Amy Yamada
Amy Yamada 山田 詠美 | |
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| Born | Yamada Futaba (山田双葉) February 2, 1959 Tokyo, Japan |
| Pen name | Yamada Eimi (山田詠美) |
| Occupation | Novelist, short-story writer, essayist |
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Amy Yamada (山田 詠美, Yamada Eimi; born February 2, 1959) is a contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial love and marriage. Her debut and subsequent popular success in the 1990s was a part of Japan's hip-hop and Black culture boom. While she is most known for her stories of complicated and messy romantic love, she also writes on the daily minutiae of life (slice-of-life), child-raising, and bullying.