Romulus Hillsborough

Romulus Hillsborough is a native Californian who lived in Japan for over fifteen years. Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, he has worked on the editorial staff of a Japanese weekly magazine in Tokyo and as a U.S. correspondent for the Japanese press. He spent seven years researching and writing his first book, Ryoma: Life of a Renaissance Samurai (Ridgeback Press, 1999), the only biographical novel about Sakamoto Ryoma in English. Hillsborough's second book, Samurai Sketches: From the Bloody Final Years of the Shogun, was published in 2001; his newest work is Shinsengumi: Shogun's Last Samurai Corps (2005). Hillsborough currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and son.