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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Total entries in this category: 56
- 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 #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 #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]
- Shinjuku Shark (Arimasa Osawa) [2007/12/12]
- Now You're One of Us (Asa Nonami) [2007/11/11]
- 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]
- Boy (Takeshi Kitano) [2007/09/09]
- The Guin Saga, Book One: The Leopard Mask (Kaoru Kurimoto) [HARDCOVER] [2007/08/08]
- Kiki's Delivery Service (Eiko Kadono) [2007/07/07]
- Waves: Two Short Novels (Masuji Ibuse) [2007/05/05]
- Dark Spring (Unica Zürn) [2007/05/05]
- No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai) [2007/04/04]
- Tun-Huang (Yasushi Inoue) [2007/04/04]
- Black Lizard / Beast in the Shadows (Edogawa Rampo) [2007/01/01]
- Vampire Hunter D: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2007/01/01]
- The Kouga Ninja Scrolls (Futaro Yamada) [2007/01/01]
- Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edogawa Rampo) [2007/01/01]
- No-No Boy (John Okada) [2006/12/12]
- Ode to Kirihito (Osamu Tezuka) [2006/12/12]
- Vampire Hunter D: The Stuff of Dreams (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/10/10]
- The Legend of Kamui (Sanpei Shirato) [2006/10/10]
- Vampire Hunter D: Tale of the Dead Town (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/09/09]
- The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan (Yasushi Inoue) [2006/09/09]
- Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/08/08]
- 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]
- Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/08/08]
- Blood: The Last Vampire: Night of the Beasts (Mamoru Oshii) [2006/06/06]
- Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist (Richard Rhodes) [2006/06/06]
- Vampire Hunter D (Hideyuki Kikuchi) [2006/06/06]
- Buja's Diary (Se-yeong Oh) [2006/03/03]
- The Ticket That Exploded (William S. Burroughs) [2006/03/03]
- Five Novels (Daniel M. Pinkwater) [2006/03/03]
- The Push Man and Other Stories (Yoshihiro Tatsumi) [2005/11/11]
- Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs) [2005/04/04]
- Shin Gendai Ryoukiden (Uziga Waita) [2004/11/11]
- Lancelot (Walker Percy) [2002/11/11]
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea / Robert Anton Wilson) [2002/02/02]
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