Understanding Modern Japan

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Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 696,769 ratings
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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan 3.90 avg rating β€” 16,724 ratings
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Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman 3.68 avg rating β€” 349,252 ratings
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche 3.91 avg rating β€” 21,853 ratings
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Kitchen
Kitchen 3.90 avg rating β€” 121,528 ratings
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The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 72,734 ratings
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Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami 3.73 avg rating β€” 465 ratings
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Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan
Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan
by: Alex Kerr
3.77 avg rating β€” 1,242 ratings
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Out
Out 3.94 avg rating β€” 45,885 ratings
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 3.97 avg rating β€” 23,513 ratings
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No Longer Human
No Longer Human 3.95 avg rating β€” 228,490 ratings
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Coin Locker Babies
Coin Locker Babies 3.80 avg rating β€” 9,419 ratings
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
Strange Weather in Tokyo 3.69 avg rating β€” 49,439 ratings
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Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman
Goodbye Madame Butterfly: Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman 3.67 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
Where the Wild Ladies Are 3.77 avg rating β€” 6,376 ratings
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The Guest Cat
The Guest Cat 3.55 avg rating β€” 34,199 ratings
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan 4.20 avg rating β€” 7,743 ratings
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Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) 4.16 avg rating β€” 22,261 ratings
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Stupeur et tremblements
Stupeur et tremblements 3.74 avg rating β€” 42,507 ratings
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
If Cats Disappeared from the World 3.79 avg rating β€” 113,415 ratings
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An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World 3.78 avg rating β€” 43,690 ratings
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Sweet Bean Paste
Sweet Bean Paste 4.06 avg rating β€” 66,974 ratings
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan 3.73 avg rating β€” 1,995 ratings
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea / Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Confessions of a Mask
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea / Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Confessions of a Mask 3.84 avg rating β€” 49,524 ratings
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Almost Transparent Blue
Almost Transparent Blue 3.29 avg rating β€” 12,927 ratings
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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids 3.81 avg rating β€” 5,307 ratings
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Heaven
Heaven 3.79 avg rating β€” 80,600 ratings
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Kitchen
Kitchen 3.90 avg rating β€” 121,528 ratings
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Fires on the Plain
Fires on the Plain really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,710 ratings
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Ink (Paper Gods, #1)
Ink (Paper Gods, #1) 3.66 avg rating β€” 10,024 ratings
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Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras
Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras 4.66 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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Hooper's War
Hooper's War 4.08 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
by: Pico Iyer
3.81 avg rating β€” 2,061 ratings
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Japanese Millennials
Japanese Millennials it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Neon Spectacular: Japan: A Photographic Documentary of the Japanese Neon Industry
Neon Spectacular: Japan: A Photographic Documentary of the Japanese Neon Industry really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life 3.90 avg rating β€” 7,002 ratings
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How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart 3.83 avg rating β€” 808 ratings
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Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan
Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan 4.27 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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Other Side River: Free Verse
Other Side River: Free Verse 4.58 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Japan Is Not Flat Like Its Girls: 46 Days Pushing Across The Country
Japan Is Not Flat Like Its Girls: 46 Days Pushing Across The Country 3.52 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan
Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Japanese Dream
Japanese Dream 4.33 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan 4.41 avg rating β€” 417 ratings
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Housekeeper and the Professor 4.05 avg rating β€” 91,332 ratings
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The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
by: Naoko Abe
3.90 avg rating β€” 1,339 ratings
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder
The Lonesome Bodybuilder 3.57 avg rating β€” 5,765 ratings
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Surviving in Japan: Awkward days with shakes, escape and Awakening
Surviving in Japan: Awkward days with shakes, escape and Awakening 4.80 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan
Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan 4.16 avg rating β€” 414 ratings
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
The Nakano Thrift Shop 3.37 avg rating β€” 14,374 ratings
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life 3.75 avg rating β€” 84,646 ratings
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Japanese Cinema
Japanese Cinema 3.97 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
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Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics 4.05 avg rating β€” 356 ratings
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Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan 3.84 avg rating β€” 970 ratings
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Lost Japan
Lost Japan
by: Alex Kerr
3.79 avg rating β€” 3,855 ratings
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles 4.33 avg rating β€” 95,680 ratings
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America and the Four Japans: Friend Foe Model Mirror
America and the Four Japans: Friend Foe Model Mirror 3.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation 3.78 avg rating β€” 806 ratings
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Vibrator
Vibrator 3.19 avg rating β€” 654 ratings
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Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga 3.91 avg rating β€” 252 ratings
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The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,864 ratings
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Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics
Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics 3.92 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II 4.15 avg rating β€” 5,020 ratings
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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino 3.44 avg rating β€” 6,933 ratings
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Japan at War: An Oral History
Japan at War: An Oral History 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,001 ratings
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The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story 3.72 avg rating β€” 149 ratings
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Zen and Japanese Culture
Zen and Japanese Culture 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,020 ratings
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Yoko's Diary
Yoko's Diary
by: Paul Ham
3.94 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change
Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change 3.63 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Falling Blossom
Falling Blossom 3.71 avg rating β€” 202 ratings
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The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs
The Vanished: The "Evaporated People" of Japan in Stories and Photographs 3.76 avg rating β€” 462 ratings
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing 4.25 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life 3.99 avg rating β€” 440 ratings
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The Emperor's Sea Eagle
The Emperor's Sea Eagle
by: Abe Zenji
3.63 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running
The Way of the Runner: A Journey into the Fabled World of Japanese Running 3.80 avg rating β€” 3,215 ratings
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Ash Garden
Ash Garden 3.33 avg rating β€” 771 ratings
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 3.88 avg rating β€” 386,284 ratings
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A Pale View of Hills
A Pale View of Hills 3.79 avg rating β€” 41,035 ratings
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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,677 ratings
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The Commoner
The Commoner 3.52 avg rating β€” 5,081 ratings
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Hachi-Ko: The Samurai Dog
Hachi-Ko: The Samurai Dog 4.48 avg rating β€” 237 ratings
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The Setting Sun
The Setting Sun 3.98 avg rating β€” 39,501 ratings
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Cherry Ingram
Cherry Ingram
by: Naoko Abe
3.90 avg rating β€” 1,339 ratings
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The Sea and Poison
The Sea and Poison 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,694 ratings
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All The Lovers In The Night
All The Lovers In The Night 3.69 avg rating β€” 45,186 ratings
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Schoolgirl
Schoolgirl 3.99 avg rating β€” 22,642 ratings
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The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)
The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1) 3.72 avg rating β€” 77,574 ratings
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The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)
The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1) 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,327 ratings
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Seventeen & J
Seventeen & J 3.60 avg rating β€” 604 ratings
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Diary of a Void
Diary of a Void
by: Emi Yagi
3.49 avg rating β€” 27,717 ratings
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld 3.89 avg rating β€” 3,097 ratings
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Fault Lines
Fault Lines 3.71 avg rating β€” 16,442 ratings
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Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima 4.27 avg rating β€” 8,472 ratings
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The Inland Sea
The Inland Sea 3.85 avg rating β€” 566 ratings
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Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan
Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan 3.47 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan
The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan 3.88 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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The Films of Akira Kurosawa
The Films of Akira Kurosawa 4.31 avg rating β€” 543 ratings
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Inventing Japan: 1853-1964
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 3.68 avg rating β€” 1,049 ratings
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Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan
Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan 4.06 avg rating β€” 472 ratings
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Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and other Japanese Cultural Heroes
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and other Japanese Cultural Heroes 3.90 avg rating β€” 292 ratings
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Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1)
Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1) 3.32 avg rating β€” 2,464 ratings
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