Reddit reviews Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering

In contrast, there's this woman...

>In your book Gadget Girl, the main character has a disability and is half-Japanese, what inspired you to create such a character?

>My daughter, who is half-Japanese, has cerebral palsy and is deaf. When she was very young I realized that there were few fun books with main characters who had disabilities. I wanted to write books that might empower and entertain her, and books that would help others to understand that people with disabilities are more than their disabilities. They have hopes, fears, dreams, etc. like everybody else. They fall in love, they get mad, they travel.

https://www.accessible-japan.com/an-interview-with-author-suzanne-kamata

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2015/02/07/travel/kansai-proves-barrier-travel

Suzanne Kamata author of:

Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs

Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering

https://www.amazon.com/Call-Okaasan-Adventures-Multicultural-Mothering/dp/1932279334

found out about her from:

The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan

https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Bridge-Fiction-Expatriates-Literary-ebook/dp/B004BLKEUA

Donald Richie along with Helio and Carlos Gracie and maybe Christopher Doyle on a charitable day are the only modern non-Japanese people to contribute on a cultural level that I can think of off the top of my head.