Japanese: Recommended Titles for Japanese Language, Culture & History

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--Spei2 15:23, 2 January 2008 (EST)

Books at Our Library

• Botchan by Natsume Sōseki and newly translated by J. Cohn

• A companion to Japanese history

• The chrysanthemum and the sword : patterns of Japanese culture
  

• Everyday Japanese : a basic introduction to the Japanese language & culture
  

• Japanese culture
  

• The Japanese achievement : a short history of Japan and its culture
  

• Japanese culture and behavior : selected readings
  

• The Japanese experience : a short history of Japan
  

• Kanji handbook

• Kodansha's furigana English-Japanese dictionary : the essential dictionary for all students of Japanese.
  

• Kotoba no ehon, a i u e o
  

• Living Japanese, diversity in language and lifestyles = [Ikita Nihongo, samazama na kotoba, samazama na seikatsu
  

• The narrow road to Oku = Oku no hosomichi
  

• Pictorial encyclopedia of Japanese culture : the soul and heritage of Japan
  

• Nihongo noryokushiken 3-4 kyu jyuken mondaishu = Practice questions for the Japanese language proficiency test level 3-4
  

• Dave Barry does Japan = Deibu Bari ga "Nihon o suru"
  

• I am a cat by Sōseki Natsume
  

• The mountain is moving : Japanese women's lives
  

• Manga : sixty years of Japanese comics
  

• Festival in my heart : poems by Japanese children
  

• The half-life of awareness : photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki : 21 September-10 November 1995
  

• Migrations and cultures : a world view
  

• Tae kwon do : the ultimate reference guide to the world's most popular martial art
  

• Inubaka. 1 : crazy for dogs
  

• Megatokyo. Volume 4
  

• The street of a thousand blossoms
  

Audio & Visual Materials at Our Library

• Tōkyō monogatari [videorecording = Tokyo story]
• Animated classics of Japanese literature. The harp of Burma, parts 1 & 2 ; Season of the sun
  

• Animated classics of Japanese literature. The Izu dancer, The dancing girl, and A ghost story

• Botchan, parts 1 & 2 ; Student days

• Flags of our fathers

• Letters from Iwo Jima
  

• Japan's longest day

• Yōjinbō

                                                                     Last Revised Day: 01/02/2008