A fun visual delight, this bestselling, award-winning book teaches over 1,000 kanji and their dif...

One of the most spectacular vendettas ever: the history and haiku behind the mass-suicide feature...

A fascinating guide to themes and films in the expanding Japanese megaverse.For fans, culture wat...

In Kanazawa, Japan, Emmitt and his wife Mirai clash over how to pursue their future together unti...

Learn the art of hand-crafted carpentry in this detailed guide to Japanese woodworking tools.Japa...

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The hottest directors, their coolest films . . . A complete guide to today's Japanese movie renai...

For film lovers and scholars, an essential resource and reference guide.

A fun, visual approach to mastering Japanese with real manga panels and easy-to-understand explan...

A deeply eccentric novel about lives and connections—and a cat of course—in 1980s Tokyo: witty, o...

Japan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, 'an extraordinarily beautiful evocation...

A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want t...

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spect...

A group of people walk across, around, and all over Tokyo.They talk, talk, talk. A linguistic, ex...

A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.

The heartwarming true story of a wrong-way humpback whale who is helped and cheered back to freed...

Poems derived from yogic practice, capturing the journey of the physical body to transcendent awa...

With just these two books, students can learn a quarter of the two thousand characters designated...

Adventuring, wandering, discovery: this is the guidebook to Tokyo that Japan lovers and the curio...

A handy supplement to studying characters in class or independently that teaches useful tricks fo...

An updated edition of the best-selling travel guide that spells out tourist problems and solution...

This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it's all about.

An American's unique behind-the-scenes look at Japanese business and how the animated films of Ha...

Absorbing fiction from Outsiders in a land that does not absorb foreigners easily.

Fifty more of the best samurai films--this time teamed up with yakuza and ninjas!

The Gundam creator's own vision of his spectacularly successful cult franchise, in a new edition ...

The first and only collection in English of the brilliant and troubled haiku poet Hosai Ozaki.

Homespun wisdom from Japan updated for today's 'green lifestyle' choices.

Introducing the works of a major Chinese writer--liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exotic--onc...

The return of a vital resource for students of Japanese culture, revised and expanded.

Married to a Zen monk in training, an American woman in Japan chronicles her own year of growth a...

Essential essays on all things Chinese that inform and entertain travelers, students, and anyone ...

If beauty is defined as a quality encompassing both extraordinary sensoriality and exemplary huma...

Drawing on Eastern tradition, Naikan ('nye-kahn') is a structured method for intensely meditating...

A delicious collection of essays, recipes, and practical plant information exploring Japan's thri...

Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and ar...

A linguistic portrait of Japanese womanhood, in a new edition that reveals how things have—and ha...

50 years of writing about Japan, from postwar to the age of Pokemon.

From fascination to disillusionment and back, a memoir of one man's quest for Zen and spiritualit...

'Anyone who thinks walking across the country is about walking, I'm here to tell you that it's not.'

Japanese characters served up with histories and cultural clues to help you decorate your skin bo...

A handy supplement for learning 300 of the most common Japanese words, works with any textbook!

Japanese kanji characters combine meaning with beauty and thus offer a unique medium for artistic...

Hot and sticky describes the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto in summer. And that is just the situa...

2018 Foreword Indie Awards Winner Going to Japan? This unfussy modern guide guarantees you keep i...

Marc Peter Keane's personal journey through 100 Japanese gardens, looking at them with a designer...

The true story of how one Japanese village suffered and survived the mercury poisoning of its wat...

A designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the w...