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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