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These 4 items are available for $60, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXJPN50)

Lonely Planet Tokyo  •  Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 264 PAGES A compact, practical guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style with a helpful section of 32 color maps (JPN100, $19.99)
Tokyo, A View of the City  •  Donald Richie GUIDEBOOK •  1999 •  PAPER  • 142 PAGES A wonderfully impractical guide to Tokyo -- Richie's home for the last 50 years, and a city he describes with affection as "an illogical, subtle, brash, teeming and utterly human place." Richie structures his essays as a geographic tour of the city, starting from its core at the Imperial Palace and branching out to surrounding neighborhoods. He digresses boldly, stopping frequently to consider the culture, history and fabric of the city. With evocative black-and-white photographs by Joel Sackett. (JPN90, $25.00)
In Praise of Shadows  •  Junichiro Tanizaki  •  Thomas J. Harper  •  Edward G. Seidensticker ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1980 •  PAPER  • 56 PAGES This essay by the great Japanese novelist, first published in 1933, offers tremendous insight into Japanese aesthetics. It's an earthy meditation on traditional Japanese art, architecture and design. Most illuminating. (JPN19, $9.95)
Tokyo Map  •  Borch Maps 2005 •  MAP A folded, laminated map of Tokyo at a scale of 1:17,000. (JPN102, $7.95)

Fodor's Tokyo's 25 Best  •  Citypack   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket map and practical guide to Tokyo, including an excellent map of the city center and essential information on its highlights. (JPN05, $11.95)
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)
A Traveller's History of Japan  •  Richard Tames   • HISTORY  •  A lively and concise narrative history of Japan and its transformation from Shinto, Shogun and Samurai traditions to 20th-century powerhouse. (JPN09, $14.95)
Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII  •  John W. Dower   • HISTORY  •  A social and political history of the postwar years in Japan. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, it's an eye-opening account by a leading scholar of Japanese-American relations at MIT. (JPN54, $18.95)
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)
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, Its History and Culture  •  W. Scott Morton   • HISTORY  •  An introduction to Japanese history, people and culture from ancient origins to contemporary society. With selections from Japanese literature and arts, anecdotes and illustrations. (JPN03, $18.95)
The Book of Tea  •  Kakuzo Okakura   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A graceful, witty meditation on Japanese aesthetics and culture as reflected through the tea ceremony. A celebrity and cultural ambassador, Okakura was a curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. (JPN21, $9.95)
Japanese Art  •  Joan Stanley-Baker   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Concise, thoroughly illustrated and comprehensive, this handsome book in the "World of Art" series is a fine survey of Japanese art from the prehistoric period to modern Japan. With 167 illustrations. (JPN08, $18.95)
The Art and Culture of Japan  •  Nelly Delay   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Lavishly illustrated, this handy pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series introduces the art, architecture and culture of Japan. With 165 archival and modern illustrations and a section of original documents. (JPN51, $12.95)
Angry White Pyjamas, A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police  •  Robert Twigger   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Sedentary, 30-year-old Twigger' account of a grueling, ill-advised 11-month course in the marshall arts and of life as an English teacher in Tokyo in the 1990s. (JPN298, $15.00)
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)
Wrong About Japan  •  Peter Carey   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The Booker Prize-winning novelist's amusing encounters with manga artists and other icons of Japanese popular culture in the company of his anime-obsessed 12-year-old son. (JPN293, $11.95)
Donald Richie Reader, 50 Years of Writing on Japan  •  Donald Richie  •  Arturo Silva   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A wonderful selection of essays, criticism and other writing from Richie's many books, published articles and unpublished diaries on Japan. He covers a wide range of topics and interests, including travel, film, aesthetics and Zen Buddhism. (JPN89, $19.95)
Travelers' Tales Japan  •  Donald W. George  •  Amy G. Carlson   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of stories and essays by famous writers that capture experiences traveling through Japan. With a range of styles and topics, this book is a great travel companion. (JPN48, $18.95)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)