Betty Jean Lifton was an American author and advocate who developed a passion for Japanese culture and folklore while living in Japan with her husband, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, in the early 1960s. She authored several children's books exploring Japanese themes, including 'Kap the Kappa' and 'Joji and the Dragon'. In collaboration with photographer Eikoh Hosoe, she produced a series of photobooks such as 'A Dog's Guide to Tokyo', 'A Place Called Hiroshima', and 'Return to Hiroshima'. Later in her career, she became an adoption writer, counselor, and adoptee-rights advocate, publishing her memoirs 'Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter' in 1975. She lived in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Wellfleet, Cape Cod before her death in 2010.[1]
