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Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012

Heterodox views enter mainstream

By JEFF KINGSTON

RETHINKING JAPANESE HISTORY

Yoshihiko Amino

Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012

Developing a natural aesthetic

By DAVID BURLEIGH

JAPAN AND THE CULTURE OF THE FOUR SEASONS: Nature

Haruo Shirane. Columbia University Press

Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012

Exploring the garden of absolute infinities

By STEPHEN MANSFIELD

Tenryu-Ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden

Norris Brock Johnson. Stone Bridge Press

Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012

Seen through the victim's eye

By DAVID COZY

THE STORY OF MY ASSASSINS

Tarun J. Tejpal. Melville House

Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012

An undeclared war: the Japanese-Soviet battle that decided the outcome of WWII

By JEFF KINGSTON

Nomonhan 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II

Stuart D. Goldman. Naval Institute Press

Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012

Born guilty: child of a North Korean gulag

By BRADLEY K. MARTIN

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West

Blaine Harden. Viking

Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012

The third space: the cafe's place in forming modern Japan

By DAVID COZY

COFFEE LIFE IN JAPAN

Merry White. University of California Press

Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012

Timely fictional war scenarios that play out in Asian waters

By MARK SCHREIBER

Tiger's Claw

Dale Brown. William Morrow

Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012

The long tradition of sanitizing history

By JEFF KINGSTON

Ways of Forgetting

John W. Dower. New Press

Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012

Charming short stories about man's tarnished imperfections

By KRIS KOSAKA

The Beautiful One Has Come

Susan Kamata. Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing

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