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Tokyo Stories - A Funny Novel on Life in Japan!
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Christine Miki is a Tokyo-based journalist specializing in economics and finance. Before embarking on a writing career, she worked as an embassy official and as a marketing executive in Japan. Tokyo Stories is her first novel, set amidst some of Tokyo's most well-known modern landmarks including Roppongi Hills and the Park Hyatt Tokyo.
The idea for her book came one day, over dinner, after listening to a friend brag about the latest in a string of unbelievable romantic escapades and realizing that so many similarly crazy tales of life in Tokyo were just begging to be written. "There are so many interesting characters in Tokyo and 'Tokyo Stories' was inspired by some of the quirkiest I've ever encountered in my fifteen years in Japan," she explained.
Although none of the stories are true, she says that many readers will find a part of themselves or someone they know in her stories. "So many people have come up to me after reading the book and said that they were reminded of a friend," she revealed. "And, since the characters are fictional, either we're all imagining the same persons or there must be a lot of people like the characters in Tokyo Stories."
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- Christine Cunanan
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