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Japan Resources

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Bibliography Recommended by JFMFers

The following is a partial list of books on Japan:

· Confucius Lives Next Door by TR Reid

A look at Confucius and his influence on Japan

· Japan's New Middle Class and Japan as Number One by Ezra Vogel

Sociological study of the then-emerging Japanese middle class and Japanese technological achievements

· The Japanese School by Benjamin Duke

Study and analyses of Japan's economic growth and features of the Japanese and U.S. education systems. Duke was involved in the post-war Japanese education reform by the U.S. Occupation Army.

· With Respect to the Japanese by John Condon

Various cultural features of the Japanese and Japanese society

· The Japanese by Edwin O. Reischauer

An authoritative book. Reischauer authored numerous books on Japan and served

as Ambassador to Japan in the early 1960s.

· Japan Is Not All Raw Fish and Son of Raw Fish by Don Maloney

Collection of essays on a businessman and his family's experiences in Japan

· Japanese Lessons by Gail Benjamin

Overview of Japanese school system compared to that of U.S. by an American woman whose children attended Japanese primary school

· The Making of Modern Japan by Marius Jansen

Published by Harvard U. Press, Nov. 2000.

· Frommer’s Japan Guide by Macmillan

· Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War 2　by John Dower

The book won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and is a real eye-opener in terms of the psychological, social, political and economic elements of Japan's defeat, e.g. what really happens when democracy is imposed on a hereditary monarchy.

· Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan 　by Harvard's Herbert Dix

· A Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients and Culture by Richard Hosking

· Comparing Cultures: Readings in Contemporary Japan, The Japanese Educational Challenge and The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America by Merry White

· The Road to Sata and Looking for the Lost: Journeys into a Vanishing Japan　　by Alan Booth

Booth was an Englishman who hiked all over Japan, way off the beaten path.

· Lost Japan　by Alex Kerr

Intriguing and depressing, Kerr relates his experience of seeing Japan covered by concrete and being made "modern"

Plane Ride Reading

· Son of Raw Fish by Don Maloney

· Audrey Hepburn’s Neck by Alan Brown

Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn's Neck is also a shrewd study of cross-cultural issues, and of romantic and familial love.

· Mystery Series by Sujata Massey

The Salaryman’s Wife, Zen Attitudes, The Flower Master and Floating Girl

The series reveals a deep knowledge of Japan as experienced through the main character, and an ex-pat,half-Japanese young woman.

JFMFers on the web http://www.fulbrightmemorialfund.jp/fmfers.html

Peggy Steffens 2000 http://www.amphi.com/%7Epsteffen/fmf/

Dr. Mariella Harold 2001 http://utminers.utep.edu/mherold/

Marycaye Dover 2007 http://www.westvalleyschool.com/Dover/index.html

Kristie Lent 2007 http://www.triway.k12.oh.us/tjhs/kristielentupdates.html

Holly Hatcher-Frazier 2007 blog http://wtmiddleschool.learnerblogs.org/

Mary Macklin 2007 blog http://macklinjapan.blogspot.com/

Timothy Dobbins 2007 weblog http://groups.google.com/group/jfmf-2007-june?lnk=li&hl=en

Mara Gano October 2007 http://www.tripdiary.com/maragano/Japan