Local Book Reviews
Book reviews from my own collection, or which are on topics of personal interest (Japan, the Far East, and so on).
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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: 79
- 2001 Nights Vol. 1 (Yukinobu Hoshino) [2010/04/17]
- Afterschool Charisma Vol. 1 [2010/05/31]
- Almost Transparent Blue (Ryū Murakami) [2009/03/06]
- Batten #1 (×天~ばってん) (Tōya Ataka) [2008/12/22]
- Batten #2 (×天~ばってん) (Tōya Ataka) [2009/05/06]
- Black Lizard / Beast in the Shadows (Edogawa Rampo) [2007/01/01]
- The Blade of the Courtesans (Keiichiro Ryu) [2008/10/18]
- 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]
- Boy (Takeshi Kitano) [2007/09/09]
- Buja's Diary (Se-yeong Oh) [2006/03/03]
- The Cat in the Coffin (Mariko Koike) [2009/05/28]
- Dark Spring (Unica Zürn) [2007/05/05]
- Dark Water (Kōji Suzuki) [2008/12/25]
- A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Moto Hagio) [2010/07/19]
- Five Novels (Daniel M. Pinkwater) [2006/03/03]
- 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]
- Gross Anatomy: Black Jack Butchered In The Remaking [2009/08/18]
- Grotesque (Natsuo Kirino) [2009/08/25]
- 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]
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea / Robert Anton Wilson) [2002/02/02]
- Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edogawa Rampo) [2007/01/01]
- 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]
- Mulligan Stew (Gilbert Sorrentino) [2010/02/02]
- Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs) [2005/04/04]
- No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai) [2007/04/04]
- 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]
- On Parole (Akira Yoshimura) [2009/05/21]
- Paprika (Yasutaka Tsutsui) [2009/08/28]
- Peepo Choo Vol. 1 (Felipe Smith) [2010/07/18]
- The Poison Ape (Arimasa Osawa) [2008/12/16]
- The Push Man and Other Stories (Yoshihiro Tatsumi) [2005/11/11]
- Rashōmon And 17 Other Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa) [2008/08/30]
- 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]
- Season of Infidelity (Oniroku Dan) [2010/02/26]
- Shin Gendai Ryoukiden (Uziga Waita) [2004/11/11]
- Shinjuku Shark (Arimasa Osawa) [2007/12/12]
- Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan (Mark Schreiber) [2009/01/23]
- A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness (NHK-TV "Tokaimura Criticality Accident" Crew) [2009/02/11]
- The Summer of the Ubume (Natsuhiko Kyogoku) [2009/08/11]
- The Tale of Genji (Waki Yamato) [2003/06/07]
- 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]
- Waves: Two Short Novels (Masuji Ibuse) [2007/05/05]
- What a Wonderful World!, Vol. 1 (Inio Asano) [2009/10/17]
- Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist (Richard Rhodes) [2006/06/06]
- 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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