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Academic and lay analysis of Japanese culture resulting from time embedded in it. For now, not about travel or "I spent a year in Japan go me"-style works.

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1		Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan by Leslie Helm (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 352 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2		Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras by Leza Lowitz (Goodreads Author) 4.66 avg rating — 65 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3		Refuge of the Honored: Social Organization in a Japanese Retirement Community by Yasuhito Kinoshita 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4		Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family by Matthews Masayuki Hamabata 3.66 avg rating — 47 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5		Changing cultures, changing lives: [an ethnographic study of three generations of Japanese Americans] (The Jossey-Bass behavioral science series) by Christie W. Kiefer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6		Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald Dore 3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7		Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951-1975 by Robert J. Smith really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8		Takashima, a Japanese fishing community by Edward Norbeck 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9		Changing Japan by Edward Norbeck liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10		Doing Fieldwork in Japan by Theodore C. Bestor 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11		Being an Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Eleven Cultures, by George D. Spindler 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12		Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 11) by Theodore C. Bestor 3.83 avg rating — 170 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13		Neighborhood Tokyo by Theodore Bestor 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14		Fast Food/Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System (Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series) by Richard Wilk (Editor) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15		A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson 3.88 avg rating — 157 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16		Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan by John K. Nelson 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

16 books · 3 voters · list created March 11th, 2014 by Ahmed (votes) .

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