Issue:

Japan’s Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese Finance

Akio Mikuni; R. Taggart Murphy

Brookings Institution Press

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum


Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues

Ronald Dore

The Athlone Press

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum


The Matsushita Phenomenon

Rowland Gould

Diamond Sha

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum


Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb

Ronald Takaki

Little, Brown and Company

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum


Ceramic Art of Japan

Tadanari Mitsuoka

Japan Travel Bureau

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum


Counter Kabuki: Sixty-Seven Playlets on the Silly Side of Life in Japan

Jared Lubarsky

Gatekeeper Press

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum


The Complete Japanese Expression Guide: Over 600 Idioms

Mizue Sasaki

Charles E. Tuttle Company

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum


Watch Your Language: A Lively, informal guide to better writing, emanating from the News Room from The New York Times

Theodore M. Bernstein

Channel Press

Gift from Robert L. Kirschenbaum