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Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me

10 best books like Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me (Lisa Fineberg Cook): Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa, North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter, Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, Japan: A Reinterpretation, Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China, 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan, The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P, Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure, Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess

Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
AuthorKarin Muller
During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller invites the reader along for a uniquely American...
North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter
AuthorSakie Yokota
On November 15, 1977, 13 year-old Megumi Yokota disappeared without a trace while on her way home from school. Twenty years later a newspaper revealed she was abducted by North Korean operatives and was still in North Korea. Megumi and at least 13 others were taken from coastal cities in Japan during...
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
AuthorBruce Feiler
ISBN0060577207
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and...
Japan: A Reinterpretation
AuthorPatrick Smith
ISBN0679745114
Current Affairs/Asian Studies

Winner of the Overseas Press Club Award
for the best book on Foreign Affairs
A New York Times Notable Book of the year

"A stimulating, provocative book . . . fresh and valuable."  
--The New York Times Book Review

In 1868, Japan...
Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan
AuthorAlan Booth
ISBN1568361483
Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far removed from the stereotypes familiar to Westerners. Whether retracing the footsteps of ancient warriors or detailing the encroachments of suburban sprawl, he unerringly finds the telling detail, the unexpected transformation,...
Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
AuthorRachel DeWoskin
ISBN0393328597
Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive,...
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
AuthorCathy N. Davidson
ISBN0822339137
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make...
The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P
AuthorRieko Matsuura
ISBN4770031165
The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P is a highly acclaimed work of fiction that won Japans most prestigious literary prize for women writers. A provocative, picaresque spin on a coming-of-age story, the novel tells of a young Japanese woman who wakes up one afternoon to discover that her big toe has turned...
Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure
AuthorPatricia Ellis Herr
When Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex was five, her over-the-top energy levels led Trish to believe that her very young daughter might be capable of hiking adult-sized mountains.

In...
Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess
AuthorLea Jacobson
ISBN0312368976
During daylight hours, the city of Tokyo is the very image of robotic conformity. At night, however, it transforms into a “floating world” of escapism, as “all-work” salarymen seek a place to play. 

Though fascinated by Japanese language and culture, American Lea Jacobson had...
Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
AuthorRobert Whiting
ISBN0375724893
"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo

In this unorthodox chronicle of the rise of Japan, Inc., Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, gives us a fresh perspective on the economic miracle and near disaster...
Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
AuthorHolly Morris
ISBN0375760636
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited...
The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Grace Under Pressure: Extreme Etiquette for the Stickiest, Trickiest, Most Outrageous Situations of Your Life
AuthorKim Izzo
ISBN0767915488
Every Fabulous Girl knows that elegant manners, proper thank-you notes, the perfect pair of shoes, and basic social savoir faire will get you through many, if not most, of life’s occasions. But what about those special situations that every girl encounters—the wince-inducing, hair-curling...
The Pure Land
AuthorAlan Spence
ISBN1841959596
The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun - a rapid rise from lowly shipping...
A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine
AuthorJohn K. Nelson
ISBN0295975008
What we today call Shinto has been at the heart of Japanese culture for almost as long as there has been a political entity distinguishing itself as Japan. A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine describes the ritual cycle at Suwa Shrine, Nagasaki's major Shinto shrine. Conversations with priests, other...
On the Narrow Road: Journey Into a Lost Japan
AuthorLesley Downer
Lesley Downer is amazing. A Londoner, her chosen field of expertise is all things Japanese.

And the books she writes! If this one is any indication, they’re wonderfully entertaining. And inexpensive. She’s a Goodreads author, too...

Ever read Shogun?

I think by now...
The River Queen
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0805078274
This story of a middle-aged woman's odyssey down the Mississippi River is a funny, beautifully written, and poignant tale of a journey that transforms a life
In fall 2005 acclaimed travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old houseboat called the River Queen, with two...
Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan
AuthorDavid Chadwick
ISBN1590304705
David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts...
At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery
AuthorRebecca Otowa
ISBN4805310782
"This portrait of Japanese country life reminds us that at its core, a happy and healthy life is based on the bonds of food, family, tradition, community, and the richness of nature" —John Einarsen, Founding Editor and Art Director of Kyoto Journal

What would it be like to move to Japan, leaving...
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
AuthorT.R. Reid
ISBN0679777601
"Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia."  --San Francisco Chronicle

Anyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply knowledgeable reporter and now he brings this...
Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
AuthorBen Hills
ISBN1585425680
It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turned out for Masako Owada. Ben Hills's fascinating portrait of Princess Masako and the Chrysanthemum Throne draws on research in Tokyo and rural Japan, at...
Country of Origin
AuthorDon Lee
Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is assigned to her case at the...
A Friend Called Anne
AuthorJacqueline van Maarsen
ISBN0142407194
In this beautifully written memoir, Jacqueline van Maarsen tells of her friendship with Anne Frank, depicting Anne as a typical, fun-loving girl. She also recounts her chilling Holocaust experience— escaping deportation by the Nazis; helplessly watching friends, including Anne, and family...
Audrey Hepburn's Neck
AuthorAlan Brown
ISBN0671526723
Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn's Neck is also a shrewd study of cross-cultural obsessions, and of erotic, romantic and familial love.
The American author Alan Brown crosses both racial and cultural lines to tell his story...
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
AuthorRobert Twigger
ISBN0688175376
Adrift in Tokyo, translating obscene rap lyrics for giggling Japanese high school girls, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger comes to a revelation about himself: He has never been fit nor brave. Guided by his roommates, Fat Frank and Chris, he sets out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from...
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