February 2021 Issue Juliet Hindell Memories of Edo Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan By Amy Stanley The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives By Christopher Harding Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector, and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan By Alex Kerr LR
February 2020 Issue Jasper Becker Getting to Know the Neighbours Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan By Michael Booth LR
October 2019 Issue Lesley Downer Our Man in Japan This Great Stage of Fools: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings By Alan Booth (edited by Timothy Harris) LR
October 2019 Issue Lesley Downer Our Man in Japan This Great Stage of Fools: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings By Alan Booth (Edited by Timothy Harris) LR
May 2019 Issue Christopher Ross Winding Back the Clock The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time By Anna Sherman LR
April 1989 Issue Katie Hickman Japanese Jumblies On the Narrow Road to the Deep North: Journey Into a Lost Japan By Lesley Downer LR
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