The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 by Donald Richie, edited by Leza Lowitz [in AsianWeek]
03 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
The collected private writings of film and cultural historian Donald Richie, who is perhaps best known as Japan’s pre-eminent 20th-century American expat. Included in the multiple pages devoted to his almost-six-decade love affair with...
From one of the world’s most famous – and favorite – ex-pats living in Japan comes a shrewd though appreciative look at Japan’s craze for fads, fashions, and style, from manga, pachinko, cell phones,...
Richie, one of Japan’s most famous ex-patriots, points out in his introduction that some 90% of all Japanese films made before 1945 were destroyed, whether during the 1923...
Anthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West.
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