Founder of the Japan Amarant Society, widow of theatre impresario Donald Albery and previously married to Japanese Studies scholar Ivan Morris, Nobuko Albery chronicles her life since Albery's death in 1988, focusing on her public and private battles connected with advancing the cause and well-being of menopausal women in Japan--inspired to do so by her own experiences and a fundamental belief in the advantages to be gained from HRT therapy, which was largely unavailable in Japan at the time. In the process, the narrative offers some remarkable insights into the cross-cultural minefield that arises when someone "returns home" (to Japan) after more than thirty years of living abroad.
