Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa

Karin Muller
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During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller invites the reader along for a uniquely American odyssey into the ancient heart of modern Japan. Broad in scope and deftly observed by an author with a rich visual sense of people and place, Japanland is as beguiling as this colorful country of contradictions.
Genres: JapanTravelNonfictionMemoirAsiaBiographyJapanese LiteratureAsian LiteratureCulturalBook Club
320 Pages

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