Robert Christopher

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

The Goliath Explained

Somewhat a bit dated, yet a this book is considered to be a classic. The author brings three decades of travel, research and understanding of this ancient tribe. An entertaining and thorough introduction to all things Japanese. Much has been written about Japanese management. But this is the first book to explain the people, the life, and the culture of that fascinating nation.

The Japanese Mind

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Janice P. Nimura

Emily Zeller

This is for the audiobook on MP3 CD Daughters of the Smurai by Janice Nimura. Its in great shape. Only used once.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wyoming

A Journey from East to West and Back

Daughters of the Samurai MP3 CD

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West Virginia

“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston

The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite—the tea ceremony—became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield.

We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.


The Teahouse Fire

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In Search of What’s Japanese About Japan 

Hideo Yokoyama

Jonathan Lloyd-Davies

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

A Novel

The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter’s kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police’s apologies. They would never forget the botched investigation that became known as Six Four. They would never forgive the authorities for their failure. For one week in late 2002, the press officer attached to the police department in question confronted an anomaly in the case. He could never imagine what he would uncover. He would never have looked if he’d known what he would find.

Six Four

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The Story of the Twentieth Air Force

This book tells the story of how the Twentieth Air Force was built into the most advances strategic weapon of World War I and the prototype for today's Strategic Air Command. The author recounts how the B-29s had to be designed, built, tested, and proved in an impossibly short time, and how the men had to overcome the geographical obstacles they faced.

Point of No Return

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Louisiana

The Sinking of Japan's Secret Supership

Shinano!

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

Hitomi #1

HCDJ. DJ shows minimal wear. #hardcover #elizabethcoatsworth #buddhism #thecatwhowenttoheaven #cat #japan #lyndward #childrens #picturebook #juvenilefiction

California

In ancient Japan a struggling artist is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford to feed.

The Cat Who Went to Heaven

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Eric Van Lustbader

When Detective Wolf Matheson is called in to solve the murder of New York's best-known real-estate tycoon, he finds himself involved in what may soon become the next global war.

Black Blade

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Eve Bunting

A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

Grandfather's Journey

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#paperback #fiction #memoirsofageisha #historicalfiction #drama #historical #japan #novel 

Virginia

The "memoirs" of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, in 1929, as a little girl, she is sold into slavery, her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha, the impact of World War II, and her struggle to reinvent herself to win the man she loves. Reissue. (A Columbia Pictures film, directed by Rob Marshall, releasing Winter 2005, starring Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, & Gong Li) (Historical Fiction)

Memoirs of a Geisha

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New Jersey

After giving birth to a child out of wedlock on the eve of World War II, Emi Okada flees to the U.S. where she endures internment in the Colorado desert and then embarks on a lifetime of unraveling the family secrets that have shaped her troubled existence.

Why She Left Us

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Thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura is released from a Canadian internment camp in 1946 and repatriated to Japan with her embittered father. Aya's English-language abilities are prized as her school seatmate, Fumi Tanaka, decides that Aya might be able to help her find her missing older sister. Fumi has heard that General MacArthur sometimes assists Japanese citizens in need, and she enlists Aya to compose a letter in English asking him for help. Told through rich, interlocking storylines, this novel mines a turbulent period to show how war irrevocably shapes the lives of both the occupied and the occupiers, and how the poignant spark of resilience, friendship and love transcends cultures and borders to stunning effect.

The Translation of Love

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#hardcover #theharshcryoftheheron #japan #epic #historical #fantasy

A conclusion to the Tales of the Otori series brings the conflicts of its medieval Japanese characters full circle, illuminating unexpected aspects of the entire saga. By the author of Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for His Pillow.

The Harsh Cry of the Heron

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Lian Hearn

Michigan

Tales of the Otori --Book 3

The long-awaited third installment of the worldwide phenomenon and number-one international bestseller, Tales of the Otori Set in an imagined medieval Japan, Book Three is a thrilling-and surprising-follow-up to the previous adventures of Takeo and Kaede. Taking us deeper into the complexities of the loyalties that bind the novel's characters at birth-the fates from which they cannot escape-Brilliance of the Moongoes beyond its transcendent storytelling in demonstrating how we are shaped by forces outside of our control and yet must forge our own destinies all the same. A thoroughly gripping read, Brilliance of the Moonis also the most powerful novel in the series-a beautiful, haunting evocation of a time and a place just beyond the reach of an outside world.

Brilliance of the Moon

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#hardcover #ex-lib #hiroshima #japan #bikini-atoll #atomic-bomb #nuclear-war #historicalfiction

It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and World War II is over. But the U.S. government has decided that further tests of atomic bombs must be conducted. Bikini Atoll is chosen for the testing site, so the people who have lived there for generations must be relocated for two years. Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu believes the Americans are lying and that it will never be safe for his people to return. He must find a way to stop the first bomb before it is dropped .. . even if that means risking his own destruction. This chilling novel is based on the true story of atomic weapons testing at Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific Ocean. "A haunting, soundly researched work."--Publishers Weekly


The Bomb

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An Anthology

A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Faubion Bowers provides a Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.

The Classic Tradition of Haiku

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Book Club Ed intact Dust cover no moisture exposure little shelf wear clean print

Texas

You Only Live Twice  92

Yukio Tsuchiya

Excellent condition from a smoke-free home.

Ohio

A True Story of Animals, People, and War

A zookeeper recounts the story of John, Tonky, and Wanly, three performing elephants at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, whose turn it is to die, and of their keepers, who weep and pray that World War II will end so their beloved elephants might be saved.

Faithful Elephants

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#paperback #japan #1948 #pearldiving #leprosy #isolation #compassion #lepercolony this guy can write!  Loved this book so much I bought it again in hardcover.

Minnesota

In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji.

Although drugs arrest the course of Miss Fuji's disease, she cannot leave the colony. Instead, she becomes a caretaker to the other patients, and through the example of their courage, she gains insight into the deep wellspring of strength she will need to reclaim her freedom. Written with precision and eloquence, The Pearl Diver is a dazzling meditation on isolation and community, cruelty and compassion.

The Pearl Diver

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Mark Meers

Missouri

An American Businessman and His Family Take on '90s Japan

Bringing Home the Sushiby Mark Meers Purchase Now! Bringing Home the Sushi delivers an absorbing, insightful, unpretentious, picture of how a ... of seven voluntarily sell everything they own to relocate in Japan. From the boardrooms of Japan's giant conglomerates to its neighborhood coffee ... Japanese culture and business practice with wit and wisdom. Provides the reader with new understanding and insider accessibility to Japanese ...

Bringing Home the Sushi

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Collecting Oriental Antiques 

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National best seller, Japan's most celebrated geisha, confessions novel.

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Point of No Return

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Black Blade

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Grandfather's Journey

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Why She Left Us

Lynne Kutsukake

The Translation of Love

Lian Hearn

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Faubion Bowers (Editor)

The Classic Tradition of Haiku

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