Dear everyone,

You are cordially invited to MEET THE AUTHOR: KAREN HILL ANTON on September 30, 2022 (Friday), 19:00 - 20:30.

Date: September 30, 2022 (Friday)

Time:19:00 - 20:30 (Japan Time)

Place: The Parliament, 1st Floor, Temple University, Japan Campus

Moderator: Professor William Swinton

Admission: FREE (First twenty people through the door receive free copies)

Karen Hill Anton, wrote the columns "Crossing Cultures" for The Japan Times and "Another Look" for Chunichi Shimbun for fifteen years. She lectures internationally on her experience of cross-cultural adaptation, and raising four bilingual, bicultural children. Karen served on the Temple University Japan Board of Governors, the Jun Ashida Educational Foundation, and was invited to serve on the Internationalization and Society Advisory Council of Prime Ministers Keizō Obuchi and Ryutaro Hashimoto.

Karen has studied Japanese calligraphy for 25 years, attaining second-degree mastery. She is the author of the widely acclaimed memoir The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, winner of the Memoir Magazine 2022 Grand Prize. Her novel A Thousand Graces is scheduled for publication January 2023. Originally from New York City, Karen Hill Anton has lived with her husband William Anton in rural Shizuoka since 1975.

For more information, please contact: tujresearch@tuj.temple.edu