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Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
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Include books by the same authorAmerican Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Matthew Polly · 359 pages
Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Later, Matthew decided to pursue this quixotic dream: he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to find a
Iron and Silk
Mark Salzman · 211 pages
An American describes his experiences after his arrival in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, including wushu training and life in post-Mao China.
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
Bruce Feiler · 321 pages
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about Ameri
For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan
Sam Baldwin · 210 pages
Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan
Aimee Major-Steinberger · 180 pages
90-Day Geisha: My Time as a Tokyo Hostess
Chelsea Haywood · 308 pages
"Millionaires, surgeons, serial killers, CEOs: 'What are your hobbies?' Step into the surreal world of a Tokyo hostess club and gain an exclusive, underground pass through the eyes of author Chelsea Brennan as she attempts to understand a way of life unique to the Japanese, all the while experiencing six-hundred dollar dinners, kabuki theatre, Harajuku shopping sprees, and first-class trips to 'An
The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World
Tracy Slater · 323 pages
"In this memoir of travel and love, a fiercely independent American woman finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu. In Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic, Tracy had carefully constructed a life she loved in her beloved hometown of Boston. But everything was upended when she fell head
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
Anthony Bourdain · 288 pages
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
Pico Iyer · 337 pages
A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan
Gertrude Adams Fisher · 486 pages
Lost Japan
Alex Kerr · 270 pages
Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years.Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualised world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, tells how he stumbled on a hidden valley that became his home...and exposes the environmental and cult
Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
Matthew Amster-Burton · 264 pages
"Everyone knows how to live the good life in Paris, Provence, or Tuscany. Now, Matthew Amster-Burton makes you fall in love with Tokyo. Experience this exciting and misunderstood city through the eyes of three Americans living in a tiny Tokyo apartment. Follow 8-year-old Iris on a solo errand to the world's greatest supermarket, picnic on the bullet train, and eat a staggering array of great, inex
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi · 110 pages
"'The Book of Five Rings' is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. 'The Book of Five Ri
The Life-Giving Sword: Secret Teachings from the House of the Shogun
Yagyu Munenori · 192 pages
North to the Orient
Anne Morrow Lindbergh · 248 pages
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
Kokichi Katsu · 178 pages
Sushi and Beyond: One Family's Remarkable Journey Through the Greatest Food Nation on Earth
Michael Booth
My Fight / Your Fight
Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz · 313 pages
Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, and new Hollywood action hero, charts her difficult path to glory. Rousey's account of the toughest fights of her life -- in and outside the Octagon -- reveals the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old, the intensity of her judo training, her battles with love, her meteoric rise to fame, the s
Confessions of a Texan in Tokyo
Grace Buchele Mineta · 188 pages
A Town Like Paris: Living and Loving in the City of Light
Bryce Corbett
Fleeing London, in search of adventure and determined to sample some of the famed delights of the City of Light, our hero arrives in Paris with only a suitcase and a determination to have the time of his life. He launches himself into la vie parisienne, throws himself at the local female population and quickly discovers his down-home Aussie charm has no currency in France. Like the monotonous seri