Japan + Japanese history

Japanese literature

Book Reviews

Marshall Browne: Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn
- a Japanese policeman faces corruption, mystery and violence
Shusaku Endo: The Samurai*
- a novel of Christian faith in 17th century Japan
William Wayne Farris: Japan to 1600
A Social and Economic History
William Wayne Farris: Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures
Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
Enchi Fumiko: A Tale of False Fortunes
- love and politics in 10th century Japan
Robin D. Gill: Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!*
- 900 sea cucumber haiku, with translations and commentary
Christine Guth: Art of Edo Japan*
The Artist and the City 1615-1868
Mikiso Hane: Modern Japan
- from the Meiji restoration to the economic miracle
Mikiso Hane: Premodern Japan
A Historical Survey
Thomas P. Kasulis: Shinto
The Way Home
Okamoto Kido: The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi
- detective stories set in Edo Japan
Henry F. Mazel: Red Chrysanthemum
A Novel of Occupied Japan
James Melville: The Bogus Buddha*
- a superintendent Otani mystery, set in Japan
Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson: Southern Exposure
Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
Amélie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling
- a comic tale about working for a Japanese corporation
I.J. Parker: The Dragon Scroll
- a murder mystery set in ancient Japan
Insup Taylor, M. Martin Taylor: Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
- their scripts and how they are learned and used
Samuel Hideo Yamashita: Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies*
Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
Akira Yoshimura: Shipwrecks
- a story of a poor coastal village in medieval Japan

See also: China | Korea | Oceania