I certainly didn't have a three-book plan or a 10-year plan when I worked on the first book.
General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books.
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.