinaga’s ...

Haru, the Japanese protagonist of Mike Malaghan’s first novel, “Picture Bride,” arrives in the faraway exotic land of Honolulu with nothing but her dreams and a ...