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Apart from my books and other books and articles by Japan Intercultural Consulting consultants, I recommend:

The classics of foreigners writing about Japan

• The Chrysanthemum and the Sword – Ruth Benedict, 1946
• Empire of Signs – Roland Barthes, 1970
• The Roads to Sata – Alan Booth, 1985
• The Enigma of Japanese Power  – Karel Van Wolferen, 1989

Dated but funny and still insightful

• Max Danger – The Adventures of an Expat in Tokyo Robert J Collins, 1987
• Dave Barry Does Japan – Dave Barry, 1992

More recent foreigners writing about Japan

• Bending Through Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival  – David Pilling, 2014 (apparently a new edition is due out in 2020)
• Japan and the Shackles of the Past: What Everyone Needs to Know – R Taggart Murphy, 2015
• Shinto: A History – Helen Hardacre, 2017
• Ghosts of the Tsunami – Richard Lloyd Parry, 2018
• Japan Story – Christopher Harding, 2018
• Stranger in the Shogun’s City – A Woman’s Life in 19^th Century Japan – Amy Stanley, 2020
• Japan’s Far More Female Future – Bill Emmott, 2020

Classic Japanese novels

• The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu, 11^th century
• Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
• Silence – Shusaku Endo
• The Woman in the Dunes – Kobo Abe
• The Makioka Sisters – Junichiro Tanizaki
• I am a Cat – Natsume Soseki

Modern Japanese novels

• Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami (and most recent Killing Commendatore)
• Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
• Out – Natsuo Kirino (and many other crime thrillers)

Websites/news

Most of these have free daily newsletters

• Japan Times
• Metropolis
• Tokyo Cheapo
• Nikkei Asia and Dealstreetasia
• Japan Today

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Last updated by Pernille Rudlin at 2020-10-16.