Profile

Marie Ueda, who worked for the The Guardian newspaper o f London, England, has written the following books:

Testimony of the Twentieth Century: Before and After the Berlin Wall, (1996)
Life is a Wonderful Experience: Autobiography of a Photojournalist (2018)
PORTUGAL: Its History, People, and the Carnation Revolution (2020)
A Cat Who Became American: Immigrant Cat Named Kinoko, a true story…(2021)
JAPAN 1945: Atomic bomb, Emperor Hirohito, General MacArthur (2022)
Life with the Wall: Berlin 1961 – 1989
A Memoir of Chanticleer: My life with Louis A. Botto

Career as a Photojournalist

Her career began as a photojournalist while living in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1974, a revolution erupted in Portugal, during which time she worked for The Guardian newspaper of London, England. After moving to the United States and residing in San Francisco, California, she encountered a different kind of revolution: the ‘gay revolution.’ She continued to work for The Guardian and documented developments of gay human rights movements. During the 1980s, she became a travelogue photographer and traveled the world extensively. Her travel photo archives are an extensive collection of high-quality photographs of many parts of the world—national symbols, historical monuments, popular travel destinations, including the “seven wonders of the world,” etc.

Career as an author

While visiting Berlin (West) in 1984, she saw a different kind of Germany: “two Germanys”—divided countries and divided people. West Berlin was entirely surrounded by the so-called Berlin Wall, built by Communist Russia (USSR) with border guards who would shoot any escapees from Communist East Germany. Berliners were like living inside a cage. As long as the nation and its people were divided, Second World War never ended for the German people, unlike Japan. This living condition of the post-Nazism in Germany gave the author a profound impact; she began to think of the reality of ‘war and people.’ This was a turning point in her career: she became a book author. As a photojournalist and reporter, she had interviewed hundreds of people who lived through during the Nazi regime and what happened to them. The book title is Testimony of the Twentieth Century: Before and After the Berlin Wall. 

Her Books

Life Is a Wonderful Experience:

Autobiography of a Photojournalist

This book is a life journey of a woman who accomplished some of the most desirable professional careers – photojournalist for The Guardian newspaper of London, travelogue photographer who traveled the world extensively, and currently became a non-fiction author. It is a personal memoir of one individual who made “American dream came true”. Born and raised in Japan her memory goes back to August 1945 when Emperor Hirohito made surrender speech and how World War II ended. Being influenced by General MacArthur’s postwar reform, an emancipation of Japanese women, she became independent and began traveling and exploring the world with her own eyes. (Rated fiver-star at Amazon.com)

Japan 1945:

Atomic Bomb, Emperor Hirohito and MacArthur

War history is written the victors, hearsay. In this book the vanquished Japanese perspective is presented by a Japanese journalist and history investigator. During World War II there atomic bomb production were taking place by three military governments – Germany, the United States and Japan – the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “Made in Germany”. The author exposes there were many “missing gaps, bizarre twists and ironies during 1945, which were utterly untouched by any historians since World War ended nearly 80 years ago. “Truth is a stranger than fiction”, yes indeed, being a multi-lingual history-researcher and an insider of the first nation which experienced nuclear atomic blast, Marie Ueda exclaims reality of nuclear arsenal world conflicts in coming future.

A Cat Who Became American:

Immigrant Cat Named Kinoko, A True Story

“My life as a Cat”. Kinoko was born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, migrated to the United States with his owner Marie Ueda, and became an American cat-citizen. The episodes narrate his entire life ventures including him using “human toilet” by self-taught. The story is funny, adventurous, hilarious, humorous, and lovable relationship with the owner is well expressed. It catches mind of wide audience of cat-lovers of all walks of life.

Portugal:

Its history, people, and the Carnation Revolution

Though Portugal is in Europe, it is a relatively unknown nation to the world. Portuguese people were the first maritime explores before Spain; they had once a “Golden

Colonial Empire” which had lasted for 800 years. This book explores such “Forgotten Portugal” by the author, Rise and Fall of Portugal which ended in 1974, the so-called the Carnation Revolution. The book also covers a folk culture tradition called “fado” music, as well as Secrets of Fatima, which was a UFO incidents.

Testimony of the Twentieth Century:

Before & After the Berlin Wall

As a consequence of Second World War caused by Nazi Germany, Germany was divided into two countries – West Germany and East Germany – and the postwar German people were to live with two different political ideologies side by side: Communism and Capitalism. This is an interview book – question & answer format – of a collection of voices of all walks of life who lived during the Nazi regime. Each interview is presented with interviewee’s photo which was taken by the author. This project was conducted between 1988 – 1995, before and after the fall of Berlin Wall and Communist Soviet Russia. The people she interviewed were a variety of nationals: Germans, Europeans, Jews, Americans, and Japanese. Since most the interviewees are now deceased, the book has a tremendous historical value for scholars, academics, history professors, and university students. It is now a collector’s item.
  • The book was published in 1996, by M.I. Production, San Francisco.
    Large format 8.5 & 10 inches, 469 pages, weighs 3.5 pounds. Out of print. If interested, contact the author.

Contact:

Email: marie_ueda2025@yahoo.com
Website: www.marie-ueda.com
Tel: 520-297-1968 (USA)