Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
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"Wendy Nelson Tokunaga - Author of Midori by Moonlight - www.WendyNelsonTokunaga.com"
Female
100 years old
San Francisco, California
United States
Last Login:
7/5/2008
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| General | Japan, learning Japanese, and Japanese pop culture, writing, publishing. | | Music | J-pop, enka, electronica, dance music, bossa nova, piano jazz, and much more. | | Movies | Two Days in Paris, The Lives of Others, most Woody Allen, Napoleon Dynamite, This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Dinner at Eight, most on Turner Classic Movies, Flirting with Disaster, A Hard Day's Night, A Thousand Clowns, Casablanca, the original Hairspray, etc. | | Television | Mad Men, 30 Rock, American Idol, The Kumars at No. 42, Sex and the City, Dinner for Five, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare, House Hunters International, MILF Island, etc. | | Books | Authors: Haruki Murakami, Junichiro Tanizaki, Amy Tan, Nick Hornby, Tom Perrotta, Lolly Winston, Melissa Bank, etc. |
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | San Francisco | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Writer |
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About me:
My debut novel, Midori By Moonlight, will come out on Sept 18! Exploring the theme of why some people feel the need to trade in their native culture for a new one, it's a comic novel of East meets West fusion that introduces readers to fresh-from-Japan Midori Saito, a kind of Japanese Bridget Jones who longs to be a pastry chef, and finds herself lost in translation in San Francisco as she searches for her American Dream and the perfect dessert.
I am also a singer (bossa nova, jazz, retro pop, Japanese music, etc.) and have a duo with my husband, Osaka-born Manabu "Stokemaster" Tokunaga called Star Jazzmin. I have been to Japan many times and enjoy visiting Harajuku, Shibuya, Daikanyama, Shimokitazawa, Jiyugaoka, and hot spots in Osaka. I speak okay Japanese, but it gets rusty because I don't get to use it too much! My husband and I speak mostly in English, but with a good Japanese phrase or word thrown in for that extra-something you just can't express in English!
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Who I'd like to meet:
Writers, readers, and those interested in Japan, studying the Japanese language, and Japanese pop culture.
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