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 In this post, I will review An American Diary of a Japanese girl by   Yone Noguchi . It is worth noting that the real author of this book is not a Japanese girl, but an American Japanese writer named   Yone Noguchi . I'm stressing this because I didn't know it when I started reading and it is definitely a relevant piece of information. Moreover, this book is not a diary at all, but rather a work of pure fiction.  This 'autobiography' is also the first work in English by a Japanese writer.  Known in the West as Yone Noguchi, his real name was Yonejeiro Noguchi and he wrote both in English and Japanese. Noguchi had an interesting life to say the least, but we shall talk about it some other time because today the focus shall me on this book. This is a historical book, more than a hundred  years old.  Published in 1902, this book was originally marked as an autobiography written by a young Japanese  girl named Morning glory. This book is availa...