"Sakura Branch" and "Oak Roots" - were and remain truly a masterpiece of domestic journalism. The amazing brightness and figurativeness of the language, the amazing depth of penetration into the original world of English and Japanese national culture captivate the reader and serve as the key to understanding foreign reality.In Japan, "Sakura Branch" became a bestseller, and the British, skeptical foreigners to understand their national character, "Roots of the Oak" was met very favorably.Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov is an international journalist, a writer who has worked for many years in China, Japan, and England. A new direction in domestic journalism is associated with his name - the creation of a psychological portrait of a foreign society.The author's creative credo: "to convince the reader that one cannot measure someone else's life by one's own arshin, one cannot rely on the usual system of values and criteria, because they are by no means universal, just like the grammatical norms of our native language.”In 1985, the author was awarded the USSR State Prize for these works. In 2010, the President of the Russian Federation awarded Vsevolod Ovchinnikov the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, fourth degree.