The best books set in Japan Explore postwar Nagasaki, go on road trip with a cat, and meet Japanese mythological creatures in these five books that take place in Japan Wednesday 6 January 2021 ...

Best books about Japan to read before you go. Novels, memoirs, films and TV series provide cultural context to enrich the visitor experience in Japan.

The best sections of his book are such frolicsome ones as those in which he describes the passing fads in Japanese suicides (belly-ripping, jumping into volcanoes, drowning).

Those files and his Scots honesty make this book the best on Japan since his own The Japanese Enemy (TIME, May 25). Thesis on Guilt. The book, paradoxically, is sensational.

Books Books: Japan through a literary kaleidoscope. Richard Nathan's study is as much about the country as its writing. In "Kaleidoscope Japan," author Richard Nathan delivers a playful mix of the ...

Among the first Japanese picture books to reach U.S. shores was a series of keepsake volumes from the 1880s featuring traditional tales such as “Momotaro, or Little Peachling” and “The Hare ...