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Naomi Hirahara Holiday Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Written by Aiko Uwate, the wife of cook and radio broadcaster Matao Uwate, and Koichi Takeuchi, the president of TV Fan magazine, the second edition also includes Japanese cultural information. |
| | One of my favorite picture books is “Crow Boy,” Taro Yashima’s account of a small boy nicknamed Chibi in an old Japanese village in Kagoshima. |
| | (The father of the actor Mako, Yashima was imprisoned in Japan for his views critical of the country’s rising militarism.) His other books, which include the “Umbrella” (another Caldecott Honor book) and “Momo’s Kitten,” are also equally charming. |
| www.pacificcitizen.org /hi05hirahara.htm (1661 words) |
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