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Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection by Gregg Krech 9781611720792
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15Naikan is a Japanese word that means "inside looking" or "introspection." A more poetic translation is "seeing oneself with the mind's eye." Drawing on Eastern spiritual and psychological... -
Tabemasho! Let's Eat!: A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America by Gil Asakawa
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $11.09Tabemasho! Let's Eat! is a tasty look at how Japanese food has evolved in America from an exotic and mysterious--even "gross"--cuisine to the peak of culinary popularity, with sushi sold in... -
Tokyo Swindlers Ko Shinjo 9781611720846
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75A contemporary Japanese crime thriller unravels an intricate web of deception and greed, inspired by recent land-fraud scandals. Takumi, grieving the tragic loss of his family, is drawn into a... -
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie 9781933330235
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.00This provocative book is a tractate-a treatise-on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush" wherever it leads. Donald... -
The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me by Janet Pocorobba 9781611720464
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Two women. Two cultures. One music. The word sensei in Japanese literally means "one who came before," but that's not what Janet Pocorobba's teacher wanted to be called. She used her first name,... -
The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore by Tsuneichi Miyamoto
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.38Tsuneichi Miyamoto (1907-1981), a leading Japanese folklore scholar and rural advocate, walked 160,000 kilometers to conduct interviews and capture a dying way of life. This collection of photos,... -
What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism by Robert Schoen
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01"From the Sabbath to circumcision, from Hanukkah to the Holocaust, from bar mitzvah to bagel, how do Jewish religion, history, holidays, lifestyles, and culture make Jews different, and why is that... -
Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters by Hiroaki Sato
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising official, Kira Yoshinaka, during an... -
Foundations of Chinese Civilization: The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty (2697 BCE - 220 CE) by Jing Liu 9781611720273
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.28Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and... -
Discovering Yamaguchi Sake: A Taster’s Guide to Breweries, Culture, and Terrain by Jim Rion
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55This book is the first of its kind, a deep-dive into a single sake-producing region to highlight its delicious brews as well as the people, land, and culture behind them. Brewing in Yamaguchi - in... -
Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar: A Student's Guide to Correct Structures and Common Errors by Qin Xue Herzberg 9781933330891
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and... -
The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20"An elegiac prose celebration ...a classic in its genre."-Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His... -
The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross: Rescuing a Symbol of Peace from the Forces of Hate by T. K. Nakagaki 9781611720457
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20A remarkable cross-cultural history that rescues the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol, from its deployment by the forces of hate. The swastika has been used for over three thousand years by... -
The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry Kiyama 9781880656334
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15* Translator is well known Japan expert, with over 50K sales, incl. Manga! Manga! (Kodansha, 0870117521, 30,000 cps), America and the Four Japans (1-880656-06-X, 3,500 cps), and Dreamland Japan... -
The Way Forward: From Early Republic to People's Republic (1912-1949) by Jing Liu 9781611720709
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.27China entered the 20th century as an agrarian society, weakened under internal and external pressures. Revolutionaries came together to bring down the last imperial dynasty but quickly split over the... -
Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch by Rebecca Copeland
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.54Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the fusion of mountains with the solitary old woman... -
Japanese Cinema: A Personal Journey by Peter Cowie
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.44An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the world's greatest national cinemas,... -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 3: CROSSINGS by Ted Goossen
Booksplease Price: $21.54For readers who want to be introduced to exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women (Mieko Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and more).MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that... -
Exploring Kyoto, Revised Edition: On Foot in the Ancient Capital by Judith Clancy 9781611720419
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20This revised and updated edition of the Japan travel classic and cultural guide gets you wandering from downtown quarters to remote mountaintop temples and features expanded information on new... -
Kyoto Stories by Steve Alpert
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55An American student in 1970s Kyoto rambles among the city's beauties and traditions, learning as he goes.Don Ascher is a young American living in Kyoto in the 1970s. He is a student of Japanese. He... -
Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami 9781737625377
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.42Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and... -
Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan: A Journey by Train from Hokkaido to Kyushu by John Dougill 9781611720822
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.152023 FOREWORD INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR GOLD WINNER FOR TRAVELObservations on the people, culture, and history of Japan from a long-time resident riding the rails along the less-traveled western ... -
My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan by Tracy Franz
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95In February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An... -
China Smart: What You Don't Know, What You Need to Know - A Past & Present Guide to History, Culture, Society, Language by Larry Herzberg 9781611720501
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95How is China organized politically? What are the issues that young people face in today's China? What is China doing about its problem with pollution? Is the Chinese internet like our internet?... -
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic by Xu Xu 9781611720556
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of... -
Illusory Dwellings: Aesthetic Meditations in Kyoto Allen S. Weiss 9781611720839
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Essays on the nature, production, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, inspired by the author's experiences in Kyoto. Illusory Dwellings is not a guide concerning what to see... -
Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli by Steve Alpert
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $28.77This highly entertaining business memoir describes what it was like to work for Japan's premiere animation studio, Studio Ghibli, and its reigning genius Hayao Miyazaki. Steve Alpert, a... -
Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli by Steve Alpert 9781611720570
Booksplease Price: $20.99This highly entertaining business memoir describes what it was like to work for Japan's premiere animation studio, Studio Ghibli, and its reigning genius Hayao Miyazaki. Steve Alpert, a... -
The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito 9781737625322
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $33.05Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu PrizeCaught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor,... -
The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu PrizeCaught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor,... -
Sake Confidential: A Beyond-the-Basics Guide to Understanding, Tasting, Selection, and Enjoyment by John Gauntner 9781611720143
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.10With today's sake drinkers increasingly informed and adventurous, now is the time for a truly expert guide to take you deeper into appreciation of this complex but delightful Japanese beverage,... -
The Minamata Story: An EcoTragedy by Sean Michael Wilson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.80A powerful graphic novel /manga that tells the story of "Minamata disease," a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition caused by the Chisso chemical factory's careless release of methylmercury into... -
Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food . . . and More by David Watts Barton 9781611720631
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.46This friendly guide offers concise but detailed demystifications of more than 85 aspects of ancient and modern Japan. It can be read in sequence, or just dipped into, depending on the moment's need... -
Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels by Golnar Nabizadeh 9780367670795
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the discussion draws attention to the... -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 4: MUSIC by Ted Goossen 9781737625384
Booksplease Price: $20.90For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best... -
MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 6: HORROR by Ted Goossen 9798988688792
Booksplease Price: $20.19For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers.MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best... -
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories Tomoka Shibasaki 9798988688730
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75This masterful collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed Spring Garden, pushes the short story form to a new level. In this ground-breaking story collection, people come together to... -
Takaoka's Travels Tatsuhiko Shibusawa 9798988688709
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75Winner of the Yomiuri Prize and recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation. Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa-Japan's Italo Calvino-in this... -
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories by Tomoka Shibasaki 9798988688754
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $30.19This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level. In these stories of human connection in a contemporary,... -
Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami 9781737625353
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and...