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Unless otherwise noted, reviews are by Mark Groenewold.

Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Buddha: The Comic
Charisma Man by Larry Rodney, Wayne Wilson, and Glen Schroeder
Confessions of Love by Uno Chiyo
Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga
Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower
Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
Grand Sumo by Seigoro Kitade and Deborah Kitade
Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor by Bill D. Ross
The Japanese Negotiator by Robert March.
Japanese Phoenix by Richard Katz, reviewed by Chris Spackman
The Joy of Sumo by David Benjamin
Madame Sadayakko by Lesley Downer
Max Danger: Adventures of an Expat in Tokyo by Robert J. Collins
No One is Perfect by Hirotada Ototake
Pink Samurai by Nicholas Bornoff
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
Slugging It Out in Japan by Warren Cromartie
Shinju and several other books by Laura Joh Rowland
So Can You by Mitsuyo Ohira
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation by Karl Taro Greenfield

Straightjacket Society by Masao Miyamoto, M.D.
Strange But True by Jack Seward
The Tide at Sunrise by Denis Warner and Peggy Warner, reviewed by Chris Spackman
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Budo: An Abstract
Bushido by Nitobe Inazo
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, trans. William Scott Wilson
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Samurai Jack
The Spirit of Budo by Trevor Leggett
The Tale of the Heike
The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho
Wicked Japanese by Howard Tomb
Zen Archery by Eugen Herrigel, reviewed by Kris Chapman.