Cultural Region/Japanese
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The Vegan Guide to Tokyo: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Plant-Based Eats in Tokyo and Beyond
$19.95 Read moreTake a vegan tour of Tokyo with this guide to its neighborhoods and the best of their plant-based offerings.
From an early morning coffee to midday shopping for clothing before following the wafting s- Author: Terzuolo, Chiara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1922754196
- Language: English
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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
$35.00 Add to cartThis book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why … [more below]
- Author: Yanagi, Soetsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365209
- Language: English
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Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels #12: The First Samurai
$9.99 Add to cartIt’s a samurai showdown as Team Geronimo follows the Pirate Cats to feudal Japan!
It’s feudal Japan of the first Tokugawa dynasty, and the Pirate Cats are trying to be assigned a specific fiefdom by t- Series: Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels #12
- Author: Stilton, Geronimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1597073857
- Language: English
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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
$16.00 Read moreIt had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the lengt
- Author: Ferguson, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1841952885
- Language: English
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Japan by Rail: Includes Rail Route Guide and 30 City Guides
$26.95 Add to cartJapan is steeped in legend and myth, perhaps the greatest of which is the popular misconception that the country is simply too expensive to visit. The truth is that flights to Japan are cheaper than t… [more below]
- Author: Zarifeh, Ramsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: September 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1912716143
- Language: English
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140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
$17.99 Read moreOn the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armagedd… [more below]
- Author: Dean Barrett, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1635767520
- Language: English
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Japanese War Fantasy 1933: An Edited and Annotated Translation of Account of the Future Us-Japan War
$19.99 Read moreA bombshell dropped onto Honolulu docks in 1933–by ominous coincidence, on December 7. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Account of the Future US-Japan War. Unlike other popular w… [more below]
- Author: Fukunaga, Kyosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366467
- Language: English
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Japanese Combined Fleet 1941-42: The Ijn at Its Zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway
$23.00 Read moreLaunching Osprey’s new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s striking force at the height of its power.
The Imperial Japa- Series: Fleet #1
- Author: Stille, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856430
- Language: English
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Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
$22.00 Add to cart“Lovers of haiku will rejoice at the arrival of this book, the first complete translation of the collected haiku of Yosa Buson…rendered into English with obvious care and devotion…Through Buson we
- Author: Buson, Yosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1556594267
- Language: English
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Murder in the Crooked House
$14.95 Read moreA fiendish LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY from the Japanese master of the genre.
Never before available in English. By the author of the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders. The Crooked House sits on a snowbound clif- Series: Pushkin Vertigo
- Author: Shimada, Soji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1782274561
- Language: English
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A Place to Belong
$9.99 Add to cartFive starred reviews
“Another gift from Kadohata to her readers.” —Booklist (starred review) A Japanese American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese imprisonment camps, gives up- Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1481446657
- Language: English
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Rinko Kawauchi: Illuminance: The Tenth Anniversary Edition
$65.00 Add to cartTen years after publishing Illuminance in 2011, Aperture is delighted to bring this beloved book back into print, retaining Rinko Kawauchi’s original sequence and signature melding of keenly observed … [more below]
- Author: Kawauchi, Rinko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1597115142
- Language: English
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Forms of Japan: Michael Kenna
$65.00 Read moreNow available in a beautiful new edition, this book presents a meditative, arresting and dazzling collection of 240 black-and-white images of Japan, made over almost 30 years by the internationally re… [more below]
- Author: Kenna, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 3791388266
- Language: English
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Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia
$39.95 Read moreWith 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region’s species. The first single-volume field guide for eastern Asia, the book cov
- Series: Princeton Field Guides #46
- Author: Brazil, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0691139261
- Language: English
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Port Arthur 1904-05: The First Modern Siege
$25.00 Read moreA gripping, illustrated narrative of the longest and most brutal land battle of the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.
Growing rivalry between Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan over territorial control in C- Series: Campaign #398
- Author: Forczyk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1472855639
- Language: English
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Grave of the Fireflies
$17.95 Add to cartOn its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wit, Alex Dudok de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1838719245
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Ramen: The Asian Hall of Fame
$16.95 Read moreEnjoy the first English children’s picture book on how Japan’s ramen noodles were created Amazingly illustrated, this storybook features a glossary of Japanese terms.
This is the first adventure- Series: Asian Hall of Fame
- Author: Amara, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1597021342
- Language: English
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The Star Festival
$16.99 Read more2021 Freeman Book Awards Honorable Mention – Children’s Literature
STARRED REVIEW! “Hadley has created a remarkable debut that flows ele
The Best Children’s Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street College- Author: Hadley, Moni Ritchie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 080757595X
- Language: English
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Let’s Make Sushi!: Step-By-Step Tutorials and Essential Recipes for Rolls, Nigiri, Sashimi and More from a Master Sushi Chef
$22.99 Read moreMake Incredible Sushi in Your Own Kitchen
Learn the essential techniques to make delicious, properly executed sushi with your own two hands, no matter your skill level. From creative rolls and classi- Author: Matsuda, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1645677087
- Language: English
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
$26.85 Read more“A gripping, suspenseful page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) with a “fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller” (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the U… [more below]
- Author: Lochbaum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970848
- Language: English
