Japan isn’t always an easy place to understand. Sometimes, for the innocent and unknowing foreigner, it can seem all but impossible. What he needs is knowledge, and prodigious reading can only help. So, at the risk of sounding pedantic, I offer here a list of books that I think ...

Written by Aaron Krall Japan is my second foster-country in a row to be involved in a dispute over an island.　That seems strange upon first glance, but it makes perfect sense when one learns that　a.) every country in Asia is involved in an argument over an island, and b.) th ...