 | A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese (Tuttle Language Library) by Kenneth G. Henshall
Buy new: £12.43 / Used from: £3.96 Guide to character stroke-order
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 | Guide to Writing Kanji & Kana: Book 1 (Tuttle Language Library) by Wolfgang Hadamitzky
Buy new: £24.65 / Used from: £7.63 Alternative guide to stroke-order I
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 | Guide to Writing Kanji and Kana: Bk. 2: A Self Study Workbook for Learning Japanese Characters (Guide to Writing Kanji & Kana) by Wolfgang Hadamitzky
Buy new: £26.10 / Used from: £9.80 Alternative guide to stroke-order II
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 | Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey by Mikiso Hane
Buy new: £24.64 / Used from: £13.52 Modern History 1
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 | Japan Before Perry: A Short History by Conrad Totman
Buy new: £14.20 / Used from: £8.14 Modern History 1 (Alternative)
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 | The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History Since 1853 by J. Hunter
Buy new: £25.99 / Used from: £9.38 Modern History 2
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 | Japan and the World Since 1868 (International Relations & the Great Powers) by Michael Barnhart
Buy used from: £26.97 Modern History 2 (Alternative)
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 | Open Empire: A History of China to 1600 by V Hansen
Buy new: £20.95 / Used from: £18.09 Modern History 3
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 | The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Buy new: £18.69 / Used from: £15.95 Modern History 3 (Alternative)
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 | Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) by Richard Bowring
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £7.33 General Background Reading 1 COMMENTARY ONLY by Prof. Bowring. The book itself you can probably find in any bookshop, and there's only room on the list for 25 books - so I thought this more useful!
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 | The Art and Architecture of Japan (The Yale University Press / Pelican history of art) by RT Paine
Buy new: £18.50 / Used from: £12.00 General Background Reading 2
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 | An Introduction to Japanese Society (Contemporary Japanese Society) by Yoshio Sugimoto
Buy new: £13.76 / Used from: £5.45 General Background Reading 3
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 | The Japanese Way of Politics (Studies of the East Asian Institute) by G Curtis
Buy new: £20.43 / Used from: £1.72 General Background Reading 3 (Alternative)
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 | Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy (Modern Governments) by J. A. A. Stockwin
Buy new: £19.29 / Used from: £16.44 General Background Reading 4
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 | Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) by T. J. Pempel
Buy new: £18.50 / Used from: £10.85 General Background Reading 4 (Alternative)
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 | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (Cambridge World Encyclopedias)
Buy new: £47.04 / Used from: £27.63 General Background Reading 5
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 | The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose)
Buy new: £11.16 / Used from: £9.93 General Background Reading 6
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 | Kokoro by Soseki Natsume
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £8.80 Recommended Modern Fiction 1
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| Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
Buy used from: £17.51 Recommended Modern Fiction 1a
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 | Some Prefer Nettles (Vintage Classics) by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £6.44 Recommended Modern Fiction 2
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 | Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Buy new: £5.63 / Used from: £1.82 Recommended Modern Fiction 3
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 | Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £11.34 Recommended Modern Fiction 4
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 | The Waiting Years: A Novel by Fumiko Enchi
Buy new: £8.31 / Used from: £5.20 Recommended Modern Fiction 5
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 | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels by Kenzaburo Oe
Buy new: £9.95 / Used from: £2.33 Recommended Modern Fiction 6
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| Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
Buy used from: £0.01 Recommended Modern Fiction 7
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