Grace Buchele Mineta

Grace Buchele Mineta was born and raised in Texas, before moving to Ghana (and later Japan) in her teenage years. She lives in Tokyo with her husband, where she writes and blogs about interracial and intercultural relationships, daily life in Japan, and the life of a freelancer abroad on her blog, "Texan in Tokyo."

She graduated from Ursinus College in Pennsylvania and spent one year in Tokyo under the Boren Scholarship.

Her first book, "My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy" is an autobiographical comic book about her life in Tokyo.