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1	Book of five rings more books like this by Musashi Miyamoto add to wishlist The BOOK OF FIVE RINGS is a legendary Japanese text written in the 17th century by an undefeated samurai, Miyamoto Musashi. Like THE ART OF WAR, it contains a timeless philosophy that has been interpreted over many centuries and applied to many contexts (violent or not) that require strength, fortitude, and focus. This particular translation by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.47! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Shogun: A Novel of Japan more books like this by James Clavell add to wishlist A saga of Japan in the 1570s featuring a love triangle composed of the English adventurer John Blackthorne, a Japanese warlord, and a woman caught between two cultures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tallgrass more books like this by Sandra Dallas add to wishlist During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small town. Part thriller, part historical novel, Dallas has written a riveting exploration of the darkest--as well as the best--parts of the human heart. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $6.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Commoner more books like this by John Burnham Schwartz add to wishlist It is 1959 when Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with consequences both tragic and dramatic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment more books like this by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston add to wishlist Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath more books like this by Michael Norman, Elizabeth M Norman add to wishlist For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $17.19! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet more books like this by Jamie Ford add to wishlist Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, the times and places are brought [stirringly] to life (Jim Tomlinson, author of "Things Kept, Things Left Behind"). see all copies from $8.62! new only from $8.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Let's Learn Hiragana: First Book of Basic Japanese Writing more books like this by Yasuko K Mitamura add to wishlist This text teaches hiragana, the basic Japanese written alphabet in well-tested, step-by-step lessons for individual study. see all copies from $4.35! new only from $7.54! \| first editions \| SVS
9	My Year of Meats more books like this by Ruth L Ozeki add to wishlist In this feisty, terrifying, and ultimately heartwarming novel, two women--one in America, one in Japan--take on the beef industry, hoping to expose the dangers of hormone use in cattle farming. Winner of the Imus American Book Award, the Kiriyama Book Prize, and the Versailles World Cookbook Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. more books like this by Roland Kelts add to wishlist Anime, or Japanese animation, is Asia's equivalent of the Harry Potter phenomenon--an overseas export that has unexpectedly taken America by storm. While Hollywood struggles to fill seats, Japanese anime releases are increasingly outpacing American movies in sheer numbers and, more importantly, in the devotion they inspire in their fans. But just ... see all copies from $5.16! new only from $11.51! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Second World War more books like this by John Keegan add to wishlist By the author of "The Price of Admiralty", this book approaches the war from a thematic and periodic standpoint. The course of the war is divided into six passages and attached to each is an analytical narrative of a battle, which exemplifies a mode of warfare special to this war, such as city sieges, an air battle, an airborne operation, an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world more books like this by Haruki Murakami add to wishlist The contemporary and the mythic collide in a hard-boiled tale of computers and conspiracy theories, unicorns and ancient lands. Winner of the Tanizaki Literary Prize. see all copies from $5.30! new only from $5.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Out more books like this by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder (Translator) add to wishlist This brutal crime thriller, translated from the Japanese, exposes the daily misery of Tokyo's working class. Four women work together on the night shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Their desperate, cash-strapped existences become dangerously complicated when one of them, Yayoi, strangles her gambling-addicted, abusive husband, and her co-workers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.04! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	No-No Boy more books like this by John Okada, Lawson Fusao Inada (Designer), Frank Chin (Designer) add to wishlist John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.21! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Rain Fall more books like this by Barry Eisler add to wishlist John Rain is a fresh new thriller hero destined to be one of the most talked-about of the season. Rain is based in Tokyo, trained by the U.S. Special Forces and a veteran of Vietnam, he is a cool, self-contained loner--and he has built a steady business over the past 25 years specializing in death by "natural causes." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 more books like this by Max Hastings add to wishlist The companion volume to acclaimed military historian Hastings' critically praised "Armageddon," which told the story of the final year of the war against the Nazis, "Retribution" focuses on the Pacific theater and Japan's defiant stand against the Allies. 32 pages of photographs. see all copies from $2.43! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Grandfather's Journey more books like this by Allen Say (Illustrator) add to wishlist Inspired by memories of his grandfather, author/illustrator Allen Say presents the true story of his family's ties to two very different countries. Beginning with his grandfather's first journey from Japan to the United States, Say describes how his grandfather adapted to life in America while still remembering and missing his native country. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Yookoso!: An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese more books like this by Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku add to wishlist Based on modern principles of second-language acquisition, this text integrates the teaching of all four language skills and is accompanied by teaching materials. The illustrations (photographs, line drawings and realia) aim to provide an attractive context for language learning. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary more books like this by Seigo Nakao add to wishlist This handy bilingual dictionary contains more than 60,000 entries, including hundreds of new words and their meanings. It also includes many phrases, common expressions and idioms that show how a word is used, and separately numbered definitions for discrete senses of the entry word. The widely applied Hepburn system of Romanization is used ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers more books like this by Leonard Koren add to wishlist From the Introduction Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional. The immediate catalyst for this book was a widely publicized tea event in Japan. The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi has long been associated with the tea ceremony, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.75! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West more books like this by T R Reid add to wishlist A man who was the Tokyo bureau chief for the"Washington Post" for five years examines deep "Asian values" that inform the culture in Japan and which contribute to its economic success. Reid is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	South of the Border, West of the Sun more books like this by Haruki Murakami add to wishlist Hajime, a middle-aged Tokyo bar owner with a wife and children, is unexpectedly reunited with the girl he loved many years ago when she walks into his establishment. Permeated with the images to popular culture that are a trademark of Murakami's fiction, this novel is less wildly fantastic, more grounded in reality and human relationships, than ... see all copies from $3.10! new only from $7.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Plum Wine more books like this by Angela Davis-Gardner add to wishlist Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers, Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personal narrative. With the help of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Kitchen more books like this by Banana Yoshimoto add to wishlist Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.35! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Nisei Daughter more books like this by Monica Sone, S Frank Miyamoto (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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