James Hoshino

James Hoshino is a writer of fiction and nonfiction concerned with truth, meaning, and the systems people build around themselves. His background spans more than two decades in strategy, organization, and tech, in environments that ranged from early-stage companies to large international organizations. His work has included extended conversations with leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, and futurists about decision-making and the future of institutions. He has practiced martial arts for more than thirty years, across traditions originating in Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, and the United States. Repeated cycles of injury and recovery have shaped his interest in discipline, identity, and the distance between what people believe and what reality permits. In The Honest Gaze, Hoshino turns to nonfiction to examine meaning, self-knowledge, and the contradictions of adult life. Hoshino also writes speculative fiction, including The Quiet Band, the first novel in The Silent Reach.