Maru Kun's votes on the list Understanding Modern Japan

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1	Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan by Alex Kerr 3.77 avg rating — 1,267 ratings Maru rated it 3 stars See Review	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	Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan by Junichi Saga 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings Maru rated it 4 stars See Review	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	Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan by Junichi Saga 4.41 avg rating — 451 ratings Maru rated it 5 stars See Review	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	Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan by Alan Booth 4.13 avg rating — 434 ratings Maru rated it 4 stars See Review	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	Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 3.98 avg rating — 756,459 ratings	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	Lost Japan by Alex Kerr 3.79 avg rating — 4,186 ratings Maru rated it 5 stars See Review	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	An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 47,758 ratings Maru rated it 5 stars See Review	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	The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth 4.08 avg rating — 2,076 ratings Maru rated it 5 stars See Review	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	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower 4.16 avg rating — 5,328 ratings Maru added it to to-read See Review	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	Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook 4.39 avg rating — 1,034 ratings Maru rated it 5 stars See Review	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	Out by Natsuo Kirino 3.94 avg rating — 50,443 ratings	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	Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami 3.91 avg rating — 23,093 ratings	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	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima 3.97 avg rating — 26,265 ratings Maru rated it 5 stars See Review	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	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea / Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima 3.83 avg rating — 55,825 ratings Maru rated it 4 stars See Review	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	Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami 3.29 avg rating — 14,071 ratings Maru rated it 3 stars See Review	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	Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe 3.80 avg rating — 5,611 ratings Maru rated it 3 stars See Review	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
17	Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburō Ōe 3.84 avg rating — 2,666 ratings Maru added it to to-read See Review	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
18	Coin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami 3.79 avg rating — 9,976 ratings	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
19	The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai 3.96 avg rating — 46,376 ratings	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
20	The Sea and Poison by Shūsaku Endō 3.95 avg rating — 1,909 ratings	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
21	Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai 3.95 avg rating — 27,435 ratings Maru added it to to-read See Review	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
22	No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai 3.93 avg rating — 275,855 ratings	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
23	Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 3.89 avg rating — 135,943 ratings	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
24	The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1) by Keigo Higashino 4.17 avg rating — 82,736 ratings Maru added it to currently-reading-japanese See Review	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
25	Seventeen & J by Kenzaburō Ōe 3.62 avg rating — 692 ratings	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
26	Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld by Junichi Saga 3.89 avg rating — 3,416 ratings Maru rated it 3 stars See Review	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
27	Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa 4.27 avg rating — 8,868 ratings	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
28	The Inland Sea by Donald Richie 3.85 avg rating — 601 ratings Maru added it to to-read See Review	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
29	Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan by Donald Richie 3.48 avg rating — 50 ratings	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
30	The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan by Donald Richie 3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings	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
31	The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie 4.31 avg rating — 554 ratings	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
32	Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma 3.69 avg rating — 1,116 ratings Maru added it to to-read See Review	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
33	Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma 4.07 avg rating — 495 ratings	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
34	Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and other Japanese Cultural Heroes by Ian Buruma 3.90 avg rating — 300 ratings Maru rated it 4 stars See Review	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
35	Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1) by David Peace 3.33 avg rating — 2,566 ratings Maru added it to to-read See Review	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
36	Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 by Michihiko Hachiya 4.17 avg rating — 3,735 ratings	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
37	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix 3.86 avg rating — 3,450 ratings	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
38	Fires on the Plain by Shōhei Ōoka really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,834 ratings Maru added it to to-read See Review	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
39	Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger 3.58 avg rating — 932 ratings	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
40	A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan by Kappa Senoh 4.42 avg rating — 120 ratings Maru rated it 5 stars See Review	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