Books on Asia
Amy Chavez, John Ross
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Books on Asia is your guide to finding quality books on Japan and Asia, including travel, literature, current events, and culture. Explore Asia in-depth. Hosted by Amy Chavez.
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Episodes (191)
Ginny Takemori on Translating Cats
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Lina Terrell on Translating Okinawa
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Igor Prusa "Scandal in Japan"
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Baye McNeil talks about Racism in Japan
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Michael Pronko's New Books: Shitamachi Scam and Tokyo Tempos
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Paul Martin on Japanese Swords
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Burritt Sabin on Yokohama and Kamakura
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Lesley Downer and How Empresses shaped Japan
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Robert Whiting—Gangsters, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies
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The Healing Power of Female Poet Otagaki Rengetsu
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Angus Waycott Walks Sado Island
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The Future of Books and AI
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Fred Schodt on His Historical Non-Fiction on Japan
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John Grant Ross on Taiwan & Japan
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Japan's 31 Passions, with John Rucynski
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Stephen Mansfield Talks Tokyo
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Translating Hiromi Ito's "The Thorn Puller" with Jeffrey Angles
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Sarah Coomber and the Female Experience Teaching in Japan
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Azby Brown on Sustainability and his Book “Just Enough”
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Traveling Japan as a Blind Person, with Maud Rowell
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Moving to Japan's Countryside with Iain Maloney
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The Spirit of Shizen: The Nature of Japan through 72 Seasons, with Robert Weis
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Cody Poulton on Japanese Performing Arts
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John Stevens, a lifetime of publishing
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Abby Denson talks Japan via Comics
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Novelist David Joiner talks “Kanazawa"
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Liza Dalby on Geisha, Kimonos, and Translating Setouchi Jakucho's "Places"
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Kathleen Burkinshaw, second-generation A-bomb victim
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Meredith McKinney on Saigyō and "Gazing at the Moon"
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Alex Kerr Discusses his Latest Book—Another Bangkok
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The Yamamba--Japanese Mountain Witch--with Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich
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Kyoto's Gion Festival: Exploring its Mysteries with Catherine Pawasarat
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The Art of the Short Story with Tina deBellegarde
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Robert Whiting Talks Baseball and Tokyo Junkie
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Wes Lang, Hiking and Trekking the Japan Alps and Mount Fuji
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Janine Beichman on translating Japanese Haiku and Tanka
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Alex Kerr, author of Finding the Heart Sutra
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Richard Lloyd Parry, author of Ghosts of the Tsunami
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Lena Baibikov, translator of Haruki Murakami's non-fiction
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William Scott Wilson, author of Walking the Kiso Road
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Barry Lancet, author of Tokyo Kill
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Juliet Winters Carpenter on translating Japanese Literature
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Judith Pascoe on Wuthering Heights in Japan
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John Dougill, founder of Writers in Kyoto
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