In Ero-Samurai, noted Kyoto raconteur and expatriate David Duff relates his personal experiences with that most exotic and mysterious of creatures, the Japanese
Toriningu-pantsu are not training pants for babies who have not yet been toilet-trained. Toreningu-pantsu are sweat pants. When you jump into a swimming pool yo
This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance an
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transfo
From the Seven Samaruai and Godzilla to the Ring. this is an outstanding collection of twenty-four articles on key films of Japanese cinema, from the silent era