Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
10 best books like Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan (Bruce Feiler): In a Sunburned Country, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan, Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa, The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan, Lost Japan, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0767903862 |
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned...
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
| Author | John W. Dower |
| ISBN | 0393320278 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
Drawing on a...
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
| Author | Will Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1841952885 |
It had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both. The resulting travelogue...
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
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...
| Author | Alan Booth |
| ISBN | 1568361874 |
ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING
Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth traversed Japan's entire length on foot, from Soya at the country's northernmost tip, to Cape Sata in the extreme south, across three islands and some 2,000 miles of rural Japan. The Roads to Sata...
Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
| Author | Michael Zielenziger |
| ISBN | 0385513038 |
The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of...
Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan
| Author | Alan Booth |
| ISBN | 1568361483 |
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,...
| Author | Alex Kerr |
| ISBN | 0864423705 |
An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future.
Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces...
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
| Author | Herbert P. Bix |
| ISBN | 0060931302 |
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial...
| Author | Evelyn Lord |
| ISBN | 0300116675 |
The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumors of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sensational as generations passed. This thoroughly...
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679738347 |
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional...
| Author | Kate T. Williamson |
| ISBN | 1568985401 |
The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for a Westerner to get to know the real Japan is to become...
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
| Author | Brigid Schulte |
| ISBN | 0374228442 |
Overwhelmed is a book about time pressure and modern life. It is a deeply reported and researched, honest and often hilarious journey from feeling that, as one character in the book said, time is like a "rabid lunatic" running naked and screaming as your life flies past you, to understanding the historical...
