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Author: Keiji Nakazawa Translator: Richard H. Minear U.S. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9781442207479 Released: November 2010 Original release: 1995 I first learned about …
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Author: Arthur Asa Berger Publisher: Channel View Publications ISBN: 9781845411336 Released: February 2010 My review of Arthur Asa Berger's book Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis is …
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Author: John Nathan Publisher: Perseus ISBN: 9780306809774 Released: April 2000 Original release: 1974 After finishing Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, I decided that I wanted to …
Author: Charles J. Dunn Publisher: Tuttle ISBN: 9784805310052 Released: August 2008 I know very little about Japanese history beyond what I learned about World War II in high school. Well, …
Author: Jenn Barr Publisher: Huntington Press ISBN: 9781935396345 Released: August 2009 I get together with a group of people to play boardgames at least once a week. One night someone taught us …
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Author: Simon Richmond Publisher: Rough Guides ISBN: 9781858282053 Released: June 2009 I came across The Rough Guide to Anime by Simon Richard (who has also written The Rough Guide to Japan and …