Books on/about Japan

A collection of musings and half-baked reviews on some of the books I've read about Japan. Some are quite inspirational, some not worth the purchase price and others are down right strange but I would expect nothing less than that when reading about the land of the rising sun.

- Craig "hachiroku" Mercer

	December 6 Martin Cruz Smith ISBN-10: 1410401707 ISBN-13: 978-1410401700 Genre: Fiction
	Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan Alex Kerr ISBN-10: 0141010002 ISBN-13: 978-0141010007 Genre: History
	I Wouldn't Want Anybody to Know: Native English Teaching in Japan Edited by Eva P. Bueno & Terry Caesar ISBN-10: 4900178217 ISBN-13: 978-4900178212 Genre: Non-Fiction - Humour
	In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia Ronald H. Spector ISBN-10: 0375509151 ISBN-13: 978-0375509155 Genre: History
	Japanese Today: Change and Continuity Edwin O. Reischauer and Marius B. Jansen ISBN-10: 0674471849 ISBN-13: 978-0674471849 Genre: Non-fiction
	Lost Japan Alex Kerr ISBN-10: 0864423705 ISBN-13: 978-0864423702 Genre: History
	Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden ISBN-10: 0099771519 ISBN-13: 978-0099771517 Genre: Fiction
	Midway: The Japanese Story Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya ISBN-10: 0304361542 ISBN-13: 978-0304361540 Genre: History
	Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia Richard J. Samuels ISBN-10: 0801446120 ISBN-13: 978-0801446122 Genre: History
	Speed Tribes Karl Taro Greenfeld ISBN-10: 0060926651 ISBN-13: 978-0060926656 Genre: Non-Fiction
	The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Ruth Benedict ISBN-10: 0618619593 ISBN-13: 978-0618619597 Genre: History
	The Japan Journals Donald Richie (Edited by Leza Lowitz) ISBN-10: 1880656973 ISBN-13: 978-1880656976 Genre: Non-Fiction
	The Japan We Never Knew: A Journey of Discovery David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa ISBN-10: 0773729844 ISBN-13: 978-0773729841 Genre: Non-Fiction