More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

The editors of the new e-book Deep Kyoto Walks subscribe to one of my basic tenets, ie that the best way to learn about somewhere is...

With the increasing popularity of tablet computers and dedicated ebook readers the range of reading material available at a lower cost...

Japan in the 21st Century Environment, Economy, Society Pradyumna P. Karan University Press of Kentucky 416pp ISBN 978-0813191188 This is a ...

Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan William Wayne Farris University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824820304 333 pp Farris's...

An Invitation to Kagura Hidden gem of the Traditional Japanese Performing Arts. David Petersen ISBN 978-1-84753-006-6 362pp When I first bec...

Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami Ed. John Breen & Mark Teeuwen Univ. of Hawaii Press ISBN 0-8248-2363-x 368pp The word shinto is very...

Gods' Music - The Japanese Folk Theatre of Iwami Kagura Terence Lancashire Florian Noetzel 351 pp. ISBN 3-7959-0890-6 As is obvious by r...

Daily Life in Japan at the time of the Samurai, 1185 - 1603 Louis Frederic Translated by Eileen M. Lowe Tuttle Books ISBN 0-804813496-...

Japan, A view from the Bath Scott Clarke 184pp University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0834816579 Anthropologists must sometimes en...

Splendid Monarchy Power & Pageantry in Modern Japan T. Fujitani University of California Press ISBN 0-520-21371-8 305 pp The Meiji Resto...

A Genealogy of 'Japanese' self-images. Eiji Oguma Trans Pacific Press ISBN 1-876843-04-7 435pp Of all the myths propagated about Jap...

Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945. The age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu. John S. Brownlee UBC Press ISBN 9 780774806459...

Japrocksampler: How the post-war Japanese blew their minds on rock n' roll Julian Cope Bloomsbury Press ISBN 978-0-7475-8945-7 Books abo...

Japanese Plants: know them and use them Betty W. Richards Anne Kaneko Shufunotomo Co. Ltd ISBN4-07-975121-4 228pp This book is small enough ...

Modern Japanese Thought ed. Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-58810-3 403pp I read books about Japan so that I c...

Enduring Identities: The guise of Shinto in contemporary Japan. John K. Nelson University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0-8248-2259-5 32...