Japan in association with amazon
BooksMagazinesMusicDVDVideosElectronics
CamerasComputersSoftwareGamesClassical Music
Our PicksTravel/GuideFood/DrinkTrad. JapanSoc/Live/WorkStudy JapaneseLit/Anime/FilmWar/Hist.Wild Japan


Books » Our Picks » Recommended
>> >> >> >>

Sterling Seagrave »
List Price: $26.00
Our Price:


Review
In 1945, US Intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Herbert P. Bix »
List Price: $18.00
Our Price:$14.04


Review
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose... read more »


or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
DK Publishing »
List Price: $25.00
Our Price:


Review
Includes: Tokyo, Central Honshu, Kyoto City, Western Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa, Northern Honshu, and... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Boye Lafayette De Mente »
List Price: $10.95
Our Price:


Review
Etiquette Guide to Japan offers an inside look at the social norms of the Japanese-when to bow, how to propose a toast, when to pay the bill, the careful art of gift-giving, how to deal with... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
David Magee »
List Price: $25.95
Our Price:$18.94


Review

Not since the days of Lee Iacocca at Chrysler has an auto executive captured the imagination of his industry and the broader business world as Carlos Ghosn of Nissan.

Ghosn is responsible... read more »


or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Judi Strada »
List Price: $16.99
Our Price:$11.55


Review
Demystify the sushi bar experience

Stuffed with tips and tricks -- you’ll roll, press, and mold sushi like a pro!

From rolling sushi properly to presenting it with pizzazz, this book... read more »


or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Takashi Sawano »
List Price: $32.00
Our Price:$21.12


Review
Written by a Japanese landscape architect who lived and worked overseas, this book offers detailed step-by-step advice on how to design and construct Japanese gardens in various environments, using... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Bruce Smith »
List Price: $21.95
Our Price:$21.51


Review
In the West, a bath is a place one goes to cleanse the body. In Japan, one goes there to cleanse the soul. Bathing in Japan is about much more than cleanliness: it is about family and community. It... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Will Ferguson »
List Price: $15.00
Our Price:


Review
Hitchhiker Will Ferguson experiences Japan in the most unusual way when he treks the length of the country from south to north by... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Arthur Golden »
List Price: $15.00
Our Price:$10.20


Review
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Karel Van Wolferen »
List Price: $24.00
Our Price:$21.60


Review
A full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Ikuko Atsumi »
List Price: $10.95
Our Price:$10.95


Review

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Jacob Schlesinger »
List Price: $28.95
Our Price:$28.95


Review
This is a vivid account of the corrupt and improbable political machine that ran Japanese politics for twenty years, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the period during which Japan became... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Donald Keene »
List Price: $82.50
Our Price:$66.00


Review
When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country´s more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Kakuzo Okakura »
List Price: $4.95
Our Price:$4.95


Review
Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F.... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
Timon Screech »
List Price: $24.00
Our Price:


Review
Sex and the Floating World offers an entirely new assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. Recent changes in Japanese law have at last enabled erotic images to be... read more »

or try... | US | UK | JP | JP (En) | DE | Can | Fr | DE (En) |
» Japan Window «
Behind the scenes at a Japanese shrine.
Japan Guide
DK Publishing $16.50
Brandia Tanaka $17.95
Ian L. McQueen
Globetrotter
Unknown
Michelin $14.95
Beth Reiber
Unknown (to me)
Reiber


Law«