Author: Chris Rowthorn

Japan is a world apart a cultural Galapagos where a unique civilization blossomed, and thrives today in delicious contrast of traditional and modern. The Japanese spirit is strong, warm and incredibly welcoming. Chris Ro ...

Author: Brandon Presser

What Will Your Tokyo Encounter Be?Waking at dawn for the freshest sushi breakfast at Tsukiji Market?Soaking away your cares the traditional way in a popular neighborhood "onsen"?Sipping sake in the tiny bars of illustrio ...

Author: Lonely Planet

right meal with our menu decoderNever get stuck for words with our 3500-word two-way dictionaryWe make language easy with shortcuts, key phrases & common Q&A s Feel at ease, with essential tips on culture & manners
L ...

Author: Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers

"Mike Rogers is a one-man United Nations. With a wickedly astute sense of humor he successfully cross-pollinates two seemingly divergent worlds with daring insight and aplomb. He's a fearless David in a land of Goliaths; ...

Author: David Gilby

A long-awaited collection from the much-admired editor of the fourW anthologies, Death and the Motorway traverses intimate and intellectual ground here and abroad with surety and insight. David Gilbey's poems are often s ...

Author: Declan Hayes

Why do Japanese mothers put their babies into coin lockers? And why is Japan the world's biggest brothel of teenybopper hookers? Read 'The Japanese Disease: Sex and Sleaze in Modern Japan" to find out. "The Japanese Dise ...

Author: Isabella L. Bird

Suffering from an unspecified illness, Isabella Bird left her English home in 1878 journeying to Japan to "improve her health." Her unorthodox cure consisted of buying a local horse and exploring the islands of the reclu ...

Author: Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elaborate system of barriers, or sekisho, and travel permits; commoners, however, found ways to circumvent these barriers, f ...

Author: David D Duff

In "Ero-Samurai," David Duff tells the compelling story of love, sex, romance, sex, Japan, sex, and Kyoto.

"Ero-Samurai" seeks the answer to the age-old question: "Why are Japanese women so desirable?"

Author: International Business Publications

Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.

Author: IBP USA

Foreign policy, domestic policy, political system and parties, government and administrative structure, international activity and more. Updated annually

Author: Leslee Inaba Wong

The 'Inaba Ladies"-ten American women spanning three family generations on a whirlwind tour of Japan. With good-natured chiding and humor, these shop-till-you-drop women amaze, frustrate, and charm their Japanese guides, ...

Author: International Business Publications

Business intelligence information for successful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more. Updated annually

Author: Kodansha International

This is the updated third edition of an atlas first published in 1998. During the past six years, the transportation network of the metropolitan area of Tokyo has changed a good deal. In the case of the subway system, li ...

Author: Samuel Lee

Understanding Japan through the Eyes of Christian Faith. is a fascinating book, combining Sociology and Christian worldview in a systematic manner and simple language. Samuel Lee has skillfully examined various facets of ...

Author: Gregory Shepherd & Ruben L. F. Habito

"Deeply involving, instructive, and capable of touching any reader who cares about the search for meaning."--Mitch Horowitz, author of "Occult America"

"In being so frank about his own struggles and fantasies, Greg' ...

Author: Joseph Honton

Every journey is an adventure, but when a major earthquake strikes Japan, triggering cataclysmic events, the author's travels are cut short. What starts out as a quest to discover the sacred meanings of the native Shinto ...

Author: Ph.D. Sherry Renmu Shepherd

In a truthful tale set solidly in a foundation of analytical psychology, esoteric Buddhism and personal/ transpersonal memoir, this is a story of dreams and dreaming, spiritual quest, discernment and correct creative act ...

Author: Bob Gaulke

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. East Asia Studies. Travel Writing. Japanese girl gangs addicted to tea... Sullen middle school boys and the parents who ignore them... Teachers obsessed with The Carpenters... Cartoon robots ...

Author: Amedee Baillot de Guerville

What they were saying in 1904 . . . "Monsieur de Guerville is a passionate, and perhaps overly partial, friend of Japan. What he describes for us [in AU JAPON] is what he himself witnessed-the festivals, the dinners, and ...