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	36 Views of Mount Fuji, On Finding Myself in Japan • Cathy Davidson • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A thoughtful set of witty reflections on Japan, Japanese culture and the adventure of living overseas by a talented writer who taught at an all women's university in Japan in the 1980s. (JPN65, $21.95)
	70 Japanese Gestures • Hamiru-aqui • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A clever guide to body language and slang in Japan as demonstrated in 70 witty black-and-white photographs and explanatory text. (JPN193, $9.95)
	Ainu, Spirit of a Northern People • William Fitzhugh • ARCHAEOLOGY • A magnificently illustrated, handsomely produced overview of Ainu history, art and culture. (JPN101, $49.95)
	Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century • Donald Keene • ANTHOLOGY • A classic first published in 1955, this book presents great Japanese literature over the ages. (JPN12, $15.95)
	Architecture and Authority in Japan • William H. Coaldrake • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Japanese architecture and its relationship to political and religious power structures. (JPN112, $59.95)
	An Artist in the Floating World • Kazuo Ishiguro • LITERATURE • His second novel, Ishiguro weaves a tale of an aging artist in postwar Japan. (JPN58, $13.95)
	Audrey Hepburn's Neck, A Novel • Alan Brown • LITERATURE • An exquisite short novel about contemporary Japan. This prize-winning work captures the eclectic, mixed-up society of contemporary Japan. (JPN14, $19.95)
	The Birds of Heaven, Travels With Cranes • Peter Matthiessen • Robert Bateman • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • Matthiessen traveled with the cranes to Siberia, Japan, Mongolia, North America, China, Bhutan, East Africa, Australia, India and Texas for this handsomely illustrated, informative book. He interweaves his travels with insightful commentary on the conservation, ecology, and the significance of the crane in art and culture. (BRD11, $16.00)
	Black Arrow • I. J. Parker • MYSTERY • Detective Akitada must solve a series of brutal slayings in the Northern city of Echigo. (JPN201, $14.00)
	Black Rain • Masuji Ibuse • Johan Bester • LITERATURE • (JPN192, $12.00)
	The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja, A Donald Keene Anthology • Donald Keene • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Keene tackles Japanese music, language, society and literature in these insightful pieces. (JPN15, $35.50)
	Botchan • Natsume Soseki • LITERATURE • (JPN191, $22.00)
	Buddhism, A Concise Introduction • Huston Smith • Philip Novak • RELIGION • A brief yet illuminating overview, discussing Theravada and other South Asian traditions in the first half and then Western traditions in the second. (ASA41, $12.95)
	Buddhist Art and Architecture • Robert Fisher • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A wide-ranging, illustrated survey of Buddhist art, architecture and iconography in the excellent World of Art series. It includes examples from throughout Asia. (ASA30, $18.95)
	Cha-No-Yu, The Japanese Tea Ceremony • Arthur L. Sadler • A.L. Sadler • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A classic guide to the disciplined, enduring art of the Japanese tea ceremony. (JPN59, $14.95)
	Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Patterns of Japanese Culture • Ruth Benedict • Ezra Vogel • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Published in the aftermath of World War II, this brilliant exploration of the Japanese psyche and culture retains its interest today, as much for its perspective on the West as for insights about the Japanese character. (JPN23, $15.00)
	Classic Japanese Inns and Country Getaways • Margaret Price • GUIDEBOOK • Price, a journalist who has lived in Japan since 1982, describes favorite inns, often ancient, sometimes luxurious, in this essential, illustrated guide to the ryokan of your desire. (JPN182, $23.00)
	Confessions of a Mask • Meredith Weatherby • Yukio Mishima • LITERATURE • This powerful book is the story of the monk who burned the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. It's an unsettling portrait of society in Post-War Japan, and the coming of age of a complex, tragic figure who struggles with his homosexuality. (JPN18, $12.95)
	A Cook's Tour, Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines • Anthony Bourdain • FOOD • In this deliciously funny book, Bourdain eats his way around the globe on a quest for the perfect (or perfectly odd) meal. From fried Mars Bars in Glasgow to cobra hearts in Cambodia, there's nowhere this wise-cracking chef won't go and nothing he won't try. (TVL90, $14.95)
	Crawling at Night • Nani Power • LITERATURE • Two nocturnal New Yorkers stumble through the nights in this atmospheric debut novel set in New York from a former sushi chef. (NYC83, $13.00)
	Deep River • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • (JPN159, $13.95)
	Dogs and Demons, Tales from the Dark Side of Japan • Alex Kerr • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A provocative analysis of current economic and social conditions in Japan. (JPN55, $17.00)
	The Dragon Scroll • I. J. Parker • MYSTERY • In this installment of the popular mystery series set in eleventh-century Japan, detective Sugawara Akitada travels to the province of Kazusa to investigate a theft. (JPN202, $13.00)
	During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade • Nagai Kafu • Lane Dunlop • LITERATURE • Two novellas set in red-light 1930s Tokyo, by a consummate Tokyo chronicler. (JPN106, $21.95)
	East Asia, Tradition and Transformation • John Fairbank • Edwin O. Reischauer • Albert M. Craig • HISTORY • A sprawling history of China and Japan, covering ancient through modern times. (ASA18, $171.96)
	Empire of Signs • Roland Barthes • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • In these marvelous, original and exasperating reflections, the great French semiotician comments of the signs and meaning of things Japanese. (JPN163, $13.00)
	The Empty Mirror, Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery • Janwillem van de Wettering • RELIGION • A candid account of novelist van de Wetering's experiences as a novice monk at Daitoku-ji Zen monastery in Kyoto in the late 1950s. (JPN164, $13.95)
	The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa • Robert Hass • LITERATURE • A collection of haiku, tenderly translated, by three Japanese masters of the form. Edited by ormer Poet Laureate Robert Hass. (JPN93, $16.00)
	Everyday Life in Traditional Japan • Charles Dunn • Laurence Broderick • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A cultural portrait of daily life in Tokugawa Japan under rule of the shogun. (JPN68, $14.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Japan • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Dazzling illustrations, architectural cut-aways and color photographs, along with useful local maps, give this guide to Japan's many attractions a distinct edge over the less visual competition. (JPN130, $25.00)
	First Fish, First People, Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim • Meg McHutchinson • Judith Roche • One Reel • ANTHOLOGY • A collection of native voices from Pacific shores, all remembering the salmon. It's a lovely book, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, and made more poignant by the salmon's decline in the coastal regions. (PNW116, $24.95)
	Five by Endo • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • (JPN158, $7.00)
	The Floating World • James Michener • Howard A. Link • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Michener delves into the history of Japanese printmaking. (JPN57, $27.95)
	Fodor's Exploring Japan • David Scott • GUIDEBOOK • A compact guide to the history, culture and attractions of Japan. Includes walking tours and good neighborhood maps, and features color photographs. (JPN33, $22.00)
	Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 • Christopher Bayly • Timothy Harper • HISTORY • A gripping history of Britains WWII campaigns in India, Burma and Malaysia by two Cambridge University historians. (ASA45, $29.95)
	Frommer's Japan • Frommer's • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide to travel in Japan. (JPN117, $24.99)
	Gambling with Virtue, Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation • Nancy Ross Rosenberger • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of diverse women, their aspirations and roles in Japanese society. (JPN129, $26.00)
	Geisha • Liza Crihfield Dalby • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The observations of an American graduate student who apprenticed as a geisha, interpreting this intriguing role in traditional Japanese society. (JPN49, $22.95)
	Geisha, A Life • Mineko Iwasaki • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The memoir of a celebrated Geisha, rich in details of life in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district. Iwasaki was the chief source of information for Arthur Golden's best-selling "Memoirs of a Geisha." (JPN131, $15.00)
	Getting Wet, Adventures in the Japanese Bath • Eric Talmadge • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Tokyo-based Talmadge journeys from seaside resorts to mountain retreats and megaplexes in this cultural history of Japan through the tradition of the bath. (JPN197, $22.00)
	The Girl Who Played Go • Shan Sa • Adriana Hunter • LITERATURE • In this accomplished novel set in a Manchurian city in the war-torn 1930s, two young people -- one of each side of the conflict -- fall in love. (CHN214, $13.95)
	God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories • Tom Bissell • LITERATURE • Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea. (CAS117, $13.95)
	The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan • Christopher Benfey • HISTORY • The fascinating tale of a tightly-knit group of late Victorian travelers, scientists and adventurers dedicated to the idea of Japan. (JPN138, $14.95)
	Haruko's World, A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community • Gail Lee Bernstein • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of life in contemporary rural Japan. (JPN150, $23.95)
	The Heritage of Japanese Civilization • Albert M. Craig • HISTORY • A short social history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the 20th century, written for an undergraduate audience. (JPN174, $43.40)
	Herons and Egrets of the World, A Photographic Journey • James Hancock • NATURAL HISTORY • A photographic survey of all 47 species and subspecies of herons. (BRD09, $29.95)
	Hired Swords, The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan • Karl F. Friday • HISTORY • A scholarly history of court-warrior relationships in the 7th to 12th centuries. (JPN146, $26.95)
	Hiroshima • John Hersey • HISTORY • Never sensational, this classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey, first published in 1946, puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians. (JPN20, $7.50)
	The History of Gardens • Christopher Thacker • NATURAL HISTORY • A standard world history of gardens, well illustrated and wide-ranging, covering everything from Zen gardens in Japan to English country gardens. (GRD09, $41.95)
	A History of Japan • Conrad D. Totman • HISTORY • A revised edition of Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. Popular in university courses. (JPN199, $50.95)
	A History of Japan, From Stone Age to Superpower • Kenneth G. Henshall • HISTORY • A brief, accessible history of the economic transformation of Japan. (JPN133, $21.95)
	Hitching Rides With Buddha • Will Ferguson • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • As irreverent as ever, Will Ferguson tracks cherry blossoms from Kagoshima to Rishiri Island in this rollicking report from the cultural frontlines in Japan. (JPN188, $14.00)
	The Illustrated Book of Five Rings • Miyamoto Musashi • Thomas Cleary • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The original account of samurai philosophies and warfare by the swordsman and samurai Miyamoto Musashi, originally published in 1643. (JPN206, $24.95)
	In the Ring of Fire, A Pacific Basin Journey • James Houston • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A lyrical narrative of the author's journeys through Japan, Indonesia, Micronesia, Hawaii and California. (PAC45, $14.95)
	The Inland Sea • Donald Richie • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • Richie's book, on its surface a travel account, is a beautiful reflection on all things Japanese by one of the country's most acute observers. Anyone with an interest in Japan would enjoy this book, those on a voyage through the inland sea even more so. (JPN13, $16.95)
	Insight Guide East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • An illustrated guide to the history, culture and traditions of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan featuring 250 color photographs and 16 maps. (ASA27, $24.95)
	Introduction to Japanese Architecture • Michiko Kimura Young • David Young • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A brief overview of Japanese architecture from early settlement through the 20th-century with 270 watercolors and color photographers. (JPN171, $34.95)
	Japan Atlas, A Bilingual Guide • Kodansha International • GUIDEBOOK • This newly revised, one-of-a-kind guide features large-scale regional maps, as well as maps of major cities, tourist areas, transportation, national parks and historic spots. Kodansha's guide is the only atlas that includes place-names in English and Japanese on all 68 maps. (JPN208, $24.00)
	Japan Bilingual Map • Kodansha International • GUIDEBOOK • This full-color double-sided map includes the entirety of Japan at a scale of 1:500,000, as well as individual maps of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya and Fuji-Hakone. (JPN209, $14.95)
	The Japan Journals, 1947-2004 • Donald Richie • Leza Lowitz • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A collection of essays from the eminent film historian and observer of Japan. (JPN141, $29.95)
	Japan, A Reinterpretation • Patrick Smith • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A thoughtful, stimulating look at the country since World War II, targeting the role of the U.S. in creating modern Japan. Highly recommended. (JPN16, $15.95)
	Japan, A Short Cultural History • George A. Sansom • HISTORY • A classic overview of Japanese culture and history, originally published in 1931. (JPN151, $36.95)
	Japan/Korea Political Wall Map • National Geographic • A National Geograpic wall map showing Japan and Korea. (JPN122, $14.99)
	Japan: Why It Works, Why It Doesn't • James Mak • Shigeyuki Abe • Kazuhiro Igawa • Shyam Sunder • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A brief social history of Japan organized as a series of 26 short essays on the economics of everyday life from pachinko and rice to vending machine, shopping, work and marriage. (JPN153, $20.00)
	Japanese Beyond Words, How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker • Andrew Horvat • GUIDEBOOK • OUT OF PRINT • A long time resident of Tokyo, Horvat explains how to dress, walk, talk, slurp, and bow your way to cultural fluency in Japanese. (JPN194, $14.95)
	Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 • Donald Keene • HISTORY • An erudite but nicely written study of Japanese and Western interactions before Comodore Perry, much of which involved the Dutch presence in Nagasaki, first published in 1952. (JPN152, $21.95)
	Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads, Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century • Yutaka Kawashima • HISTORY • A though-provoking analysis by the man who was Japan's vice minister of foreign affairs. (JPN132, $32.95)
	Japanese Garden Design • Marc P. Keane • Haruzo Ohashi • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated introduction to the aesthetics and meanings of Japanese gardens. It relates the social, religious and historical contexts to landscape and garden design. (JPN52, $30.00)
	Japanese Inn • Oliver Statler • LITERATURE • Life over four generations at a country inn. An impressionistic overview of traditional Japan solidly based on actual historic events. Illustrated with 50 Japanese prints. (JPN39, $22.00)
	The Japanese Today, Continuity and Change • Edwin O. Reischauer • Marius Jansen • HISTORY • A wide-ranging, engaging survey of Japanese culture and society by two prominent historians. (JPN83, $25.00)
	Japanese Touch for Your Garden • Kiyoshi Seike • Masanobu Kudo • Haruzo Ohashi • GUIDEBOOK • A color guide to creating a Japanese garden with step-by-step instructions on design and planting, suggested garden plans and notes on plant care, illustrated with well known gardens. (JPN172, $25.00)
	Japanese, A Language Map • Kristine K. Kershul • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (JPN177, $7.95)
	Kyoto Map • Periplus Maps • This convenient map includes detailed information on Old Kyoto. It shows different sections of Kyoto and surrounding areas at a variety of scales, ranging from 1:12,000 to 1:500,000. (JPN27, $8.95)
	Kyoto, Seven Paths to the Heart of the City • Diana Durston • Katsuhiko Mizuno • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An oversize, nicely illustrated walking guide to seven historic districts in the city. Includes 100 color photographs and 8 very helpful full-color maps. The neighborhood descriptions are augmented by Durston's notes on architecture, food, crafts and festivals. (JPN119, $24.95)
	The Lady and the Monk, Four Seasons in Kyoto • Pico Iyer • LITERATURE • Deeply romanticized, this short novel is nonetheless redolent in the places, sights and sounds of modern day Kyoto. Iyer writes with infectious charm the story of a young American man and his affair with a bored Japanese married woman. (JPN32, $14.95)
	A Lateral View, Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan • Donald Richie • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Insightful essays tackling the arts, society and culture of modern Japan by the reigning dean of critics. (JPN01, $14.95)
	Letters to Henrietta • Lisa Chubbuck • Isabella Bird • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This extremely enjoyable collection of letters back home capture the verve and spirit of the globe-trotting spinster from the Isle of Mull. (WLD39, $22.95)
	Life of Jesus • Shusaku Endo • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (JPN156, $11.95)
	Light Verse from the Floating World • Makoto Ueda • LITERATURE • An anthology of 400 often comic 17-syllable verse pomes that reflect daily life in Edo Japan. (JPN86, $25.00)
	Liquid Jade, The Story of Tea from Wast to West • Beatrice Hohenegger • HISTORY • Barbara Hohenegger takes in the tumultuous history of tea and the tea trade, a 5,000-year journey from Japan and China to the British Empire and beyond, in this captivating history. (ASA54, $24.95)
	Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook • Yoshi Abe • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A palm-sized, handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (JPN136, $7.99)
	Lonely Planet Kyoto • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • A practical travel guide to Kyoto, covering history and culture, as well as its many temples, gardens and other attractions. With detailed day trips, travel information and 32 pages of maps, this is an excellent guide to Kyoto. (JPN60, $22.99)
	Lonely Planet Tokyo • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, practical guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style. (JPN100, $19.99)
	Lost Japan • Alex Kerr • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Originally appearing as a series of 15 articles in a Japanese magazine, long-time resident Kerr offers a wistful account of traditional culture and change in contemporary Japan. (JPN36, $10.95)
	The Making of Modern Japan • Marius Jansen • HISTORY • An epic account of Japan and its transformation from feudal society to modern superpower. (JPN88, $24.50)
	The Makioka Sisters • Tanizaki Junichiro • LITERATURE • The story of a merchant family in prewar Osaka and the strugggle of four beautiful sisters to maintain their position in society after the death of their parents, also made into a delightful film by Ichikawa. (JPN41, $15.95)
	Memoirs of a Geisha, A Novel • Arthur Golden • LITERATURE • The runaway best-selling novel about a geisha in the celebrated Gion district of Kyoto. A major feat of literary impersonation, the novel is rich in period detail and ceremony. (JPN45, $14.95)
	Midway, The Battle that Doomed Japan • Mitsuo Fuchida • HISTORY • A groundbreaking account of the Battle of Midway told from the Japanese perspective. (HWI58, $19.95)
	Modern Japanese Literature • Donald Keene • ANTHOLOGY • A sampling of Japanese literature from the 19th to 2 (JPN72, $15.95)
	Musashi, An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era • Eiji Yoshikawa • Charles S. Terry • LITERATURE • The classic samurai novel about the exploits of Miyamoto Musashi, Japan's famous swordsman and folk hero. Set in 17th-century Japan, it's a rousing, historical novel full of incident. (JPN168, $35.00)
	The Narrow Road to Oku • Basho Matsuo • Masayuki Miyata • Donald Keene • LITERATURE • FAMILY • Keene gives a precise and poetic translation, alongside the original Japanese characters, in this edition of the great poet Basho Matsuo's (1644-1694) famous journey to Oku. (JPN211, $25.00)
	National Geographic Traveler Japan • Nicholas Bornoff • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to Japan in National Geographic style. (JPN120, $27.95)
	Noguchi East and West • Dore Ashton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A good biography, by a talented writer about art. (ART16, $25.95)
	Old Kyoto, A Guide to Traditional Shops and Inns • Diane Durston • GUIDEBOOK • Wonderful, elegant essays on carefully chosen shops, often in out-of-the-way neighborhoods. (JPN24, $22.00)
	The Other Japan, Voices Beyond the Mainstream • David Suzuki • Keibo Oiwa • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of interviews with activists and human rights workers in Japan. (JPN128, $18.95)
	Our Land Was a Forest, An Ainu Memoir • Kayano Shingeru • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This lovely memoir of life on Hokkaido in the years following WWII is also an account of the disappearing traditions of the Ainu people in the face of a modernizing nation. (JPN46, $34.00)
	Out • Natsuo Kirino • MYSTERY • In this well-received mystery, Masako Katori, a middle-aged wife and mother working the night shift at a Tokyo factory, strangles her abusive husband. (JPN196, $13.95)
	Perfectly Japanese, Making Families in an Era of Upheaval • Merry Isaacs White • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An anthropological analysis of the changing nature and structure of the family in Japan over the past 100 years. (JPN169, $22.95)
	The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon • Shonagon Sei • Ivan Morris • LITERATURE • Exquisite short essays and vignettes of Japanese court life in the Heian period. (JPN76, $16.00)
	Pimsleur Quick & Simple Japanese • Pimsleur Language Method • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Japanese, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. (JPN175, $19.95)
	The Rarest of the Rare, Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds • Diane Ackerman • NATURAL HISTORY • This collection of six marvelous essays includes Ackerman's visit to the Po�o das Antas Biological Reserve, home to the world's only remaining population of wild golden lion tamarin. She also includes chapters on the Hawaiian monk seal, short-tailed albatross and monarch butterfly. (BST26, $12.95)
	Rashomon Gate • I. J. Parker • MYSTERY • This installment in the popular series set in eleventh-century Japan takes detective Sugawara Akitada to the Imperial University in Heian Kyo, which is now Kyoto. (JPN203, $14.00)
	Read Japanese Today • Len Walsh • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A classic guide to the pictorial origins, meaning and pronunciation of 300 common characters. (JPN110, $14.95)
	Religion in Contemporary Japan • Ian Reader • RELIGION • A collection of case studies of religious practices, festivals and rituals. (JPN127, $19.00)
	Religions of Japan in Practice • George J. Tanabe, Jr. • RELIGION • This scholarly overview of the culture and religion of Japan, featuring primary documetns, has much to offer the general reader. (JPN162, $37.50)
	The Rising Tide, A Novel of the Second World War • Jeff Shaara • LITERATURE • From the author of Gods and Generals comes this piece of historical fiction set during World War II in the Pacific, North Africa and throughout Europe, whose main characters are Hitler, Mussolini, Eisenhower and Churchill. (EUR235, $27.95)
	The River Ki • Sawako Ariyoshi • LITERATURE • A chronicle of three generations of women. (JPN126, $16.00)
	Rough Guide Japan • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • This sturdy guide in the British series balances a historical and cultural overview with practical travel information. (JPN166, $28.99)
	Ruins of Identity, Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands • Mark Hudson • ARCHAEOLOGY • Hudson considers race, culture and national identity in this comprehensive scholarly account of the origins of the Japanese people. Winner of the John Whitney Hall Prize (Association for Asian Studies). (JPN198, $25.00)
	Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures, Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan • William Wayne Farris • ARCHAEOLOGY • A collection of scholarly writing on archaeology in Japan. (JPN195, $36.00)
	The Samurai's Garden • Gail Tsukiyama • LITERATURE • Tsukiyama sets her poignant tale of a young Chinese man coming-of-age in a rural Japanese village in the momentous days just before WWII erupts. (JPN173, $13.95)
	Samurai, The World of the Warrior • Stephen Turnbull • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A handsomely illustrated overview of the warrior elite of early Japan. (JPN147, $29.95)
	The Sea and the Poison • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • One of many novels by the 20th-century Japanese writer, a Roman Catholic whose many works explore chistianity and morals. This one set in Tokyo during WWII. (JPN161, $11.95)
	Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide • Peter Harrison • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • A definitive, compact guide to all the world's seabirds, featuring 740 photographs. (FG16, $29.95)
	Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens • David A. Slawson • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A meditation and manual on the art of Japanese garden design. (JPN165, $30.00)
	The Secrets of Mariko, A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family • Elisabeth Bumiller • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of contemporary Japanese society as told through the life of Mrs. Tanaka and her family. (JPN142, $14.95)
	Seeing Japan • Charles Whipple • Morihiro Hosokawa • GUIDEBOOK • A wide-ranging introduction to modern Japan. Charles Whipple covers the basic elements of Japanese family and society, as well as geography, art, theater and sports. (JPN179, $35.00)
	Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine • Jacob M. Schlesinger • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The story of Kakuei Tanaka, the populist political boss who built a political machine that dominated the long ruling Liberal Democratic Party from the 1970's to the 1990's. (JPN37, $26.95)
	Shibori, The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing Tradition Techniques Innovation • Yoshiko Wada • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This book introduces techniques perfected by the Japanese in relation to shibori. (JPN78, $48.00)
	Shogun • James Clavell • LITERATURE • Clavell's immensely popular story of an English adventurer in 17th century Japan. (JPN47, $7.99)
	Silence • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • The best known work by the 20th-century Japanese novelist, about the 17th-century martyrdom of a young Portuguese missionary in Japan. (JPN155, $11.95)
	Snow Country • Edward G. Seidensticker • Yasunari Kawabata • LITERATURE • A lyrical, moving novel about the affair between a Tokyo businessman and a geisha, set at a spa in the mountains. The author won the Nobel Prize. (JPN40, $13.95)
	Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 1 • Ry-Usaku Tsunoda • William Theodore de Bary • RELIGION • A scholarly sourcebook of theological writings up through the 18th century. (JPN63, $21.00)
	Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2 • William Theodore de Bary • Donald Keene • RELIGION • A scholarly sourcebook of theological writings from the 18th to mid-20th century. (JPN64, $27.00)
	South of the Border, West of the Sun • Haruki Murakami • LITERATURE • Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) stirs jazz, neon-lit streets, out of the way shrines, hustle and bustle and wonder into this lyrical tale of love lost and found, marvelously set in contemporary Tokyo. (JPN213, $13.95)
	Stained Glass Elegies • Shusaku Endo • LITERATURE • (JPN160, $12.95)
	Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles • Matilda McQuaid • Cara McCarty • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A celebration of recent trends in Japanese textile art. (JPN79, $29.95)
	The Tale of Genji • Murasaki Shikibu • Edward G. Seidensticker • LITERATURE • The unabridged version of one of the most famous works of Japanese prose. This is the story of Genji, a romantic man in the Heian court, as written in the 11th-century by Lady Murasaki. (JPN73, $29.95)
	The Tale of Murasaki, A Novel • Liza Crihfield Dalby • LITERATURE • A richly imagined tale of Heian Japan (and the life of the author of The Tale of Genji). (JPN149, $14.95)
	Tale of the Heike • Helen Craig McCullough • LITERATURE • Japan's most famous war tale about the fall of the Taira (Heike) clan and the victory of the Minamoto (Genji) during the end of the 12th century. (JPN75, $29.95)
	Tea in Japan, Essays on the History of Chanoyu • Paul Varley • Kumakura Isao • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The authors in this collection of scholarly essays address the history, evolution and meaning of the tea ceremony in Japan. (JPN200, $25.00)
	Through Japanese Eyes • Richard H. Minear • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A survey of Japanese culture, society and people. (JPN92, $21.95)
	Thunder from the East, Portrait of a Rising Asia • Nicholas Kristoff • Sheryl WuDunn • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A study of the changing face of Asia's economic situation and its effects on the continent's culture. (ASA24, $15.95)
	Tokyo Underworld, The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan • Robert Whiting • HISTORY • A fast-paced tale of opportunism, corruption, and empire. (JPN143, $15.00)
	Turning Japanese, Memoirs of a Sansei • David Mura • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The riveting, wonderfully observed tale of a thoroughly American Sansei (i.e. Japanese-American), born and raised in California, who heads to Japan with his American wife. (JPN44, $14.00)
	Underground, The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche • Haruki Murakami • LITERATURE • A riveting portrait of the attack and its aftermath, interweaving hundreds of interviews. (JPN144, $14.95)
	The Unknown Craftsman, A Japanese Insight into Beauty • Soetsu Yanagi • Shoji Hamada • Bernard Leach • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961) presents Japanese crafts, their integral place in Japanese society, and the role of the craftsman in this an excellent overview of the foundations of the Mingei (folk-craft) movement. With 76 illustrations. (JPN116, $35.00)
	Unsui, A Diary of Zen Monastic Life • Giei Sato • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The daily life of the monastery as depicted in 97 watercolor sketches. Giei Sato looks back at his time as an apprentice with warmth and grace. (JPN145, $20.00)
	Untangling My Chopsticks, A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto • Victoria Abbott Riccardi • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this beguiling memoir, Riccardi writes with verve of cultural encounters, bewilderment and discovery in Kyoto. If you've ever parted the drapes of a Japanese restaurant to face a room full of people and blank stares, you'll really appreciate the book. With 25 recipes for traditional and less traditional Japanese dishes. (JPN135, $12.95)
	Wallpaper City Guide Tokyo • Wallpaper Magazine • GUIDEBOOK • A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (JPN204, $8.95)
	War Letters, Stories of Courage, Longing and Sacrifice • Robert Kenner • HISTORY • A dramatic presentation of letters home, produced by PBS. (WAR77, $19.98)
	Washoku, Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen • Elizabeth Andoh • FOOD • A cookbook and guide to the techniques, aesthetics, and philosphy of washoku, written by a leading English-language expert on Japanese home cooking. (JPN186, $35.00)
	The Way of Zen • Alan Watts • RELIGION • A history and introduction to the practices of Zen. (JPN71, $12.95)
	What is Japanese Architecture? A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture • Kazuo Nishi • Kazuo Hozomi • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A concise introduction to traditional Japanese buildings, from prehistory to the mid-19th century. (JPN69, $32.00)
	What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds • Gordon Matthews • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Mathews interviewed 52 Japanese and 52 Americans about what was meaningful in their lives for this provocative book. (JPN170, $26.95)
	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle • Haruki Murakami • Jay Rubin • LITERATURE • Murakami's most ambitious novel to date deals with, among other things, the scars of nationalism. (JPN107, $15.95)
	A Woman's Asia • Marybeth Bond • ANTHOLOGY • These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller. (ASA49, $17.95)
	Women of the Silk • Gail Tsukiyama • LITERATURE • In this lyrical debut, Tsukiyama sets her absorbing tale of young Pei against the backdrop of China in the years from 1919-1938. (CHN269, $13.95)
	The World of the Shining Prince, Court Life in Ancient Japan • Ivan Morris • Barbara Ruch • HISTORY • A recreation of life in eleventh-century Japan. (JPN70, $17.00)
	A Year in Japan • Kate T. Williamson • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Williamson records her extended stay in Kyoto, its architecture, gardens, culture and traditions in 350 watercolor illustrations. (JPN189, $19.95)

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