About the Author
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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."
When not on her Macintosh, Christine paints in oils and watercolors at her studio at the foothills of Mount Fuji. She recently held her first month-long solo exhibition of large oil paintings in Tokyo, with great success. She also travels extensively, and she says she lives half of her life in a suitcase.
She hopes to eventually run an art school for children and a B&B outside a village in the hills of Umbria one day.
Christine Miki's recommendations
for Tokyo's best dining and shopping spots.
See Christine Miki's recommended reading for 2004
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