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“What I found interesting with this book was that it explains social norms and behaviours and contemporary issues in Japan. By reading this textbook, you will have a better understanding of how Japanese society works and how Japanese people think. So for people going to Japan, particularly for study abroad but even for a short stay, I think this textbook will help.” Read more...
The Best Books to Learn Japanese
Kazuki Morimoto, Linguist
Our most recommended books
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Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
by Junko Kitanaka -
The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
by Eiko Ikegami -
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai (eds) -
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami & translated by Jay Rubin -
The Inugami Curse
by Seishi Yokomizo & Yumiko Yamazaki (translator) -
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
