Cultural Region/Japanese
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Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami
$17.95 Read moreHow did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A “fascinating” look at the “business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience” (The… [more below]
- Author: Karashima, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1593765894
- Language: English
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Neon Lights in Tokyo: An Insider’s Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Drink and Explore
$26.99 Add to cartAn insider’s guide to the best places to eat, drink and explore.
Tokyo is a city of almost 40 million people. A metropolis so densely packed with cultures and sub-cultures, with fashions and trends, w- Series: Curious Travel Guides
- Author: Groundwater, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1741177014
- Language: English
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Oishii: The History of Sushi
$30.00 Read moreSushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foods–but they are also the most widely misunderstood. Oishii: The History of Sushi reveals that sus… [more below]
- Author: Rath, Eric C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1789143837
- Language: English
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The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
$29.95 Read more- Author: Addiss, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1645471217
- Language: English
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Contemporary Kogin-Zashi: Modern Sashiko Beyond Filling in the Gaps
$26.95 Read moreMaster the art of Kogin-zashi stitching
Kogin-zashi is an iconic form of sashiko that stands on its own apart from Hitomezashi and Moyouzashi as both functional and breathtakingly beautiful. Based on
- Author: Bowlsby, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1644031876
- Language: English
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Tattered Kimonos in Japan: Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II
$34.95 Read moreExamines Japan’s war generation–Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict
Since John Hersey’s Hiroshima–the cl- Series: War, Memory, and Culture
- Author: Rand, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 817321772
- Language: English
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The Samurai
$16.95 Read moreIn 1613, four low-ranking Japanese samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico to bargain for trading rights with the West in exchange for a Catholic crusade through Japan. Their ard… [more below]
- Author: Endo, Shusaku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227901
- Language: English
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Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
$29.95 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
The remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education–now known- Author: Hotta, Eri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0674238230
- Language: English
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Three Assassins
$27.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick
From Kotaro Isaka, the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane thriller Three Assassins, set in Tokyo’s cri- Author: Isaka, Kotaro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1419763857
- Language: English
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
$17.00 Add to cartThese translated poems were written by two women of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D.
The poems speak intimately of their authors’ sexual longing, fulfillment and- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Komachi, Ono No
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729585
- Language: English
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Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago
$37.00 Read moreA comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan’s astonishing animals and plants–and the natural forces that have shaped them
This richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessibl- Author: Brazil, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691175063
- Language: English
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
$19.95 Add to cartOn April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refinerie
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352277
- Language: English
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The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition): A Hidden Inheritance
$50.00 Read moreThe definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller
Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when h- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374168288
- Language: English
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From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 Read moreA career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.
From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work- Author: Kogawa, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 077100513X
- Language: English
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The Vegan Guide to Tokyo: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Plant-Based Eats in Tokyo and Beyond
$19.95 Read moreTake a vegan tour of Tokyo with this guide to its neighborhoods and the best of their plant-based offerings.
From an early morning coffee to midday shopping for clothing before following the wafting s- Author: Terzuolo, Chiara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1922754196
- Language: English
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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
$35.00 Add to cartThis book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why … [more below]
- Author: Yanagi, Soetsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365209
- Language: English
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Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels #12: The First Samurai
$9.99 Read moreIt’s a samurai showdown as Team Geronimo follows the Pirate Cats to feudal Japan!
It’s feudal Japan of the first Tokugawa dynasty, and the Pirate Cats are trying to be assigned a specific fiefdom by t- Series: Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels #12
- Author: Stilton, Geronimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1597073857
- Language: English
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Japan by Rail: Includes Rail Route Guide and 30 City Guides
$26.95 Add to cartJapan is steeped in legend and myth, perhaps the greatest of which is the popular misconception that the country is simply too expensive to visit. The truth is that flights to Japan are cheaper than t… [more below]
- Author: Zarifeh, Ramsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: September 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1912716143
- Language: English
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140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
$17.99 Read moreOn the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armagedd… [more below]
- Author: Dean Barrett, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1635767520
- Language: English
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Japanese War Fantasy 1933: An Edited and Annotated Translation of Account of the Future Us-Japan War
$19.99 Read moreA bombshell dropped onto Honolulu docks in 1933–by ominous coincidence, on December 7. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Account of the Future US-Japan War. Unlike other popular w… [more below]
- Author: Fukunaga, Kyosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366467
- Language: English
