The year is 1853, and a young Japanese girl's world is about to be turned upside down.When black ...

Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long ...

The Shortest History of Japan

Lesley Downer erzählt eine große Liebesgeschichte, die ins Japan des 19. Jahrhunderts entführt. D...

The year is 1853, and a young Japanese girl's world is about to be turned upside down.When black ...

Following the eight-hundred-mile trek of Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, this journey into a lost Jap...

1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ....

In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; But Nobu wi...

Lesley Chan Downer retraces Basho's pilgrimage through Japan, blending travel, haiku, and contemp...

The Shortest History of Japan

Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing ever...