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