Rika Kayama: Finding satisfaction in being ourselves

People | CLOSE-UP Dec 6, 2009

Rika Kayama: Finding satisfaction in being ourselves

by Eriko Arita

Psychiatrist Rika Kayama is an outspoken doctor specializing in mental illness, a best-selling writer and a popular social commentator. Her latest book, "Shigamitsukanai Ikikata" ("A Way of Life in Which You Don't Cling to Anything"), has sold 422,000 copies since it was published in July. In ...

Susan Schmidt: Honored U.S. beacon for Japan

People | CLOSE-UP Nov 1, 2009

Susan Schmidt: Honored U.S. beacon for Japan

by Tomoko Otake

Susan Schmidt is a former editor at the University of Tokyo Press who spent 20 years living and raising a family in Japan up until the mid-1990s. She is now executive director of the U.S.-based, 1,500-member Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese — ...