Geographic Catalog Go to North-East AsiaJapan- Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
 In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and On Rue Tatin, here is a Broadway Abroad travel memoir with plenty of food, but this time set in the exotic, alluring city of Kyoto. - Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen A full-color cookbook featuring more than 140 recipes for the classics of the Japanese home kitchen
- Inventing Japan 1853 to1964
 A period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. - Japan Encyclopedia Full range of Japanese history and civilization
- Japan History by W. Scott Morton
- Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
 A bold explanation of Japan's stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world. - Geisha: the Life, the Voices, the Art
 - Japan From rice paddies to pachinko parlors, ancient temples to the Honda assembly plants, Kobota's lens has captured the essence of Japan.
- Japanscapes
- Kyoto: Seven Paths to the Heart of the City photographs by Katsuhiko Mizuno
- Diary of Lady Murasaki Lady Murasaki's Diary offers an intimate and equally compelling picture of her life as tutor and companion to the Empress Shoshi.
- Hirohito Making of Modern Japan by Herbert Bix
- Inland Sea 5th Ed by Donald Richie
- The Japan Journals 1947-2004 A record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility.
- Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
- Lonely Planet Hiking in Japan
 Solid information for the independent trekker. - National Geographic Japan & Korea Wall Map
 - Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868 by Marcia Yonemoto
- Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*ck Off!"
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