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

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

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

Updated and expanded! 1,000,000+ words on films, artists, studios, themes, and Japan's animation ...

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

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...

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

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...

Prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded ...

A readable overview of the ever-changing relationship between Japan and the United States.

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

This masterful collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed Spring Garden, pushes th...

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 ...

Self-Amused: A Tell-Some Memoir

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.

Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came ...

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.

MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japa...

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

Kanji come to life with over 250 graphically illustrated mnemonics for learning essential Japanes...

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...

Monkey New Writing from Japan

'This book is a physical work of art—as it should be, because the Japanese bath is an aesthetic e...

For readers who love Haruki Murakami and want to be introduced to other exciting contemporary Jap...

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.

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

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

For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced ...

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

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

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...