The Lady and the Monk
by Pico Iyer | 
Lost Japan
by Alex Kerr |
Untangling My Chopsticks
by Victoria Abbott Riccardi |
The Inland Sea
by Donald Richie |
The Roads to Sata
by Alan Booth |
Looking for the Lost
by Alan Booth | 
Dogs and Demons
by Alex Kerr | 
The Secrets of Mariko
by Elisabeth Bumiller | 
Hokkaido Highway Blues
by Will Ferguson | 
A Daughter of the Samurai
by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto | 
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
by Isabella Bird |
Shutting Out the Sun
by Michael Zielenziger | 
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor
by Norma Field | 
Autobiography of a Geisha
by Sayo Masuda | 
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi | 
Under the Big Top
by Bruce Feiler | 
Iron and Silk
by Mark Salzman | 
Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
by Martin Booth | 
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
by Jamie Zeppa | 
A Fortune-Teller Told Me
by Tiziano Terzani |
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.