Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods : The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912
By Sarah Thal
University of Chicago Press, 2005, 344 pages
Thal’s book is a study of the Kotohira Shrine in Shikoku, which was also known as the Konpira Temple before the Meiji Restoration. She seeks to explain how it and the […]
On Bullshit
By Harry G. Frankfurt
Princeton University Press, 2005, 80 pages
The buzz surrounding this book is just a little over the top. It seems like everyone is talking about the book, and it has even been featured on 60 Minutes and The Daily Show. I also saw it discussed in a Financial Times column. […]
Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
By Alex Kerr
Hill and Wang, 2001, 432 pages.
Dogs and Demons more accurately describes the Japan I know and lived in better than any book I’ve read. The Japan I know is a very ugly place, with concrete rivers and beaches, ugly dilapidated buildings, and […]
The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan
By William Johnston
Harvard University Press, 1995, 432 pages.
Tuberculosis is a very serious disease. In human history it has killed millions and will continue to kill many more. In the industrialized world it is considered a very serious disease of the past. That is, if […]
Kafka on the Shore
By Haruki Murakami
Translated by Philip Gabriel
Knopf, 2005, 436 pages.
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“Kafka on the Shore†is the story of 15 year old Kafka Tamura, who runs away from his father and his home in Tokyo, and finds his way to a small private library in Takamatsu, in Shikoku. But “Kafka on the Shore†is […]