THOMAS NOAH WOOD
Thomas Noah Wood
Thomas Noah Wood is an author and educator from the American Midwest. His second home is Japan, where he is a professor of American Literature at a major Tokyo-area university. He has resided in Japan for four decades.
For 17 of those years, he was also a humor columnist for The Japan Times. No joke. He has written articles on travel and culture for numerous other Japan-based English publications. Fiction is his specialty. East and West romance is his typical target. Dark humor is his tool.
His non-fiction books in Japan include Japanese Made Funny, a catalogue of language errors (most of which he made himself), and Top Tokyo Sights, a guidebook for the city, and shelves of English education publications aimed at Japanese learners.
He likes:
Strong coffee. Chocolate. Airports and the joy of going anywhere. Not having to get up in the morning. Chocolate.
He hates:
Promoting himself. Politics. Crowds. Combing his hair.