Dreaming in Japanese

Reading Japan

 

Japanese Language

The Japanese Language by Haruhiko Kindaichi tops my favorite Japanese language books list. 

Tokyo/Edo

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
by Anna Sherman

Tim Screech's Tokyo Before Tokyo: power and Magic in the Shogun's City

Amy Stanley's award-winning Stranger in the Shogun's City

TO:KY:OO
by Liam Wong

Popham P. (1985). Tokyo: the city at the end of the world. Kodansha International.
Reid, T.R. (1999). Confucius lives next door: What living in the East teaches us about living in the West. Random House
Seidensticker E. (1983). Low city, high city: Tokyo from Edo to the earthquake. Knopf.

 

Food

Your Home Izakaya, by Tim Anderson

The Way of the Cocktail: Japanese Traditions, Techniques, and Recipes
Momosé, JuliaRice,

Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture 
by Matt Goulding

Bloomberg: Japanese Whisky Highball is more than the Sum of its Parts

 

Language Memoirs

The Magical Language of Others

Lost in Translation

Dreaming in Hindi

In Other Words
by Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein

Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
by Deborah Fallows

All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
by Zora O'Neill

On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
by Ilan Stavans

 

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