A YEAR IN JAPAN

The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for a Westerne r to get to know the real Japan is to become a part of it. Kate T. Williamson did just that, spending a year experiencing, studying, and re?ecting on her adopted home. She brings her keen observations to us in A Year in Japan, a dramatically different look at a de lightfull...[Read more]