Background
Yoji Yamaguchi was born in 1963 in Kearny, New Jersey, United States.
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States
Duke University where Yoji Yamaguchi received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
The Johns Hopkins University where Yoji Yamaguchi received his Master of Arts degree.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
The University of Virginia where Yoji Yamaguchi received his Master of Arts degree.
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States
Duke University where Yoji Yamaguchi received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
The Johns Hopkins University where Yoji Yamaguchi received his Master of Arts degree.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
The University of Virginia where Yoji Yamaguchi received his Master of Arts degree.
(Set in a California town in the early part of the century...)
Set in a California town in the early part of the century, Face of a Stranger tells the story of Kikue and Shino, two Japanese picture brides who came to America in arranged marriages only to discover upon their arrival that they had been duped into lives of prostitution. Both women are jarred when they encounter Takashi Arai, a young migrant worker and indolent rake, certain that they recognize him as the bogus groom in the photograph used to deceive them. Even as they scheme to buy their freedom from their pimp, they begin plotting revenge against Arai with the help of Hana, a beautiful girl who might be insane, the hapless farmer Kogoro Doi and the unwitting Inadas, two zealous Christian converts.
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1995
(A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy provides...)
A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy provides a guide to the study of genealogy, or family history, through the use of historical documents, artifacts, and private records. Intended mainly for students who wish to trace their family roots, the book can be used by anyone interested in the lives of Japanese Americans throughout the years.
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1996
Yoji Yamaguchi was born in 1963 in Kearny, New Jersey, United States.
Yoji Yamaguchi began his studies in 1981 at Duke University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English magna cum laude in 1985. Then he went to the Johns Hopkins University and obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1986. Later he continued his studies at the University of Virginia where he got a Master of Arts degree in English in 1988.
Yoji Yamaguchi began his career after receiving his master's degree in 1988. He joined Pantheon Books as an assistant editor in June and worked till April 1994. Holding this position, he edited four-color illustrated books, anthologies, and other hardcover originals. Then he began working as an associate editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he remained till June 1997. Later on, Yamaguchi was for some time a freelance editor and copyeditor at Tuttle Publishing where he edited and copyedited English-language fiction and nonfiction titles. In December 1999 he began his long way with Zagat as the senior editor. His duties included editing and writing content covering restaurants, nightlife, and golf courses for zagat.com, managing book projects, and others.
He left Zagat in October 2011 and took the position of senior editor at Google where he created more than 1500 headlines and summaries for Google Maps and 20,000 reviews, produced a department newsletter, wrote training documents for a new content management tool, and created an intranet travel guide to Tokyo for Google employees. After more than three years with Google, he went to Audible, Inc. where he was a content editor and helped manage workflow for a team of contractors, copyedited and proofread 160 hours (more than 1.2 million words) of audio transcriptions, lead codifying style guidelines, created the proofreading team's internal wiki page, gave training on editorial and quality assurance best practices to transcribers and proofreaders, and assisted in initial data curation and analysis for project postmortem. In 2015-2016 he also was a freelance editor, copyeditor, and medical copyeditor.
In October 2016, Yoji Yamaguchi found employment at Medscape Education as an associate editor, the position he held till March 2019 when he became an associate scientific content manager.
He is also well-known as the author whose work appeared in venues such as T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Asahi Evening News, and zagat.com. His two books include Face of a Stranger (1995) and A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy (1996). Yoji Yamaguchi's first novel, Face of a Stranger, introduced him to critics as a strong new voice among the younger generation of American writers exploring issues of race, ethnicity, and identity. He set his novel in early twentieth-century California where newly-arrived Japanese immigrants often faced unexpected hardship and discrimination. In A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy, the author presented a comprehensive history of Japanese immigration to the United States, as well as instruction on genealogical research. This book is valuable not only for Japanese specific research but for more general genealogical work as well.
Yoji Yamaguchi is particularly known as an editor, copyeditor, and author. His work includes a great number of edited articles and written reviews, creation of headlines and summaries, etc.
In 1997 he received a Creative Artist Fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.
As the author, he became famous for his book Face of a Stranger which received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, and other reviewers.
(Set in a California town in the early part of the century...)
1995(A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy provides...)
1996
