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This book tells the story of Bali--the "paradise island of the Pacific"--its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Ba...

For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it neve...

Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian his...

Business in North Korea: a paradoxical and fascinating situation is interpreted by a true insider. In 2002, the Swiss power company ABB appointed F...

A Dictionary of Japanese Food helps food lovers around the world decipher the intricacies and nuances of Japanese cooking and its ingredients. Defi...

A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-...

A History of Japanese Art offers readers a comprehensive view of Japanese art through Japanese eyes—a view that is the most revealing of all perspe...

In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history--from a pop star's nu...

translated by Norma Moore Field Sōseki Natsume is considered to be one of Japan's most beloved and respected authors. And Then is ranked as one of ...

The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By w...

Westerners familiar only with stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen will be surprised by the cast of characters transla...

In Bali, what you see--sekala--is a colorful world of ceremony, ritual, dance, and drama. What you don't see what is occult--niskala--is the doctri...

translated by Sanford Goldstein and Kazuji Ninomiya Noe Ito came of age during Japan's Taisho era (1912-26), a period of widespread unrest and radi...

translated by Umeji Sasaki A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very po...

Treasured for centuries by karate's top masters, the Bubishi is a classic Chinese work on philosophy, strategy, medicine, and technique as they rel...

In Buddhism Plain and Simple, Zen priest and longtime teacher Steve Hagen presents the heart of Buddhist teachings, pared down to its essence and e...

translated by Meredith Weatherby Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: ...

translated by Phyllis Birnbaum Confessions of Love chronicles the stormy vicissitudes of love like most of Chico Uno's other writings. It is based ...

A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered—it's impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share th...

"Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic and literary worlds associated with them. At the...

Starting from the premise that lasting health requires a lifestyle that is counter to the short-term thinking and instant gratification prevalent i...

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Thoug...

translated by Clement Egerton A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and, famously, Chinese erotica, The Golden Lotus (also known as The Plum in the ...

Japanese folklore is abundant with tales of ghostly creatures and the supernatural. In Haunted Japan, author Catrien Ross reveals the legends that ...

Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese soci...

"Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day." In this book, famed author ...

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in As...

Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness acc...

This collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collecti...

This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the fi...

translated by Edwin McClellan A nineteenth-century Japanese novel concerned with man's loneliness in the modern world. The subject of "Kokoro," whi...

Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story...

edited by Donald Richie Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcadio Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ev...

translated by Shigeru Ohta and Alexander Bennett This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who-in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old-joined the Im...

Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's t...

This classic interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's famous Book of Five Rings is explicitly intended for the martial artist--as Miyamoto Musashi orig...

North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single famil...

Okinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influ...

Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter follows the adventures of two young foreigners as they travel to a remote and mysterious corner of Japan. Alon...

Widely acknowledged as the father of the Japanese short story, Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the most influential Japanese writers of all time...

translated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...

translated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...

Since its initial appearance, A.L.Sadler's imposing biography of the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu has been recognized as an outstanding contribu...

An abiding Singaporean passion, food is a central part of life on this multicultural island quite simply because there's so much of it that's so go...

This radical new approach to dealing with North Korea offers a refreshing perspective on an intransigent and deadly situation. Imagine you control ...

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled...

As the world's appetite for Japanese sushi continues to skyrocket, the Sushi Art Cookbook introduces readers to the art of creating sushi that look...

illustrated by Malthe Hasselriis This illustrated multicultural children's book presents classic Chinese fairy tales and other folklore—providing a...