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  • Eric Reinders The best books on Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki Book cover of Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art Book cover of Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation Book cover of Starting Point: 1979-1996 Book cover of Spirited Away Book cover of Hayao Miyazaki's World Picture
  • Matthew Baxter The best books to discover the real Japan Book cover of Tokyo Stroll Book cover of Japanese Inns and Hot Springs Book cover of Tokyo Photo Guide Book cover of My Hokkaido Book cover of Deep Kyoto: Walks
  • Michael Booth The best fiction books set in Japan Book cover of Norwegian Wood Book cover of Convenience Store Woman Book cover of The Master of Go Book cover of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Book cover of Pachinko
  • Peter Popham The best quirky books on modern Japan Book cover of The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan Book cover of The Old Sow in the Back Room: An Englishwoman in Japan Book cover of An Artist of the Floating World Book cover of The Shogun’s Queen Book cover of Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
  • Suzanne Kamata The best memoirs by foreigners in Japan Book cover of At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery Book cover of In Search of the Sun: One Woman's Quest to Find Family in Japan Book cover of The View From Breast Pocket Mountain Book cover of The Wagamama Bride: A Jewish Family Saga Made in Japan Book cover of The Only Gaijin in the Village
  • Julian Sedgwick The best books to explore otherworldly Japan Book cover of NonNonBa Book cover of Fukushima Devil Fish Book cover of Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Book cover of Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey Book cover of Just So Happens
  • Marian Frances Wolbers The best books for a sweet journey into Japan Book cover of The Sound of Waves Book cover of Convenience Store Woman Book cover of Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan Book cover of Kitchen Book cover of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
  • Michael Grothaus The best books set in Japan Book cover of Memoirs of a Geisha Book cover of Hiroshima Book cover of Sweet Bean Paste Book cover of Snow Country Book cover of Breasts and Eggs
  • Jilly Traganou The best books on travel in premodern and modern Japan Book cover of Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan Book cover of Tokyo, Form and Spirit Book cover of Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology Book cover of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan Book cover of Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan
  • Adam Broinowski The best books on Japanese postwar creative arts in their wider context Book cover of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War Book cover of Kazuo Ohno's World: From Without & Within Book cover of Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan Book cover of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan Book cover of A History of Japanese Theatre
  • Milena Michiko Flašar The best books to dive into modern Japan from someone who is half Japanese Book cover of The Little House Book cover of The Thief Book cover of A Journal of My Father Book cover of Lonely Castle in the Mirror Book cover of Go: A Coming of Age Novel
  • Thomas Lockley The best books to get aboard the rollercoaster world of Japan’s global history Book cover of The Making of Modern Japan Book cover of The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Book cover of Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World Book cover of The Samurai: A Military History Book cover of Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
  • Jeremy A. Yellen The best books on the Japanese Empire Book cover of Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism Book cover of Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 Book cover of Race for Empire Book cover of The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932 Book cover of Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
  • Sanae Ishida The best children’s books about and from Japan Book cover of Kuma-Kuma Chan, the Little Bear Book cover of My Friends Book cover of Kamishibai Man Book cover of Chirri & Chirra Book cover of Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
  • Dennis Kawaharada The best books for exploring roads less traveled in Japan Book cover of Bashō's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages Book cover of Hiroshige's Japan: On the Trail of the Great Woodblock Print Master - A Modern-day Artist's Journey on the Old Tokaido Road Book cover of Walking the Kiso Road: A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan Book cover of Hiroshige's Journey in the 60-Odd Provinces Book cover of Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
  • Sam Baldwin The best travel books about life in Japan Book cover of The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan Book cover of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan Book cover of Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan Book cover of Tonoharu: Part 1 Book cover of Inaka: Portraits of Life in Rural Japan
  • Craig McLachlan The best books for understanding Japan and the Japanese Book cover of The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan Book cover of Japanese Pilgrimage Book cover of Japan, a View from the Bath Book cover of Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary Book cover of Pictures from the Water Trade: An Englishman in Japan
  • Frederik L. Schodt The best books that have inspired me to write about Japan Book cover of The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samurai Style Book cover of Giving Up the Gun Book cover of Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World Book cover of Ranald MacDonald Book cover of Karma
  • Queenie Chan The best Manga & novels that are slightly-spooky mysteries from Japan Book cover of The Tokyo Zodiac Murders Book cover of The Opera House Murders Book cover of Death Among the Undead Book cover of Case Closed, Vol. 1 Book cover of Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
  • Rob Goss The best books to get a deeper understanding of Japan Book cover of The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Book cover of The Legends of Tono Book cover of The Obsessed: Otakus, Tribes, and Subcultures of Japan Book cover of Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Book cover of A History of Japan
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