A penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural perspective.

This book is destined to be a classic in Japan scholarship."—Laura Miller, author of Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics

"Yukio Mishima's Runaway Horses is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.

Two stories, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow," told through the eyes of a pair of contemporary young japanese women, deal with the themes of mothers, love, transsexuality, kitchens, and tragedy.

This is a photographic exploration of the characteristic colours of Japan that have appeared repeatedly throughout the centuries in everything from everyday utensils to works of high art.

Nineteenth-century Japanese novel concerned with man's loneliness in the modern world.

With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking vision of the stratagems of marital warfare, the author tells of the shrewd but charming Kuzu who must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality.

The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan.