Bibliography Recommended by JFMFers

 

The following is a partial list of books on Japan:

 

 

·           Confucius Lives Next Door  by TR Reid

 

          A look at Confucius and his influence on Japan

 

 

·           Japan's New Middle Class and Japan as Number One  by Ezra Vogel

 

Sociological study of the then-emerging Japanese middle class and Japanese technological achievements

 

 

·           The Japanese School  by Benjamin Duke

 

Study and analyses of Japan's economic growth and features of the Japanese and U.S. education systems.  Duke was involved in the post-war Japanese education reform by the U.S. Occupation Army.

 

 

·           With Respect to the Japanese  by John Condon

 

          Various cultural features of the Japanese and Japanese society

 

 

·           The Japanese  by Edwin O. Reischauer

 

          An authoritative book.  Reischauer authored numerous books on Japan and served

 

          as Ambassador to Japan in the early 1960s.

 

 

·           Japan Is Not All Raw Fish and Son of Raw Fish  by Don Maloney

 

          Collection of essays on a businessman and his family's experiences in Japan

 

 

·           Japanese Lessons  by Gail Benjamin

 

Overview of Japanese school system compared to that of U.S. by an American woman whose children attended Japanese primary school

 

 

·           The Making of Modern Japan  by Marius Jansen

 

Published by Harvard U. Press, Nov. 2000. 

 

 

·           Frommer’s Japan Guide  by Macmillan

 

 

·           Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War 2　by John Dower

 

The book won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and is a real eye-opener in terms of the psychological, social, political and economic elements of Japan's defeat, e.g. what really happens when democracy is imposed on a hereditary monarchy.

 

 

·           Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan 　by Harvard's Herbert Dix

 

 

·           A Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients and Culture  by Richard Hosking

 

 

 

·          Comparing Cultures: Readings in Contemporary Japan, The Japanese Educational Challenge and The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America  by Merry White

 

 

 

·           The Road to Sata and Looking for the Lost: Journeys into a Vanishing Japan　　by Alan Booth

 

Booth was an Englishman who hiked all over Japan, way off the beaten path.

 

 

·           Lost Japan　by Alex Kerr

 

Intriguing and depressing, Kerr relates his experience of seeing Japan covered by concrete and being made "modern"

 

 

Plane Ride Reading

 

·           Son of Raw Fish  by Don Maloney

 

 

·           Audrey Hepburn’s Neck  by Alan Brown

 

Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn's Neck is also a shrewd study of cross-cultural issues, and of romantic and familial love.

 

 

·           Mystery Series by Sujata Massey

 

 

The Salaryman’s Wife, Zen Attitudes, The Flower Master and Floating Girl

 

 

The series reveals a deep knowledge of Japan as experienced through the main character, and an ex-pat,half-Japanese young woman.

 

JFMFers on the web http://www.fulbrightmemorialfund.jp/fmfers.html

 

Peggy Steffens 2000 http://www.amphi.com/%7Epsteffen/fmf/

Dr. Mariella Harold 2001 http://utminers.utep.edu/mherold/

Marycaye Dover 2007 http://www.westvalleyschool.com/Dover/index.html

Kristie Lent 2007 http://www.triway.k12.oh.us/tjhs/kristielentupdates.html

Holly Hatcher-Frazier 2007 blog http://wtmiddleschool.learnerblogs.org/

Mary Macklin 2007 blog http://macklinjapan.blogspot.com/

Timothy Dobbins 2007 weblog http://groups.google.com/group/jfmf-2007-june?lnk=li&hl=en

Mara Gano October 2007 http://www.tripdiary.com/maragano/Japan

David Besozzi October 2007 blog http://admin.bhbl.neric.org/~dbesozzi/FOV2-00026BB2/FOV2-00025AEB/ 

Victoria Walchak 2006 blog http://victoriawalchak.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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