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“Many well-known writers have cited this novel as a key influence. Without it, the landscape of contemporary Japanese literature would surely look very different.” Read more...
The Best 20th Century Japanese Novels
Rie Qudan, Novelist
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A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901
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As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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Masks
by Fumiko Enchi -
Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
by Junko Kitanaka -
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai (eds)
