Local Book Reviews
Book reviews from my own collection, or which are on topics of personal interest (Japan, the Far East, and so on).
You can browse an alphabetical or chronological archive of this category.
If you're curious about the order in which entries were added (for instance, to catch up with older articles only now being migrated in), you can browse by article order.
Total entries in this category: 138
- 2001 Nights Vol. 1 (Yukinobu Hoshino) [2010/04/17]
- 7 Billion Needles, Vol. #1 (Nobuaki Tadano) [2010/09/17]
- Afterschool Charisma Vol. 1 [2010/05/31]
- Almost Transparent Blue (Ryū Murakami) [2009/03/06]
- Ayako (Osamu Tezuka) [2010/11/21]
- Batten Vol. #1 (×天~ばってん) (Tōya Ataka) [2008/12/22]
- Batten Vol. #2 (×天~ばってん) (Tōya Ataka) [2009/05/06]
- Black Jack Vol. 14 (Osamu Tezuka) [2011/06/04]
- Black Jack Vol. #13 (Osamu Tezuka) [2011/02/08]
- Black Jack Vol. 15 (Osamu Tezuka) [2011/07/22]
- Black Jack Vol. 16 (Osamu Tezuka) [2011/11/04]
- Black Jack. Vol. #17 (Osamu Tezuka) [2012/02/11]
- Black Lizard / Beast in the Shadows (Edogawa Rampo) [2007/01/01]
- The Blade of the Courtesans (Keiichiro Ryu) [2008/10/18]
- Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon (Junichi Ohsako) [2011/09/01]
- Blood: The Last Vampire: Night of the Beasts (Mamoru Oshii) [2006/06/06]
- The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan (Yasushi Inoue) [2010/04/16]
- The Book of Human Insects (Osamu Tezuka) [2011/09/25]
- Botchan (Natsume Sōseki) [2011/09/09]
- Boy (Takeshi Kitano) [2007/09/09]
- A Bride's Story (Kaoru Mori) [2011/05/22]
- A Bride's Story, Vol. 2 (Kaoru Mori) [2011/11/04]
- Buja's Diary (Se-yeong Oh) [2006/03/03]
- A Caring Man (Akira Arai) [2011/07/28]
- The Cat in the Coffin (Mariko Koike) [2009/05/28]
- Crossfire (Miyuki Miyabe) [2011/02/06]
- The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha (Roger-Pol Droit) [2012/01/13]
- Dark Spring (Unica Zürn) [2007/05/05]
- Dark Water (Kōji Suzuki) [2008/12/25]
- Death March on Mount Hakkōda (Jirō Nitta) [2011/02/04]
- Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases (Nisioisin) [2010/12/21]
- The Drinker (Hans Fallada) [2011/09/03]
- Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn (Compiled and edited by Stephen Mitchell) [2010/11/29]
- A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Moto Hagio) [2010/07/19]
- The Edogawa Rampo Reader (Edogawa Rampo) [2010/12/24]
- Five Novels (Daniel M. Pinkwater) [2006/03/03]
- The Flowers of Evil, Vol. #1 (Shuzo Oshimi) [2012/05/13]
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (Masamune Shirow) [2006/08/08]
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Lost Memory (Junichi Fujisaku) [2006/08/08]
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Yu Kinutani) [2011/06/13]
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstader) [2011/02/14]
- The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made (David Hughes) [2011/04/25]
- Gross Anatomy: Black Jack Butchered In The Remaking [2009/08/18]
- Grotesque (Natsuo Kirino) [2009/08/25]
- GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Vol. #1 (Tohru Fujisawa) [2012/02/04]
- GTO: The Early Years, Vol. #11 (Toru Fujisawa) [2012/03/04]
- The Guin Saga, Book One: The Leopard Mask (Kaoru Kurimoto) [HARDCOVER] [2007/08/08]
- The Guin Saga, Book Three: The Battle of Nospherus (Kaoru Kurimoto) [HARDCOVER] [2007/09/09]
- The Guin Saga, Book Two: Warrior in the Wilderness (Kaoru Kurimoto) [HARDCOVER] [2007/09/09]
- Guin Saga Vol. 1 [Manga] (Hajime Sawada) [2008/12/18]
- Guin Saga Vol. 2 [Manga] (Hajime Sawada) [2009/01/10]
- Guin Saga Vol. 3 [Manga] (Hajime Sawada) [2009/04/26]
- Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality (Brad Warner) [2011/12/07]
- Hell (Yasutaka Tsutsui) [2012/02/27]
- I Have The Right To Destroy Myself (Young-Ha Kim) [2010/10/02]
- In the Miso Soup (Ryū Murakami) [2011/02/04]
- Inter Ice Age 4 (Kobo Abé) [2011/02/05]
- Japan (Buronson / Kentaro Miura) [2012/02/28]
- Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edogawa Rampo) [2007/01/01]
- Kallocain (Karin Boye) [2011/05/18]
- Kataribe (Masayuki Ishikawa) [2009/11/17]
- Kiki's Delivery Service (Eiko Kadono) [2007/07/07]
- King of Wolves (Buronson/Kentaro Miura) [2010/05/03]
- The Kouga Ninja Scrolls (Futaro Yamada) [2007/01/01]
- Lala Pipo (Hideo Okuda) [2008/08/24]
- Lancelot (Walker Percy) [2002/11/11]
- The Legend of Kamui (Sanpei Shirato) [2006/10/10]
- Lychee Light Club (Usamaru Furuya) [2011/06/02]
- Mardock Scramble (Tow Ubukata) [2011/03/08]
- The Master of Go (Yasunari Kawabata) [2011/09/05]
- MM9: Monster Magnitude 9 (Hiroshi Yamamoto) [2012/02/21]
- Moju: The Blind Beast (Edogawa Rampo) [2010/12/24]
- Mulligan Stew (Gilbert Sorrentino) [2010/02/02]
- Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs) [2005/04/04]
- Ninja Justice (Shotaro Ikenami) [2010/12/22]
- No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai) [2007/04/04]
- No Longer Human Vol. #1 (Usamaru Furuya / Osamu Dazai) [2011/10/18]
- No Longer Human, Vol. #2 (Usamaru Furuya / Osamu Dazai) [2011/12/23]
- No Longer Human Vol. #3 (Usamaru Furuya, Osamu Dazai) [2012/02/11]
- No-No Boy (John Okada) [2006/12/12]
- North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter (Sakie Yokota) [2009/01/13]
- not simple (Natsume Ono) [2010/01/21]
- Now You're One of Us (Asa Nonami) [2007/11/11]
- Ode to Kirihito (Osamu Tezuka) [2006/12/12]
- Oh My Goddess! First End (Yumi Tohma) [2011/09/08]
- On Parole (Akira Yoshimura) [2009/05/21]
- Paprika (Yasutaka Tsutsui) [2009/08/28]
- Pascali's Island (Barry Unsworth) [2011/12/31]
- Peepo Choo Vol. 1 (Felipe Smith) [2010/07/18]
- Peepo Choo Vol. 2 (Felipe Smith) [2010/09/10]
- Peepo Choo Vol. 3 (Felipe Smith) [2010/12/02]
- Piercing (Ryū Murakami) [2011/09/06]
- The Poison Ape (Arimasa Osawa) [2008/12/16]
- Popular Hits of the Showa Era (Ryū Murakami) [2011/02/09]
- The Pornographers (Akiyuki Nosaka) [2010/11/20]
- Princess Knight: Vols. #1-2 (Osamu Tezuka) [2012/01/27]
- The Push Man and Other Stories (Yoshihiro Tatsumi) [2005/11/11]
- Rashōmon And 17 Other Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa) [2008/08/30]
- Rebel Buddha (Dzogchen Ponlop) [2012/05/01]
- The Roof Tile of Tempyō (Yasushi Inoue) [2010/12/23]
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa: The Beautiful and the Grotesque [2010/11/02]
- The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan (Yasushi Inoue) [2006/09/09]
- Sayonara, Gangsters (Genichiro Takahashi) [2009/10/07]
- Sayonara, Mr. Fatty!: A Geek's Diet Memoir (Toshio Okuda) [2009/06/18]
- Schoolgirl (Osamu Dazai) [2011/09/15]
- Science Fiction Studies in Film (Frederik Pohl & Frederik Pohl IV) [2011/04/25]
- Season of Infidelity (Oniroku Dan) [2010/02/26]
- Shinjuku Shark (Arimasa Osawa) [2007/12/12]
- Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura) [2010/12/22]
- Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan (Mark Schreiber) [2009/01/23]
- Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye (Brad Warner) [2011/12/30]
- A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness (NHK-TV "Tokaimura Criticality Accident" Crew) [2009/02/11]
- So Lovely A Country Will Never Perish (Donald Keene) [2011/09/07]
- The Stationmaster (Jiro Asada) [2011/01/30]
- The Summer of the Ubume (Natsuhiko Kyogoku) [2009/08/11]
- Tamayura Douji Vol. #1 (たまゆら童子) (Eriko Sano) [2009/02/16]
- The Ticket That Exploded (William S. Burroughs) [2006/03/03]
- Tun-Huang (Yasushi Inoue) [2007/04/04]
- Twin Spica Vol. 1 (Kou Yaginuma) [2010/04/05]
- Twin Spica Vol. 2 (Kou Yaginuma) [2010/06/14]
- Usurper of the Sun (Housuke Nojiri) [2009/10/05]
- Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/08/08]
- Vampire Hunter D (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/06/06]
- Vampire Hunter D: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2007/01/01]
- Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/08/08]
- Vampire Hunter D: Tale of the Dead Town (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/09/09]
- Vampire Hunter D: The Stuff of Dreams (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/10/10]
- Velveteen & Mandala (Jiro Matsumoto) [2011/08/15]
- Waves: Two Short Novels (Masuji Ibuse) [2007/05/05]
- What a Wonderful World!, Vol. 1 (Inio Asano) [2009/10/17]
- What the Buddha Thought (Richard Gombrich) [2012/01/28]
- Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist (Richard Rhodes) [2006/06/06]
- Wicked City (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2011/09/04]
- Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter (Shoko Tendo) [2010/03/13]
- Yoko Tsuno #1: On the Edge of Life [2009/06/03]
- Zoo (Otsuichi) [2009/09/20]
- Zoo (Otsuichi) (Akihisa Yanari) [2009/11/15]
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