Abstract Milton Atsushi Murayama was born on April 10, 1923 on Puukolii Plantation near Lahaina, Maui. As a young man, Murayama served as a Japanese translator in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, and after the war attended the University of Hawaii and Columbia University. From a very young age, Murayama dreamed of becoming a writer. However, he received little commercial success until 1975 when he self-published his debut novel All I Asking For Is My...