DavidAppleyard.com
Home English Language English Library Top News Links World Travel Tech News Update

East-West Timelines

English Humor
 

 Allhealthbooks.com   |   Economybooks.com   |   Lingualove.com   |   Newsciencebooks.com   |   Tolisto.com   |   Voyagershop.com   |   Japanbooks.net   |   Swedenbooks.net

Easy URL for this section: EyesOnJapan.com
Bookmark and Share
Japanbooks.net
http://uk.japanbooks.net http://jp.japanbooks.net http://ca.japanbooks.net http://us.japanbooks.net
Recent additions:
Is Japan giving up?
by Devin Stewart
My views of Japan
after a trip home

by Thomas Dillon
Immigration as a source
of renewal in Japan

by John Haffner
From the archive:
Who is that masked woman?
by Thomas Dillon

All articles by author >>

Top News Links: Japan
Asahi News
Daily Yomiuri
Debito.org
EuroBiz.jp
Fuji News Network
Japan-Guide.com
Japan Meteorological Agency
Japan Times
Japan Today
Kyodo News Agency
Mainichi Daily News
NHK World
Nikkei Net
Number One Shimbun
Trends in Japan
What Japan Thinks
Previous Main Menu Contact

Japan Bibliography

General Knowledge
Business & Politics
Defense
Education
Environment
Food
Health
History
Language
Law and Lawlessness
Martial Arts
Media & Censorship
Mindset & Cultural Heritage
Minorities & Non-Japanese
Pop Culture & Cute

Religion

Sex & Eroticism
Sports
Teaching English in Japan
Traditional Arts
Travel & Living
Women's Role & Status

Quintessential Japan Keywords

abortion agriculture Ainu ambiguity anime
archaeology atom bomb Aum Shinrikyo baseball bento
birth control bonsai boso-zoku bowing bribery
Buddhism bullet train bunraku burakumin bureaucracy
business cabinet making castles censorship China
Christianity college comfort women comics Constitution
construction consumption cooking corruption cults
culture cute defense discrimination doctors
dolls earthquakes economy Edo education
emperor English environment feminism fencing
feudalism fishing flower arrangement food forestry
furniture gardens geisha gift wrapping globalization
guidebooks healthcare high school clubs hiragana Hirohito
Hiroshima history textbooks homosexuality housing human rights
idols ikebana immigration J-League Japanese
JET Program judo kabuki kanji karaoke
karate katakana kendo kimono kisha (press) clubs
Koizumi Korea koto loan sharks Lolita complex
love hotels manga martial arts media medicine
Meiji mind minorities mistresses motorcycle gangs
music Nanjing massacre nationalism NHK Nikkei
ningyo ninja No origami pachinko
Pearl Harbor politics pollution pop culture pornography
rakugo religion restaurants rice ritual
samisen samurai sashimi school system self-censorship
sexuality Shinkansen Shinto soapland Soka Gakkai
stock market sudoku suicide sumo sushi
Takarazuka tansu tea ceremony telephone clubs television
theater trade barriers travel Unit 731 US-Japan relations
underworld urban sprawl usury whaling women
working life World War II yakuza Yasukuni Shrine Zen

 

General Knowledge
 
Richard Bowring & Peter Kornicki
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan
 
Louis Frédéric, et al 
Japan Encyclopedia (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
Business and Politics
Albert J. Alletzhauser
The House of Nomura: The Inside Story of the Legendary Japanese Financial Dynasty
 
Roger W. Bowen
Japan's Dysfunctional Democracy: The Liberal Democratic Party and Structural Corruption
Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan
Tim Clark & Carl Kay
Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market
Gerald L. Curtis
The Japanese Way of Politics
The Logic of Japanese Politics
Eugene R. Dattel
The Sun that Never Rose: Inside Story of Japan's Failed Attempt at Global Financial Dominance
Boyé Lafayette De Mente
How To Do Business with the Japanese
Japanese Etiquette & Ethics In Business
Carlos Ghosn
Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival
Louis D. Hayes
Introduction to Japanese Politics
Timothy Hoye
Japanese Politics: Fixed and Floating Worlds
Chalmers Johnson
Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State
MITI and the Japanese Miracle
Douglas Moore Kenrick
Where Communism Works: The Success of Competitive-Communism in Japan
Alex Kerr
Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
Lost Japan
Paul Krugman
Trade with Japan: Has the Door Opened Wider?
Ikuo Kume
Disparaged Success: Labour Politics in Postwar Japan
John Kunkel
America's Trade Policy Towards Japan: Demanding Results
Akio Morita, et al
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony
John Nathan
Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose
Ian Neary
The State and Politics in Japan
Ulrike Schaede
Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Association, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan
Leonard J. Schoppa
Bargaining with Japan
Frank J. Schwartz & Susan J. Pharr
The State of Civil Society in Japan
Patrick Smith
Japan: A Reinterpretation
Jared Taylor
Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle
Ezra F. Vogel
Japan As Number One: Lessons for America
Martin J. Wolf
The Japanese Conspiracy: The Plot to Dominate Industry Worldwide — And How to Deal with It
Karel van Wolferen
The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
Brian Woodall
Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works
Jon Woronoff
Japan As — Anything But — Number One
Japan's Wasted Workers
The Japanese Economic Crisis
The Japanese Management Mystique: The Reality Behind the Myth
Politics the Japanese Way
Ronald E. Yates
The Kikkoman Chronicles: A Global Company with a Japanese Soul

Defense
Patrick M. Cronin & Michael J. Green
Redefining the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Tokyo's National Defense Program
 
Anthony Difillipo
The Challenges of the U.S.-Japan Military Arrangement:
Competing Security Transitions in a Changing International Environment
 
Michael J. Green
Arming Japan: Defense Production, Alliance Politics, and the Postwar Search for Autonomy

Education
 
Catherine C. Lewis
Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education
David L. McConnell
Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program
Brian J. McVeigh
Japanese Higher Education As Myth
Daniel Metraux
Under the Gaijin Gaze: Essays on the Education & Attitudes of Japanese College Women
Yasuhiro Nemoto
The Japanese Education System
Thomas P. Rohlen
Japan's High Schools
Michael D. Stephens
Education and the Future of Japan
Kaori Okano & Motonori Tsuchiya
Education in Contemporary Japan: Inequality and Diversity
Merry White
The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children

Environment
Peter Blandon
Japan and World Timber Markets
John Clammer
Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption
Timothy S. George
Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan
Carola Hein, et al
Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 
Yoshiya Iwai
Forestry and the Forest Industry in Japan
Alex Kerr
Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
Ran Levy-Yamamori & Gerard Taaffe
Garden Plants of Japan
Miranda A. Schreurs
Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States
André Sorensen
Land Readjustment and Metropolitan Growth: An Examination of Suburban Land Development and Urban Sprawl in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
Conrad Totman
The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan
 
Brian Woodall
Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works
Amy Wong
The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies

Food
Richard Hosking
A Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients & Culture
 
Emi Kazuko
Café Japan
Japanese Food and Cooking: Timeless Cuisine
Carolyn R. Krouse
A Guide to Food Buying in Japan
Naomi Kijima
Bento Boxes: Japanese Meals on the Go
Rob Satterwhite
What's What in Japanese Restaurants: A Guide to Ordering Eating and Enjoying
Tokiko Suzuki
Japanese Homestyle Cooking
The Essentials of Japanese Cooking
Kuwako Takahashi
The Joy of Japanese Cooking

Health
Mark. A. Colby
Negotiating the Gray Maze: The Business of Medicine in Japan
John Creighton Campbell & Naoki Ikegami
The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System
 
Mark A. Colby & Steve Ziolkowski
The Japan Healthcare Debate: Diverse Perspectives
Eric A. Feldman, et al
The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy
Tiana Norgren
Abortion before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan
Louise Picon Shimizu, et al
Japan Health Handbook

History
 
Gina L. Barnes
The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: The Archaeology of China, Korea and Japan
Iris Chang
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Herbert P. Bix
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Leo T. S. Ching
Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity
Haruko Taya Cook & Theodore F. Cook
Japan at War: An Oral History
John W. Dower
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Peter Duus
The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910
Joshua A. Fogel
Sagacious Monks and Bloodthirsty Warriors: Chinese Views of Japan in the Ming-Qing Period
The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography
Carol Gluck
Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
Hal Gold
Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
Andrew Gordon
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
Harry Harootunian
Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
Meirion & Susie Harries
Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army
Sheldon H. Harris
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up
Kenneth G. Henshall
A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
John Hersey
Hiroshima
George L. Hicks
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
Katsuichi Honda
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame
Gerald Horne
Race War: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire
Saburo Ienaga
Pacific War, 1931-1945
Kenji Imamura
Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia
Marius B. Jansen
The Making of Modern Japan
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
The Image of Japan: From Feudal Isolation to World Power, 1850-1905
The Roots of Modern Japan
Ramon H. Myers & Mark R. Peattie
The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945
Laurence Rees
Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II
Hampton Sides
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Yuki Tanaka
Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II
John Toland
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Stephen Turnbull
Ashigaru 1467-1649
Japanese Castles 1540-1640
Japanese Warrior Monks AD 949-1603
Ninja AD 1460-1650
Samurai Armies 1550-1615
Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592 -1598
War in Japan 1467-1615
Brett L. Walker
The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800
Lu Yan
Re-Understanding Japan: Chinese Perspectives, 1895-1945
Louise Young
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism

Language
English-Japanese, Japanese-English Dictionaries
Kodansha's Furigana Dictionary: English < > Japanese
Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary: English < > Japanese
Oxford Picture Dictionary: English < > Japanese
Random House Dictionary: English < > Japanese
Tuttle (Martin's Concise) Dictionary: English < > Japanese
Tuttle: The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary
Webster's New World Compact Dictionary: English < > Japanese
Association for Japanese-Language Teaching
Japanese for Busy People (complete series of courses)
Helen Ballhatchet & Stefan Kaiser
Teach Yourself Japanese
Boyé Lafayette De Mente, et al
Instant Japanese: Everything You Need in 100 Key Words and Phrases!
Naoya Fujita
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese
Helen Gilhooly
Teach Yourself Beginner's Japanese Script
James W. Heisig, et al
Remembering the Kana: Hiragana & Katakana
Remembering the Kanji: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget
the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters
Tazuko Ajiro Monane
Japanese Made Easy
Gene Nishi
Japanese Step by Step: An Innovative Approach to Speaking and Reading Japanese
Eric Sato
Japanese for Dummies
Masayoshi Shibatani
The Languages of Japan

Law & Lawlessness
Eric A. Feldman, et al
The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy
Kinji Fukasaku (director)
The Yakuza Papers —  Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Region 1 DVD Box Set)
Carl F. Goodman
Justice and Civil Procedure in Japan
The Rule of Law in Japan: A Comparative Analysis
 
Karl T. Greenfeld
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation
Peter B. E. Hill
The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State
David E. Kaplan & Alec Dubro
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition
Hiroshi Oda
Japanese Law
J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato
Japanese Law : An Economic Approach
Junichi Saga
Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
Frank J. Schwartz & Susan J. Pharr
The State of Civil Society in Japan
Mark D. West
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes
Robert Whiting
Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan

Martial Arts
Gichin Funakoshi, et al
Karate-Do: My Way of Life
Karate Jutsu: The Original Teachings of Master Funakoshi
The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master
E. J. Harrison
Fighting Spirit of Japan: The Esoteric Study of the Martial Arts and Way of Life in Japan
Isao Inokuma & Nobuyuki Sato
Best Judo
Hirokazu Kanazawa & Richard Berger
Karate Fighting Techniques: The Complete Kumite
Jigoro Kano
Kodokan Judo
Hiroshi Ozawa
Kendo: The Definitive Guide
Oscar Ratti & Adele Westbrook
Secrets of the Samurai: A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japan
Junzo Sasamori & Gordon Warner
This Is Kendo: The Art of Japanese Fencing

Media & Censorship
 
Icon Group International, Inc.
TV Programming in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997
Anne Allison 
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
Laurie Anne Freeman
Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media
Adam Gamble & Takesato Watanabe
A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West
Ivan P. Hall
Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop
Gregory J. Kasza
The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945
Nagisa Oshima
Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima
Susan J. Pharr & Ellis S. Krauss
Media and Politics in Japan
Lise Skov & Brian Moeran
Women, Media, and Consumption in Japan

Mindset & Cultural Heritage
 
Ruth Benedict
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
Nicholas Bornoff
Things Japanese
Azby Brown & Kengo Kuma
The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space
Robert Christopher
Japanese Mind
Yuzan Daidoji
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinsu
Cathy N. Davidson
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
Boyé Lafayette De Mente
Behind the Japanese Bow
Discovering Cultural Japan: A Guide to Appreciating and Experiencing the Real Japan
Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules...that Make the Difference
The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture 
The Japanese Samurai Code: Classic Strategies for Success
Bruce S. Feiler
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
Sheldon Garon
Molding Japanese Minds
Ivan P. Hall
Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop
Lafcadio Hearn
Exotics and Retrospectives (Writings on Japan by Lafcadio Hearn)
Lafcadio Hearn: Japan's Great Interpreter : A New Anthology of His Writings : 1894-1904 
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of his Writings on the Country and its People
Writings from Japan: An Anthology (Penguin Classics)
Shintaro Ishihara
The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Among Equals
Karin Muller
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
Haruki Murakami
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Edwin O. Reischauer
Japan: The Story of a Nation
Japanese
My Life Between Japan and America
The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity
Noriko Takada & Rita Lampkin
The Japanese Way: Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs of the Japanese
Deborah Tannen & Haru Yamada
Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other
Paul Varley
Japanese Culture
Robert Whiting
The Samurai Way of Baseball: The Impact of Ichiro and the New Wave from Japan

Minorities & Non-Japanese
Betsy Brody
Opening the Doors: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan
Mike Douglass & Glenda S. Roberts
Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society
William W. Fitzhugh & Chisato O. Dubreuil 
Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
George Hicks
Japan's Hidden Apartheid: The Korean Minority and the Japanese
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi,
New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas
and from Latin America in Japan
Joshua Hotaka Roth
Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan
 
Yasuko Kanno
Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds
 
Demetrios G. Papademetriou & Kimberly A. Hamilton
Reinventing Japan: Immigration's Role in Shaping Japan's Future
Ceri Peach,
Global Japan: The Experience of Japan's New Immigrants and Overseas Communities
Barbara Aoki Poisson
The Ainu of Japan
Michael Weiner
Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity

Pop Culture & Cute
 
Hiroshi Aoyagi
Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance & Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan
Ken Belson & Brian Bremner
Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline Phenomenon
Timothy J. Craig
Japan Pop! — Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture
Roger Davies & Osamu Ikeno
The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Culture
Patrick Drazen
Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation
Richard McGregor
Japan Swings: Politics, Culture and Sex in the New Japan
Michael Mepham
The Book of Sudoku: The Hot New Puzzle Craze
Toru Mitsui & Shuhei Hosokawa
Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing
Jennifer Ellen Robertson
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
Frederik L. Schodt
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
Eric C. Sedensky
Winning Pachinko: The Game of Japanese Pinball
Tammy Seto
Sudoku: More than 200 Fun and Challenging Japanese Number Puzzles
Ivan Vartanian
Drop Dead Cute: The New Generation of Women Artists in Japan

Religion
 
Esben Andreasen
Popular Buddhism In Japan: Buddhist Religion & Culture
P. Richard Bohr
Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Modern Japan
Heinrich Dumoulin, et al
Zen Buddhism: A History — Japan
Hirotatsu Fujiwara
I Denounce Soka Gakkai
William Elliot Griffis
Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji
Lafcadio Hearn
Japan's Religions — Shinto and Buddhism
Ichiro Hori, et al
Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change (The Haskell Lectures on History of Religions)
David E. Kaplan
The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult,
from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia
Rei Kimura
Aum Shinrikyo: Japan's Unholy Sect
Robert J. Kisala
Prophets of Peace: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan's New Religions
Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society through the Aum Affair
P.F. Kornicki, et al
Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth
Daniel Alfred Metraux
The History and Theology of Soka Gakkai: A Japanese New Religion
Mark R. Mullins
Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements
Handbook of Christianity in Japan
Haruki Murakami
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Ian Reader, et al
A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo's Path to Violence
Japanese Religions: Past and Present
Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan
Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo
George J. Tanabe, Jr.
Religions of Japan in Practice

Sex & Eroticism
 
Anne Allison 
Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
Nicholas Bornoff
Pink Samurai: An Erotic Exploration of Japanese Society
Peter Constantine
Japan's Sex Trade: A Journey through Japan's Erotic Subcultures
Boyé Lafayette De Mente
Bachelor's Japan
Women of the Orient: Intimate Profiles of the World's Most Feminine Women
Sabine Frühstück
Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan
Lisa Louise
Butterflies of the Night: Mama-sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve
Mark J. McLelland
Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities
Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age
Mark Schreiber
Tokyo Confidential: Titillating Tales From Japan's Wild Weeklies
Romain Slocombe
Tokyo Sex Underground

Sports
David Benjamin & Greg Holfeld
Joy of Sumo: A Fan's Guide
Robert K. Fitts
Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game
 
Mina Hall
The Big Book of Sumo: History, Practice, Ritual, Fight
Daniel E. Johnson
Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook
Makoto Kubota
Sumo
Wolfram Manzenreiter
Football Goes East: Business, Culture and the People's Game in China, Japan and South Korea
Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup
Robert Whiting
The Samurai Way of Baseball: The Impact of Ichiro and the New Wave from Japan

Teaching English in Japan
 
Celeste Heiter
Ganbatte Means Go for It! Or. . . How to Become an English Teacher in Japan 
David L. McConnell
Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program
Jerry O'Sullivan
Teaching English Japan: Finding Work, Teaching, and Living in Japan
Paul Wadden
A Handbook for Teaching English at Japanese Colleges and Universities

Traditional Arts
John Bester (translator)
Classic Bonsai of Japan (Nippon Bonsai Association)
Karen Brazell
Traditional Japanese Theater
Liza Crihfield Dalby
Kimono: Fashioning Culture
Hugh De
Japanese Musical Instruments
Kunio Ekiguchi
Gift Wrapping: Creative Ideas from Japan
Tomoko Fuse
Fabulous Origami Boxes
Kusudama Origami
Origami Quilts
Simple Traditional Origami
Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations
David Jackson & Dane Owen
Japanese Cabinetry: The Art & Craft of Tansu
Henry Johnson
The Koto: A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan
Donald Keene
No and Bunraku
Kazuko Koizumi
Traditional Japanese Furniture: A Definitive Guide
Yoko Kondo
Creative Gift Packaging
Samuel L. Leiter
The Art of Kabuki: Five Famous Plays
William P. Malm
Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments
Heinz Morioka & Miyoko Sasaki
Rakugo: The Popular Narrative Art of Japan
Alan Pate
Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll
A.C. Scott
The Kabuki Theatre of Japan
Sen, XV Soshitsu
The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu
The Spirit of Tea
Ming-Ju Sun
Japanese Kimono Paper Dolls in Full Color
Japanese Warrior Costumes Paper Dolls
Kabuki Costumes Paper Dolls
Traditional Japanese Fashions Paper Dolls
Reiko Takenaka
Easy Ikebana: Floral Accents for the Home
Ikebana: Step by Step Japanese Flower Arrangement
Royall Tyler (Translator)
Japanese No Dramas (Penguin Classics)
Norio Yamanaka
The Book of Kimono

Travel & Living
 
Alan Booth
Looking for the Lost: Journeys through a Vanishing Japan
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk through Japan
Nicholas Bornoff
National Geographic Traveler: Japan
Azby Brown & Kengo Kuma
The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space
Amy Chavez
Guidebook To Japan: What the Other Guidebooks Won't Tell You
Boyé Lafayette De Mente
Japan Made Easy
Jan Dodd & Simon Richmond
The Rough Guide to Japan
Will Ferguson
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan
Rick Kennedy
Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer
June Kinoshita & Nicholas Palevsky
Gateway to Japan (Kodansha Guide)
Jennifer Phillips
In the Know in Japan: The Indispensable Guide to Working and Living in Japan
Chris Rowthorne, et al
Lonely Planet: Japan
Jarrell D. Sieff
A Practical Guide to Living in Japan: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Settle In
Ann Waswo
Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History
Ramsey Zarifeh
Japan by Rail: Includes Rail Route Guide and 29 City Guides

Women's Role & Status
 
Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan
Jane Condon
A Half Step Behind: Japanese Women Today
Boyé Lafayette De Mente
Women of the Orient: Intimate Profiles of the World's Most Feminine Women
Ayako Kano
Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism
Lisa Louise
Butterflies of the Night: Mama-sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve
Vera Mackie
Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality
Daniel Metraux
Under the Gaijin Gaze: Essays on the Education & Attitudes of Japanese College Women
Tiana Norgren
Abortion before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan
Jennifer Ellen Robertson
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
Barbara Hamill Sato
The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan
Lise Skov & Brian Moeran
Women, Media, and Consumption in Japan

Previous Main Menu Contact

This page last updated 2010-03-13
Eyes on Japan compiled and edited by David Appleyard, 2001-2010  |  Privacy Policy