The most popular Japan books of 2026

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The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara

Chūya Nakahara

Same Sun Same Moon

Yokai Monsters By the Great Masters of Japanese Woodblock Printing

Philippe Charlier

Kokoda Track 1942–43 Japanese Defeat in Papua

Peter Williams

China’s Date Debate

Emily Matson

Before I Knew I Loved You

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Tokyo Story A Guide to the City's Best Cultural Hangouts, Shops, Bars and Eateries

Steve Wide, Michelle Mackintosh

Now Is Now Tokyo Street Photography

Colonial Surveillance Technologies of Identification and Control in Japan's Empire

Midori Ogasawara

Justice with a Smile A Novel

Osamu Dazai

After Terrorism The US–Japan Alliance in the Post-9/11 Security Dilemma

Ryūji Hattori

Performing Transgression Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

Ashton Lazarus, Assistant Professor World Languages and Cultures University of Utah Ashton Lazarus

Money Beyond Borders

Barry Eichengreen

We Have Ways of Making You Talk Everything You Wanted to Know about the Second World War from the Podcast Experts

James

Negotiations of the Sacred Kyoto's Gion Matsuri and the Shifting Boundaries of a Japanese Festival

Elisabetta Porcu

Rounding the Bases The Story of Little League Baseball in Japan

James J. Orr

No War, No Peace, No Incentives Political, Economic, and Strategic Bases of Inertia in Russian-Japanese Reconciliation

Peter William Richardson

Oda Nobunaga

Stephen Turnbull

The Narrow Road

Matsuo Basho

24 Hours in Shogun's Japan A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

Mark Hudson

Japan's Amazing Bullet Trains Shinkansen

Railway Graphics

The Legend of Kamui

Sanpei Shirato

The Kyoto School and the Japanese Navy The Hidden Truth Behind the Alleged War Collaboration

Ryōsuke Ōhashi