Chanpon

Young journalist Maho is living in San Francisco, updating a bilingual website, Mahonicle. Besides Japanese, she wries in English, "covering mostly Japan-related issues for those narrow-minded Bay Area readers who still think Japan's just a country of sushi and easy chicks from the kinky culture." Her English-language article archives include polite, polished coverage of cross-cultural issues with a West Coast focus: a profile of a gay Japanese man in SF's famous Castro district, a profile of Larry Ellison's Japanese gardener, and some coverage of Bay Area World War II internees.