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Jan7

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

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Jun3

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.
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Jun2

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 the [...]

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