Titles for Japanese Culture Day
By Coll Rowe | November 2 2023 | HistorySociologyComparative Literature
Observations and Provocations
978-1-101-97347-9
After three decades in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country like few others. In A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, he draws on his years of experience—his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections—to illuminate his adopted home like never before. This is a playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture.
$17.00 US
Jun 02, 2020
Paperback
208 Pages
Vintage
How Japan Made the Modern World
978-1-9848-2671-8
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination.
$18.00 US
Jun 22, 2021
Paperback
368 Pages
Crown
- Economics > International and Economic Development > International Economics
- Communication > Mass Communication > Media and Society
- Communication > Mass Communication > Media History
- History > Regional History: Asia > History of Japan
- History > Topical History > History of Science and Technology
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian Studies
- Sociology > Social Institutions > Popular Culture
- Sociology > Social Institutions > Sociology of Technology
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978-0-14-310603-6
The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century.
$17.00 US
Feb 23, 2010
Paperback
256 Pages
Penguin Classics
- English > Comparative Literature: Asian > Japanese
- History > Regional History: Asia > History of Japan
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian History
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian Literature and Drama
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian Studies
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Stories
978-1-64009-369-0
Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life.
$26.00 US
Aug 09, 2022
Hardcover
240 Pages
Counterpoint
The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
978-0-525-43538-9
As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom.
$21.00 US
Feb 25, 2020
Paperback
416 Pages
Vintage
978-1-68137-597-7
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.
$17.95 US
Feb 22, 2022
Paperback
288 Pages
NYRB Classics
- English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- English > Comparative Literature > Women in Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: Asian > Japanese
- English > Literature > Women and Literature
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian Literature and Drama
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Literature
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978-0-14-310726-2
From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic.
$30.00 US
Mar 25, 2014
Paperback
784 Pages
Penguin Classics
- English > Comparative Literature: Asian > Japanese
- History > Period History: Asia > Medieval
- History > Regional History: Asia > History of Japan
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian History
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian Literature and Drama
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A Novel
978-0-593-54266-8
From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation.
$35.00 US
Aug 01, 2023
Hardcover
720 Pages
Riverhead Books
978-0-241-31190-5
A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki MurakamiA Penguin Classic
$20.00 US
Jul 14, 2020
Paperback
576 Pages
Penguin Classics
A Novel
978-0-14-313688-0
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ’s Nerdette · The New York Public Library · Literary HubA New York Times Editors’ Choice“One of the most passionate cases I’ve ever read for female interiority, for women’s creative pulse and rich inner life.” ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker“Always expect the unexpected when you’re not expecting.” ―Sloane CrosleyA woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she’s pregnant in this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about the mother of all deceptions, for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs
$18.00 US
Aug 08, 2023
Paperback
224 Pages
Penguin Books
978-0-241-47291-0
A guiding light amid the world's chaos and a manual for rejecting materialism, in the form of writings by Japanese Buddhist monks
$13.00 US
Jun 08, 2021
Paperback
112 Pages
Penguin Books
A Novel
978-1-64009-537-3
A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband’s novels—this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the literary world
$16.95 US
Jul 25, 2023
Paperback
208 Pages
Counterpoint
Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
978-0-593-47231-6
Back with Caliber after more than a decade out of print, a revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze—the suicide pilots of World War II—as told through the eyes of survivors
$32.00 US
May 09, 2023
Hardcover
496 Pages
Dutton Caliber
Stories
978-1-83976-849-1
A new collection of short stories translated from Japanese from the cult author of Terminal Boredom
$19.95 US
Apr 11, 2023
Paperback
288 Pages
Verso Fiction
Tags: Japanese Culture Day, Japanese
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