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A Conversation with Emi Yagi about When the Museum is Closed
Images of When the Museum is Closed by Penguin Random House In July 2025, I had the great joy of meeting with author Emi Yagi in Tokyo to...
Yuki Tejima
Aug 1819 min read


Author & Translator Interview: Erika Kobayashi and Brian Bergstrom
(This post was originally written in July 2023) In July 2022, I sat down for an online interview with Japanese author Erika Kobayashi and...
Yuki Tejima
Apr 1322 min read


Educating Myself in Kyoto
(This post was originally written in October 2023.) I’ve been in Kyoto for a few days. In pre-pandemic times, I would hop on the...
Yuki Tejima
Apr 113 min read


Everybody's Story
(This post was first written in 2023.) As I write this blog post, I wonder, how many of you reading this are also writers? I don’t...
Yuki Tejima
Apr 105 min read
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