I’ll soon be traveling to Japan for a three-week sojourn around the country. In preparation for the trip, I’ve been reading for several months now. Some of my favorites–fiction and nonfiction–include Jonathan Clements’s A Brief History of Japan (2017), Pico Iyer’s The Lady and the Monk (1991), Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood (2000), and Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold (2015).
Peter Mires 