New Books About Anime & Manga
The Rough Guide is a series of travel books and guides to different cultures. They have just released a Rough Guide to Anime and a Rough Guide to Manga. http://www.japantoday.com/category/book-reviews/view/manga-and-anime-roughed-up Related Articles: Teaching Osaka-Ben to Foreigners Blood Types A rush to Himeji before renovations Japan: The Strange Country Isle of Man schoolgirl becomes an anime [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Japan | Permalink | No Comments »Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is the most popular Japanese author outside of Japan. I’ve read his Norwegian Wood, which I really enjoyed. I also read his non-fiction book about the Tokyo subway gas attacks. I have a copy of Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World at home, but I haven’t read it yet. His latest [...]
Posted by Aidan under Culture, Culture - Japan | Permalink | No Comments »Lost Japan
I recently read a book called Lost Japan by an American writer Alex Kerr. It was really interesting and I learned a lot of things about Japan that I didn’t know. He originally wrote the book in Japanese and it was called Utsukushiki Nippon no Zanzo. It won the 1994 Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for [...]
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