books by subject
Japanese Historical Biographies

The Second World War

The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki

The Rough Guide to Japan (Travel Guide) (Rough Guides)

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time

Hiroshima (Penguin Modern Classics)

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

The Railway Man

Autobiography Of A Geisha

The Night Of The New Moon (Vintage Classics)

TO END ALL WARS: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2 (Princess Series)

Chickenhawk

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-century Japan (Classics)

The Railway Man

Reading Benedict / Reading Mead: Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)

Weary: The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop

Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

X Platoon

A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer

A Tokyo Romance: Ian Buruma

The Book of Tea: The Book of Oz (Penguin Little Black Classics)

The Railway Man

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan
