Japan (Baedeker Guide)
Ostfildern, Germany: Verlag Karl Baedeker, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. More
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Honeymoon To Nowhere
Australia: Anthos Publishing Company, 1985. First English Edition (Stated). Paperback. More
The Whale That Fell in Love With a Submarine
London: Pushkin Children's Books/Pushkin Press, 2015. Mika Provata-Carlone (illustrations). Softcover. A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body’s water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite; a...... More
Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Japan
New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds..... More
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship..... More
Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan
Richmond: Curzon Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 69. This is the first full-length presentation of Japan's pre-industrial fishing culture and a careful application of anthropological method to historical research. Shows that Tokugawa Japan's fishing villages were critical to Japan's economic development, being..... More
Japanese For Busy People I (Kana Version)
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1995. Second Printing. Softcover. More
Kitchen
London: Faber and Faber, 2018. Megan Backus (tr.). New Paperback Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When..... More
A Guide to Food Buying in Japan
Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1994. Softcover. More
Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan
Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. Translation edited by Conrad Totman. The Tokugawa period brought 250 years of stability to Japan. The shogun had national authority & the daimyo had regional authority. This represented a new unity in the feudal structure, with increasingly large bureaucracy to..... More
Clouds in the West: Lessons from the Martial Arts of Japan
Guilford: The Lyons Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
A Taste of Japan: Food Fact and Fable What the People Eat Customs and Etiquette
New York: Kodansha International Ltd, 1992. First Paperback Edition. Outsized Paperback. In this informative and gracefully written volume, renowned author and critic Donald Richie provides a lively examination of the popular foods of Japan, including not only well-established Western favorites like sushi, tempura, and sukiyaki, but more esoteric fare (like..... More
Japanese Pottery Old and New (The Detroit Institute of Arts October 8 - November 12, 1950)
Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952. William A. Bostick (catalogue design), Sylvester Luca (photos), Leo Teholiz (map of Japan). Second Edition. Paperback, Staple-Bound. Features map of Japan with indications of localities represented in exhibit. More
The United States & Japan
New York: The Viking Press/Compass Books, 1962. Revised Edition. Paperback. Compass Books no. C113. More
The Heike Story
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988. Kenkichi Sugimoto (illustrations). First Edition. Eighteenth Printing. Paperback. Translated by Fuki Wooyenaka Uramatsu. The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The..... More
Contemporary Japanese Workbook: An Introductory Workbook for Students of Japanese Volume 2 (with Audio CD)
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). Contemporary Japanese Workbook, Volume 2 was created as a supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students. A workbook which is best used for reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and learning materials introduced in the textbook, it is also..... More
The Waiting Years
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1981. First paperback edition. Paperback. Noma Prize winner. More
The Buddha Tree
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. A novel, translated from the Japanese. (Original title Bodaiju). More
Japan: A Short Cultural History (Revised Edition)
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, Sept. 27, 2014: If there’s room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965)..... More
Killing Commendatore: A Novel
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Chip Kidd (cover art). First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada..... More
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
London: Vintage Books, 2019. Noma Bar (cover illustration). Reissued Vintage Edition. 19th Printing. Paperback. A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running..... More
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
London: Vintage, 2003. Yuko Shimizu (cover art). First Printing. Paperback. Part of the special Vintage Japanese Classics series Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels. In a Tokyo suburb..... More
Underground
London: Vintage, 2013. Paperback. In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members..... More
Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590 - 1884
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Second Printing. Softcover. In the first book in English in almost half a century to study the full evolution of peasant protest in Japan, Bix looks at Japan's rural and urban uprisings over the course of its transition from late feudal to early capitalist..... More
"Tabibito" (The Traveler)
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1982. Galen Song (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Translated by L. Brown and R. Yoshida. This is Yukawa's autobiography of his early years, written in Japanese when he was fifty years old. It describes his family background and the education and experiences..... More
