TOKYO JUNKIE
Follow Robert Whiting as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other.
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Yamamba
by Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich
Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and artists.
Japan from Anime to Zen
By David Watts Barton
An accessible compendium of the most important aspects of Japanese arts, culture and history, for quick reference or a longer, in-depth read, for actual and armchair travelers alike.
Tokyo Junkie
By Robert Whiting
60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.
The Minamata Story
by Akiko Shimojima
The true story of how one Japanese village suffered and survived the mercury poisoning of its waters.
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