Japan's sexual hang-ups exposed as women liberate themselves from joyless, sexless marriages.
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"Kawakami's interviews and reporting take us into a world where fortune tellers serve as counselors, where a female executive who turns tricks by night is seen as a heroine and where the hot blood of newlyweds quickly grows cold" "Goodbye Madame Butterfly offers a modern twist o…
"Yokohama Yankee is the first book to look at Japan across five generations with perspective that is both from the inside and through foreign eyes. Helm draws on his great grandfather's unpublished memoir and a wealth of primary source material to bring his family history to lif…
A sweeping memoir about a foreign family's five generations as outsiders in Japan
A sweeping memoir about a foreign family's five generations as outsiders in Japan
A sweeping memoir about a foreign family's five generations as outsiders in Japan.
"Yokohama Yankee is the first book to look at Japan across five generations with perspective that is both from the inside and through foreign eyes. Helm draws on his great grandfather's unpublished memoir and a wealth of primary source material to bring his family history to lif…
"Combining his lifelong interest in Japanese tradition and his personal experiences with these vengeful spirits, Davisson launches an investigation into the origin, popularization, and continued existence of yurei in Japan. Juxtaposing historical documents and legends against co…
"Combining his lifelong interest in Japanese tradition and his personal experiences with these vengeful spirits, Davisson launches an investigation into the origin, popularization, and continued existence of yurei in Japan. Juxtaposing historical documents and legends against co…
An eerie yet insightful exploration into the phenomenon of yurei, or Japanese ghosts, both past and present.