Japan
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Now and Zen: Notes from a Buddhist Monastery
'In Japan we have an expression, 'Float like Cloud, Flow like Water' Its meaning is: to live free and unconstrained' In this short...RM58.00 -
Of Dogs and Walls
'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time' In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English,...RM7.50 -
Orphan of Asia
Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational...RM105.00 -
Out
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all...RM69.90 -
Out
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from...RM49.90 -
Out of the East: Transition and Tradition in Asia
More than two hundred magnificent, full-color photographs document the enormous productivity of eastern Asia against the background of traditional...RM350.00 -
Ozu: His Life and Films
Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one...RM154.00 -
Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art
A sweeping and lavishly illustrated overview of a transformative period in Japanese art-making Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868) witnessed the...RM165.00 -
Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection
From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in...RM299.90 -
Parade: A Folktale
On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together “Tell me a story...RM56.50 -
Piercing
Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps But this is no ordinary domestic...RM57.90 -
Popular Hits of the Showa Era
A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society, Ruy Murakami’s Popular Hits of the Showa Era is a literary karaoke...RM76.00 -
Quicksand
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an...RM60.00 -
Rackgaki: Japanese Graffiti
Dedicated to Japan's rackgaki (graffiti) scene, this book illustrates the work of major graffiti artists working in Japan today It showcases the...RM72.00 -
Rashomon and 17 Other Stories
This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie Rashomon to his later, more...RM55.50 -
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism,...RM58.00 -
Real World
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes There's dependable...RM39.90 -
Record of a Night Too Brief
The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella...RM60.00