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Rainbirds
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3.48 avg rating — 7,187 ratings
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A Mortal Song
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3.70 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
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3.98 avg rating — 6,130 ratings
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Ink (Paper Gods, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 10,031 ratings
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Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
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4.02 avg rating — 2,716 ratings
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Dave Barry Does Japan
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3.76 avg rating — 3,914 ratings
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The Legend of Akikumo
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3.17 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan
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4.09 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
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The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution
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4.07 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
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4.13 avg rating — 957 ratings
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The Guest Cat
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3.55 avg rating — 35,586 ratings
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
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3.74 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
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Hello, Please! Very Helpful Super Kawaii Characters from Japan
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3.88 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Convenience Store Woman
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3.67 avg rating — 368,404 ratings
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
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3.79 avg rating — 127,788 ratings
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Pachinko
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4.34 avg rating — 615,777 ratings
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The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider's Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan
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3.86 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Shinigami Eyes (Shinigami Eyes, #1)
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3.38 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Okinawa Diet
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4.97 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn
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3.72 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Neon Pilgrim
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4.04 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Tall Travel Tales: Japan. Tokyo, Takayama and Beyond
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
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4.05 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet: Volume One
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3.96 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
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3.80 avg rating — 2,504 ratings
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Yoko's Diary
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3.96 avg rating — 367 ratings
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In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan
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3.63 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners! My Life in Japan in the 80's
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3.85 avg rating — 103 ratings
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36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
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3.95 avg rating — 726 ratings
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In The Land of the Kami: A Journey Into The Hearts of Japan
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Year in Japan
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4.01 avg rating — 1,570 ratings
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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4.33 avg rating — 102,248 ratings
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Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics
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3.93 avg rating — 355 ratings
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When the Sakura Bloom
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4.21 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
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3.73 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Ichiro
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3.63 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
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Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers
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3.66 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
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3.71 avg rating — 1,022 ratings
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Japanese Tales
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3.88 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
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Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan
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3.84 avg rating — 362 ratings
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In the Eyes of the Cat : Japanese Poetry for All Seasons
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3.87 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Riding the Trains in Japan
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3.24 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Lost in Tokyo
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3.46 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends Vol. 1
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4.24 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Japan Just for You
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Travel to Kyoto
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Neon Spectacular: Japan: A Photographic Documentary of the Japanese Neon Industry
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Meet You By Hachiko
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3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
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3.83 avg rating — 869 ratings
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Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan
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4.15 avg rating — 424 ratings
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For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan
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3.83 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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The Daydreamer Detective
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4.12 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
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3.91 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Country Living in Mountain of Japan
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Watersong
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3.74 avg rating — 731 ratings
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The Inland Sea
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3.85 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Falling Blossom
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3.71 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The Daydreamer Detective Braves The Winter
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4.35 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Healthy Snacker's Guide to Japan: A bite-sized introduction to getting slim, detoxing your body, and feeling young again
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan
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4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
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3.82 avg rating — 4,438 ratings
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Summer Haikus
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4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Kaibyō: The Supernatural Cats of Japan
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4.38 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Every Day a Good Day: Fifteen lessons I learned about happiness from Japanese tea culture
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3.93 avg rating — 2,034 ratings
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Lost Japan
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3.79 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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3.68 avg rating — 51,928 ratings
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Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967
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4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale (Japanese Studies Series)
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3.61 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
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3.75 avg rating — 86,421 ratings
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Hachi-Ko: The Samurai Dog
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4.47 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters: Defending the Earth with Ultraman, Godzilla, and Friends in the Golden Age of Japanese Science Fiction Film
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4.45 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
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3.37 avg rating — 15,068 ratings
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Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan
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4.41 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
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Japanese Cuisine
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4.02 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
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Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
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3.97 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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America and the Four Japans: Friend Foe Model Mirror
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan
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4.32 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws (Yokai ATTACK! Series)
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3.94 avg rating — 236 ratings
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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
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3.44 avg rating — 7,251 ratings
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Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan
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4.27 avg rating — 2,841 ratings
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Japanese Gods & Myths
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3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Sweet Bean Paste
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4.06 avg rating — 72,832 ratings
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The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
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4.51 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Japan (Asian Guides Series)
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Cherry Ingram
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3.89 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan
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3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings
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People From My Neighbourhood
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3.49 avg rating — 12,793 ratings
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Dancing With Spirits: the Festivals & Folklore of Japan
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mukashi Mukashi - A Collection of Japanese Myths, Legends and Folklore.
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Forest of Wool and Steel
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3.74 avg rating — 4,507 ratings
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Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change
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3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien
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4.06 avg rating — 320 ratings
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A Single Rose
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3.45 avg rating — 4,549 ratings
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Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)
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4.10 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Zen and Japanese Culture
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4.07 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
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3.75 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
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3.78 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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The Book of Tea: The Classic Work on the Japanese Tea Ceremony and the Value of Beauty
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3.85 avg rating — 17,413 ratings
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
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3.27 avg rating — 17,638 ratings
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