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AWA MARU

The Japanese Titanic

The story of a red cross ship headed back to Japan with wouned when it was sunk by an American submarine.

REI KIMURA  is an award-winning Japanese lawyer- turned-writer with a passion for writing about unique events and personalities.

Her latest work, "Awa Maru-Titanic of Japan"is again the result of her interest in little known tragedies and events that should be highlighted and resurrected from anonymity.

This highly dramatic and controversial book tells the true story of one of World War II's most infamous moments when a hospital ship filled with 2,045 women, children and civilians traveling under safe passge, was torpedoed by an American submarine, killing almost everyone.

Her interest in controersy has led her to write about a very unique ex-president of Peru, alberto Fujimari, followed by an exposé about the Aum Shinrikyo sect responsible fo the sarin gas attack in a Tokyo subway in 1995.

Other works include the very touching story of Okichi Saito, the persecuted concubine of the first American Consul of Japan.

Ms. Kimura's works have been translated into a growing number of languages including Korean. Thai, Hindi, Marathi, Dutch, German, English and Spanish.

She currently lives in Tokyo, Japan from where she continue to write about unique people and events.