Kodansha
Umami: The Fifth Taste
98%
Highly qualified food and nutrition scientists combine with some of the world's greatest chefs to…
Nobu: The Cookbook
87%
With his multinational and ever expanding empire of thirteen restaurants, Nobu Matsuhisa has become…
Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers (+ Audio CD)
67%
Long-awaited by teachers and students, Read Real Japanese Fiction presents short works by six of…
Japanese Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary
98%
Some Japanese words and phrases, even though they lie at the core of the language, forever elude…
Kodokan Judo
58%
Judo, or the Way of Gentleness, an ideal form of physical exercise and a reliable system of…
Karate Fighting Techniques
88%
This title teaches all the various kumite techniques, and presents a systematic approach to applied…
Aikido The Complete Basic Techniques
66%
This book is a basic technical syllabus for the Yoshinkan system. It is actually a reformatted…
Best Aikido
96%
At last, the complete and authoritative introduction to all the fundamentals of Aikido, coauthored…
Japanese for All Occasions: Mastering Speech Styles from Casual to Honorific (+ CD-ROM)
85%
In Japanese, register — the way you change your words according to who you are speaking with —…
Avatars and Antiheroes: A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists
75%
Chinese contemporary art is currently enjoying a worldwide boom, fetching record-breaking prices at…
The Unencumbered Spirit: Reflections of a Chinese Sage
87%
We know almost nothing of Hung Ying-ming, except that he lived around the end of the Ming dynasty…
The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
65%
The Lone Samurai is a landmark biography of Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary Japanese figure known…
Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists
78%
Recently the West has been inundated by a steady flow of images from manga, anime, and the video…
Almost Transparent Blue
86%
Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American…
The Bamboo Sword and Other Samurai Tales
57%
The eight stories that comprise this collection were all written in the 1970s and 80s, yet vividly…
Crossfire
67%
Young, pretty Junko Aoki has an extraordinary ability she can start fires through sheer force of…
Shadow Family
75%
In Shadow Family, Miyuki Miyabe draws readers into the amorphous world of Internet chat rooms-a…
House of the Sleeping Beauties and other stories
85%
From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories exploring the interplay…
Avatars and Antiheroes
96%
Chinese contemporary art is currently enjoying a worldwide boom, fetching record-breaking prices at…
Seeing Japan
87%
A gloriously illustrated introduction to Japan today. Seeing Japan showcases the best of the…