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A Day at the Sumo Matches
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All About Japanese Ukiyoe
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Falling from Gaijin Grace
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JET Interview
Japanese Culture Shock
The Master Race
Onsen
Passivity
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The Society of Silence
To Burn or Not to Burn
Welcome to Our Dojo
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Learning Japanese
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Book Reviews
Unless otherwise noted, reviews are by Mark Groenewold.
Books by Mark Schreiber
Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan
The Dark Side
Tokyo Confidential
Books by Robert Whiting
Tokyo Underworld
You Gotta Have Wa
The Meaning Of Ichiro
Books by Haruki Murakami
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Norwegian Wood
- reviewed by Matthew Oosterhuis
After the Quake
Books by Alex Kerr
Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan
Lost Japan
Books by Takeo Doi
Anatomy of Dependence
Anatomy of Self
Books by Other Authors
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.
Video/Movie Reviews
Movies by Akira Kurosawa
The Hidden Fortress
The Seven Samurai
Kurosawa Akira's Dreams
Other Movies
The Last Samurai
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