 | An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £3.56 / Used from: £0.01 Both of Ishiguro's earlier novels are essential starting points for anyone wishing to understand Japan.
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 | A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 Everyone says it's an outstanding fictional debut - it is.
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 | Extremes: Contradictions in Contemporary Japan by G.M. Thomas
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £5.00 One of the best overviews of contemporary Japan and essential reading if you are going to Japan or, indeed if you live there.
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 | The Gardens of Japan by Teiji Ito
Buy new: £25.20 / Used from: £21.60 A stunningly beautiful book that brings the Japanese garden alive.
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 | Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art by Fran Lloyd
Buy new: £10.75 / Used from: £8.51 One of the best starting points of you want to delve into Japanese contemporary art
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 | The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £10.06 Anything that Donald Richie writes is always eloquent, beautiful and enduring.
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 | In Praise of Shadows (Vintage Classics) by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Buy new: £1.84 / Used from: £1.96 In fact everything written by Tanizaki should be on your 'must read' list.
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 | Butterflies of the Night: Mama-sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve by Lisa Louis
Buy new: £7.32 / Used from: £14.63 All you would ever want to know about Japan's seamier-side.
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 | The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese by Arthur Godman
Buy new: £7.25 / Used from: £6.98 The other side of Japan
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