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isbn[0]="0824821521";
title[0]="Japanese Culture";
author[0]="Paul Varley";
desc[0]="For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the forty-seven ronin, Mito scholarship in the early nineteenth century, and mass culture and comics in contemporary times.";

isbn[1]="0844283770";
title[1]="The Japanese Way : Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs of the Japanese";
author[1]="Noriko Takada, Rita Lampkin";
desc[1]="For All Students Ideal for a variety of courses, this valuable handbook helps students understand how people of today's Japan think, do business, and act in their daily lives."; 

isbn[2]="1861891474";
title[2]="Consuming Bodies : Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art";
author[2]="Fran Lloyd (Editor)";
desc[2]="Consuming Bodies explores the themes of sex and consumerism in contemporary Japanese art and how they connect with the wider conditions of modern Japanese culture. Engaging with performance, digital media, painting, sculpture and including the diary of a sex worker, it features essays by writers, historians, curators and artists. With more than 160 powerful and sometimes controversial images, this book is bound to provoke debate about this little - discussed aspect of Japanese culture.";

isbn[3]="0714843350";
title[3]="Fruits Postcards";
author[3]="Shoichi Aoki";
desc[3]="Fruits Postcards is a collection of forty-five Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier fanzine of the same name. 'Fruits' was established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last five years, the magazine has grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of kids featured in the magazine is between 12 and 18, and the clothes that they wear are a mixture of high fashion - Vivianne Westwood is a keen favourite - and home-made ensembles which when combined create a novel, if not hysterical, effect."; 

isbn[4]="0765605619";
title[4]="Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture";
author[4]="Timothy J. Craig (Editor)";
desc[4]="Japan Pop! is a fascinating look at various forms of Japanese popular culture: pop song, jazz, enka (a popular musical ballad genre), karaoke, comics, animated cartoons, video games, television dramas, films and \"idols\" (teenage singers and actors). As pop culture not only entertains but is alsoa product and reflection of society, the book is also about Japan - about how Japan is changing, relations between the sexes, shifting gender roles, social and family life conditions, Japan's cultural identity, and views on love, work, duty, dreams, war and peace, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death - all are cast in a revealing light by Japan Pop!";

isbn[5]="1861891539";
title[5]="The Image Factory : Fads and Fashions in Japan";
author[5]="Donald Richie";
desc[5]="Since the late 19th century, Japan has openly invited the foreign and the new, and in so doing has embraced the ephemeral. In this intriguing investigation into fads and fashions, their inherent meanings and potential for Japanese enterprise and society, Donald Richie, a renowned American writer who has lived in Tokyo for more than 50 years, opens up the industry of the image from Tamagochis to image clubs, T-shirts to robots."; 

isbn[6]="1840680369";
title[6]="Tokyo Vertigo";
author[6]="Stephen Barber";
desc[6]="Innovative travel writing by award-winning writer Stephen Barber as he guides the reader through the ultimate futuristic city: Tokyo. A cinematic portrayal of the city, from close-up portraits of individual citizens to panoramic descriptions of its vast avenues and immense digital image screens, from day to night, past to present, Tokyo Vertigo is visceral, exhilirating travel writing.";

isbn[7]="1861542119";
title[7]="Jam: Tokyo-London";
author[7]="Abrams";
desc[7]="Jam is one of those books you just want to have. Inside, contemporary illustration, fashion design, computer art, sculpture, photography, painting, graphic design, and product design from London and Tokyo define what is essentially urban for our age, from a limited-edition record player from the Japanese musician-artist Cornelius to sexy illustrations of young urbanites by London artist Graham Rounthwaite. Rather than solely promoting a vapid aesthetic, Jam presents what is thought-provoking, choosing to embed itself in the present rather than gearing up to evaporate tomorrow. This work, organized into four simple sections--e-mail, the work, the interviews, then the contact information for the artists--is wrapped in a book that is beautifully made. The cover, as well as the pages that contain the interviews, are on brown paper printed with fluorescent, silver, and brown ink, beautifully designed; the images are on dense, thin, glossy paper, beautifully printed. --Juliette Cezzar"; 

isbn[8]="1569313458";
title[8]="Japan Edge : The Insider's Guide To Japanese Pop Subculture";
author[8]="Patrick Macias";
desc[8]="This lively, idiosyncratic survey of Japanese film, music, animation, and comics showcases the experiences of five avid American fans: journalist Carl Gustav Horn, who writes about anime; critic and musician Mason Jones, who releases Japanese alternative music on his Charnel Music record label; Patrick Macias, a writer on Asian film for the San Francisco Bay Guardian; Matt Thorn, a translator and expert on sh<@244>jo (girls') manga; and Yuji Oniki, a student of Japanese mass media."; 

isbn[9]="0834803801";
title[9]="Encyclopedia Japanese Pop Culture";
author[9]="Mark Schilling";
desc[9]="In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is much richer. Rather than focus on what the rest of the world has already encountered, Mark Schilling provides an encyclopedic compendium of books, movies, music, comedians, and cultural scandals that have had the greatest impact in Japan. Thus, for the outsider, The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture is an insider's guide to post-war Japan. Not content to simply catalog his entries, Schilling provides real depth and analysis in his articles, opening up Japan's rich pop heritage to the world at large.";

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