 Books on Japan: Index
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Travel Guides: Japan - Lonely Planet Guides, Rough Guides, Insight Guides, Time Out, AA Books, Dave Barry, Kodansha, Donald Richie etc
Travel Guides: Japan #2 - Ryokan, Country Inns, Lonely Planet Guides, Maps, Tokyo, Kyoto
Japanese Fiction - Banana Yoshimoto, Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Yasunari Kawabata, Natsuo Kirino, Susanna Jones, Arthur Golden, Isaac Adamson etc
Japanese Fiction #2 - Akimitsu Takagi, Peter Tasker, Yukio Mishima, Natsume Soseki, Junichiro Tanazaki, Genicihiro Takahashi, Peter Carey, Kenzo Kitakata etc
Japanese Fiction #3 - Kenzaburo Oe, Shusaku Endo, Susan Barker, Yasunari Kawabata, Shuhei Fujisawa etc
Japanese Fiction #4 - Kenji Nakagami, Katie Kitamura, Senji Kuroi, Hideo Okubo, Abigail Friedman
Japanese Fiction #5 - Yasuyuki Kasai, Yukio Mishima, Suzanne Kamata, Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
Japanese Children's Books - Yoriko Tsutsui, Dick Cole, Allen Say, Jennifer Reed, Pamela Turner, and many classic folk tales
An Introduction to Japanese Crime Fiction - Matsumoto Seicho, Kirino Natsuo, Miyuki Miyabe, Akimitsu Takagi etc
Amazon Japan Shop - Anime, Books, DVDs and Manga from Amazon
Japanese History Books - Edward Seidensticker, Isabella Bird, Lafcadio Hearn, Katsu Kokichi, John S. Brownlee, Sterling & Peggy Seagrave, Frederick L. Schodt, Donald Keene etc
Japanese History Books #2 - F. G. Notehelfer, Francis Hall, Isaac Titsingh, Carl Peter Thunberg, Timon Screech
Books on Japanese Politics & Society - Ian Buruma, Alex Kerr, Ivan P. Hall, Karel van Wolferen, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Norma Field, Robert Whiting, David E. Kaplan & Alec Dubro etc
Books on Japanese Politics & Society #2 - Donald Richie, Boye Lafayette de Mente, Mikiso Hane, Ruth Benedict, David Matsumoto, Anne Allison, Laurie Anne Freeman, Inazo Nitobe etc
Books on Japanese Politics & Society #3 - Chie Nakane, Mark Schreiber, Tomothy Craig, Merry White, Mike Millard, Karin Muller, Shintaro Ishihara, Takashi Inoguchi etc
Books on Japanese Politics & Society #4 - Ian Buruma, Tomoko Yamazaki, Veronica Chambers
Books on Japanese Food - Lonely Planet, Eric Gower, Harumi Kurihara, Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, Mari Fujii, Theodore C. Bestor, Robb Satterwhite, Hiroko Shimbo etc
Japanese Language Books - Learning Japanese, Kanji, Grammar, Gender, Manga, Literature, Phrasebooks, Particles etc
Japanese Art & Design - Japanese Gardens, Photography, The Arts, Modern Architecture, History of Art, Araki, Isamu Noguchi, Wabi Sabi, Crafts
Japanese Art & Design #2 - Hiroshige, Bonsai, Comic Art, Ceramics, Rings, Japanese Stage, Shibori, RackGaki, Game Design
Japanese Architecture - Japanese Architecture & Building Design, Hotel Design, Castles, Japanese Homes, Working With Small Spaces, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Fumihiko Maki
Japanese Martial Arts - Japanese Martial Arts - aikido, judo, karate, kendo, stick-fighting, swords
Gay & Lesbian Japan - Gay & Lesbian Japan - sexuality and gender
Japan Nature Books - Japanese Plants, Wild Flowers, Bonsai etc
Japanese Manga - Hayao Miyazaki, Monkey Punch, Osamu Tezuka, Frederik L. Schodt, Akira Toriyama, Masamune Shirow, Takeshi Maekawa, Keiji Nakazawa etc
Japanese Manga #2 - Hayao Miyazaki, Hideshi Hino, Osamu Tezuka, Frederik L. Schodt, Osamu Tezuka, Yozaburo Kanari & Fumiya Sato, Hajime Yadate, Yutaka Nanten & Cain Yuga, Risu Akizuki etc
Japanese Manga #3 - Paul Gravett, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Haruno Nagatomo, Gosho Aoyama, Gerry Poulos, Keiichi Sigsawa, Frank Miller etc
Japanese Animation - Hayao Miyazaki, Barefoot Gen, Appleseed, Yu-gi-oh, Brigadoon, Samurai Girl, Devil Man, and more
Other Books on Japan - Shinto, Baseball, Zen, Shiatsu, Dogs, Edwin Reischauer, New Japanese Film, Hello Kitty, Mark Schilling etc
Other Books on Japan #2 - Haiku, Tea, Great Japanese Movies, Seitai, Haiku
Other Books on Japan #3 - Business, Tea, Cinema, Taiko, Music, Sudoku, Kakuro
Japanese Martial Arts - Swords, Sticks, Karate, Judo, Aikido, and lots of mayhem
The Music of Japan - Traditional, J-Pop, Okinawa, Kodo Drummers, Kina Shoukichi & Champloose, Taiko, Nenes, Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki
An Interview with David Mitchell - author of Cloud Atlas, Ghostwritten & Number 9 Dream
A Selection of Japan-related Short Stories - Court Merrigan, Matthew Walsh
A Novel Set in Tokyo: Fuji-Rama - by PJ
A Selection of Japan Sex Books & Erotica - Pink Samurai, Hentai, Japan's Sex Trade, Amy Yamada, Araki, Erotic Manga, Nicholas Bornoff, Peter Constantine
An Interview with Joan Sinclair - author of Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs
Lafcadio Hearn - Lafcadio Hearn aka Koizumi Yakumo (1850-1904) was the foremost Western literary interpreter of Meiji-era Japan
Battle Angel Alita Vols 1-4 - the classic manga series by Yukito Kishiro
Battle Angel Alita Vols 5-9 - the finale of Yukito Kishiro's manga masterpiece
Things Japanese - A collection of short stories (Volume 1) by Stefan Chiarantano and T. Graham Westerlund
Stimulating Conversation:
Thinking Critically about Current Issues
- A new English language textbook by Greg Goodmacher
A Selection of Books on Korea - Travel Guides, Learning Korean, Korean Food & Cuisine
A Selection of Books on Iran - Travel Guides, Learning Farsi, Persian Food & Cuisine
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