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 Mull

When the spirit of an American airman befriends a Japanese woman and her daughter in the days before the Hiroshima bomb, he races against time to save the ones

REMINGINING JAPAN: Contributors to this volume include some of the world’s most brilliant thinkers from fields as diverse as business, politics, academia, sci

Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writ

New in paperback. Of related interest: A History of Writing in Japan, by Christopher Seeley