With the HBO adaptation of Tokyo Vice now popular the world over, journalist Jake Adelstein returns with a long-awaited sequel: Tokyo Noir.
A new English translation of Takaoka’s Travels by Japanese author Shibusawa Tatsuhiko is a funny, fantastical fever dream.
‘Emergent Tokyo’: Ever wondered what makes up the ‘secret sauce’ for the world’s biggest city? Then this book will be required reading. Plus, an interview with one of Emergent Tokyo’s co-authors.
Ito Hiromi’s The Thorn Puller tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering while also illuminating the bittersweet joy of being alive.
An historian and scholar of Japan uses her knowledge and talent to bring the story of one 19th-century Japanese woman to life.
Okinawa is an island rich with a history spanning back to the days of the Ryukyu kingdom, but it’s also home to a people and
“When people no longer need things, or if they hate them, they destroy them… If people love things however, they care for them and make them last.” (Of Arcs and Circles, p. 46)
Tokyo is truly a cuisine capital, admired worldwide. Now, the cocktail and bartending styling of Japan gets its own in-depth treatment in this new book.
UJ staff writer Dr. Nyri Bakkalian reads and critiques James Clavell’s epically long-winded 1975 novel “Shogun” so you don’t have to.
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