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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an...	Biography Of Princess Yasha 4 Beauty Of The Shadows, Come And Go - Rocket City Blues (Non-sporran) Japanese Language Book	My God! - Liz Bull Autobiography Bo Japanese Language Book	An Autobiography (Webster's Japanese Thesaurus Edition) Best Price: $28.95 This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Japanese thesaurus at the bottom...	Letters from the Far East This volume was published in 1907. From the book's Introduction: The letters here...



Who Stole the Train? This short, non? ction semi-biographical story from WWII tells of an Army Officer and five...	Howling With Sakutaro: Cries of a Cosmic Waif A Japanese literary icon, Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942), set out to unravel the workings of his...	Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese...	Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan - also includes an annotated bibliography of select works on Japanese history and literature This digital book includes an annotated bibliography of select works on Japanese history and...	An Enemy Among Friends Best Price: $10.88 In the summer of 1941, a Japanese teenager arrived in San Francisco to pursue his dream of...



Fragments of a Past: A Memoir Best Price: $18.95 An excellent piece of work by Eiji Yoshikawa. If you have read "Taiko" or...	Best of Totto-Chan (Kodansha Bilingual Books) (English and Japanese Edition) Best Price: $38.00 A biographical tale of innocence, love and courage. This book is one of a series of bilingual...	Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (Japanese Edition) Best Price: $38.45	The Romance of K'tut Tantri and Indonesia: Texts, Scripts, History and Identity I met K'tut on a freighter headed for Southeast Asia, in 1969. First of all I thought she...	Sunken red (Twentieth century lives) Told with an aching beauty...Sunken Red is a cathartic achievement in which we watch Mr....

To Japan with encouragement and hope Best Price: $4.18	Words quite fail: The life and thought of Ernest Francisco Fenollosa	Dark Skies Over Paradise The memoirs of one woman's fight to keep her and her children alive during WWII....	Disguised: A Wartime Memoir Best Price: $0.01 Not as good as the 2001 edition by a diffeent publisher. Disguised: A Teenage Girl's...	Song of Survival: Women Interned Best Price: $18.87 Thrown into the whirlwind of dark forces unleashed with the onset of World War II, a young...

Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-45 Best Price: $19.94 Anyone who calls themselves a true historian of the Pacific War should read this book. There are...	Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese Best Price: $125.00 The fall of Singapore and the brilliant victories achieved since the start of the war mean we...	Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation (Topics in Contemporary Buddhism) Best Price: $26.08 There have been many studies that focus on aspects of the history of Japanese Buddhism. Until...	Zen Haiku: Poems and Letters of Natsume Soseki Best Price: $331.50 We really get to see a different side of the great novelist Natsume Soseki in this compact...	Kristi Yamaguchi, Pure Gold (Taking Part) Best Price: $4.19 ...and for the most part, although it's geared towards a younger audience, it's a great...

Zen-Man Ikkyu (Studies in world religions)	Iron Gates Of Santo Tomas The: IMPRISONMENT IN MANILA, 1942-1945 Best Price: $8.70 Emily Van Sickle has written a wonderful memoir of her struggle during World War II to survive...	P.O.W. in the Pacific: Memoirs of an American Doctor in World War II Best Price: $19.53 Overall, it's a fine book, and I'm glad I read it. The maps were very helpful, as were...	Mishima Best Price: $49.95 On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the...	Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp Best Price: $15.00 Osamu Dazai is an award winning author from turn-of-the-century Japan who lived a relatively...

Sun & Steel (Japan's Modern Writers) Best Price: $5.00 In Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's most important writers, offers an intimate...	The House Spirit: And Other Stories Best Price: $10.98	Corregidor from Paradise to Hell Best Price: $122.23 Ben is one of those millions of young men who were children of the great depression. His...	Old Man Thunder: Father of the Bullet Train Best Price: $8.39 In the decade when the United States was building its costly but convenient interstate highway...	Sparky: Warrior, Peacemaker, Poet, Patriot Best Price: $4.74 ####################################################################################################

In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story Best Price: $24.95 One of the tragic consequences of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was...	Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival Best Price: $17.87 Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival is a remarkable and enduring tale from a...	Wake Island: The Story of a Civilian POW at Niigata, Japan 1941-1945 Best Price: $18.62	Love All Men, Have Lunch with a Few: The Boys of Bunny's Restaurant: My Father's Story as a Japanese P.O.W. Best Price: $19.88 I found this book to be very touching, written about a Japanese POW and his spiritual journey in...	Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family Best Price: $50.40 Japanese immigrant Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with nothing but big dreams. He went...

From Internment, to Korea, to Solitude: Memoir of Robert M. Wada Nisei child of a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp and later a Marine Corps Veteran of the Korean War Best Price: $14.16 I was really excited to receive an autograph from the author! He is a kind soul and I am...	Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen (Asian Voices) Best Price: $30.34 If you have read the Barefoot Gen books or seen the films, 1 & 2, you must have had many...	Jim's Journey: A Wake Island Civilian POW's Story Best Price: $24.95 This is the story of a civilian POW contracted to help build a naval air base on Wake Island...	The Principled Politician: Governor Ralph Carr and the Fight against Japanese American Internment Best Price: $10.68 Below is what I wrote for the hardback, and I have to say that this book has stayed with me, I...	My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Memories of War) Best Price: $7.81 This is the fifth book I have read about the Bataan Death March, and it is, without question,...

Pasaje a La Libertad / Passage to Freedom: La Historia De Chiune Sugihara / The True Story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler" (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $11.00 Pasaje a la Libertab is the Spanish edition of Passage to Freedom, the true story of the...	Out of the Depths - A Survivor's Story of the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Out of the depths have I cried unto to thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears he...	Flyboys: A True Story of Courage Best Price: $30.60 In a followup to Flags of our Fathers, James Bradley describes his detective work in determining...	Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.48 This penguin volume is the paperback and easily accessed translation of the 'Diary of...	So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) Best Price: $14.00 Thoughts of literary Japanese diarists during and in the close aftermath of World War II are...

Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji Best Price: $34.00	Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend Best Price: $0.01 I picked up this book from the martial arts section of my local bookstore. When I started...	I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment: (ALA Notable Children's Book, Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book) (American History Classics) Best Price: $15.40 In this book called I Am An American that I read is a really good book because it is for the...	Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family Best Price: $11.99 Contrary to the first reviewer on this site, I found Isami's House eminently readable, from...	Kokoro: Japanese Inner Life Hints Yesterday a telegram from Fukuoka announced that a desperate criminal captured there would be...

The Writings of Koda Aya, A Japanese Literary Daughter (Study of the East Asian Institute) Best Price: $2.49 I happened to read this book after watching the excellent Mikio Naruse film "Flowing"...	Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei Best Price: $4.15 Where can you start? Trying to reconstruct what's wrong w/ this book is like trying to...	Nomo: The Inside Story on Baseball's Hottest Sensation Best Price: $4.35 A profile of baseball star Hideo Nomo chronicles his successes in Japan and the United States...	Revolt in Paradise: One Woman's Fight for Freedom in Indonesia Best Price: $8.16 Revolt in Paradise is a classic and it is good to see it in print again after a long absence. It...	Los Angeles's Boyle Heights (Images of America) Best Price: $14.67 This was a gift for my mom who grew up in Boyle Heights. She thoroughly enjoyed it as did her...

Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life Best Price: $24.23 1896. The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of...	The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 Through 1994 Best Price: $79.99 This encyclopedia reference work treats a near-century's worth of Japanese films released in...	Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer Best Price: $40.00 While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the...	The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study With Translations the book is a biogaphy with translation/summary of Dazai's short stories. a very interesting...	Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival Best Price: $17.87 Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival is a remarkable and enduring tale from a...

Wake Island: The Story of a Civilian POW at Niigata, Japan 1941-1945 Best Price: $18.62	Love All Men, Have Lunch with a Few: The Boys of Bunny's Restaurant: My Father's Story as a Japanese P.O.W. Best Price: $19.88 I found this book to be very touching, written about a Japanese POW and his spiritual journey in...	Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family Best Price: $50.40 Japanese immigrant Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with nothing but big dreams. He went...	From Internment, to Korea, to Solitude: Memoir of Robert M. Wada Nisei child of a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp and later a Marine Corps Veteran of the Korean War Best Price: $14.16 I was really excited to receive an autograph from the author! He is a kind soul and I am...	Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen (Asian Voices) Best Price: $30.34 If you have read the Barefoot Gen books or seen the films, 1 & 2, you must have had many...

Jim's Journey: A Wake Island Civilian POW's Story Best Price: $24.95 This is the story of a civilian POW contracted to help build a naval air base on Wake Island...	The Principled Politician: Governor Ralph Carr and the Fight against Japanese American Internment Best Price: $10.68 Below is what I wrote for the hardback, and I have to say that this book has stayed with me, I...	My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Memories of War) Best Price: $7.81 This is the fifth book I have read about the Bataan Death March, and it is, without question,...	Pasaje a La Libertad / Passage to Freedom: La Historia De Chiune Sugihara / The True Story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler" (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $11.00 Pasaje a la Libertab is the Spanish edition of Passage to Freedom, the true story of the...	Mimi's Life Best Price: $4.94 When Mimi was three years old, her father took his wife and three young children to Iran....

From Foe to Friend: One Man's Experience in Japanese/American Trade Best Price: $22.77	My Faraway Home: An American Family's WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines Best Price: $12.94 Mary McKay Maynard has written a delightful chronicle, though it might seems strange to use the...	Flyboys: A True Story of Courage Best Price: $0.80 I think this book could have been much better and more historically appealing. Too much...	Surviving Polly Best Price: $19.95 Simon Bonsai produces and sells what are almost certainly the most beautiful Bonsai trees in...	Furusato o tsukutta otoko (Japanese Edition)

Noberu-sho: Jushosha soran (Newton database) (Japanese Edition)	Snowball (Japanese Edition) Best Price: $59.95	Kishujin: Wakayama no 100-nin (Japanese Edition)	Following the Brush: An American Encounter With Classical Japanese Culture Best Price: $12.00 In this collection of essays, John Elder, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, explores...	I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment Best Price: $23.92 A moving and absorbing account of the experiences of one internee and her family, and the mental...

Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary (Visible Evidence) Best Price: $74.97 Abe Mark Nornes has no ability to read or interpret the productivity of the films. All he can...	The Hunt for 'Tokyo Rose'	Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei Best Price: $26.00 Yasutaro Soga's Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand...	Fighting Tradition: A Marine's Journey to Justice (Intersections Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies) Best Price: $11.95 There was no tradition of discriminating against Asians in the USMC...I would refer you to Navy...	Leaves From An Autumn Of Emergencies: Selections From The Wartime Diaries Of Ordinary Japanese Best Price: $23.78 While not exactly an exciting read, most of the diaries in this book contain quite good...

Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi Best Price: $29.40 In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875 - 1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love,...	The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda : Pioneer in the Higher Education of Japanese Women Best Price: $157.40 While reading this I never felt Ume Tsuda leave the page and come to life. The book seems to...	With Only the Will to Live: Accounts of Americans in Japanese Prison Camps 1941-1945 Best Price: $18.49 The researchers who conducted the interviews for this project have done very critical work that...

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