Interested in all things Japanese?

The Nippon Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization which supports a variety of projects designed to promote an understanding of Japan overseas (go here for more info). They do a lot of different things, including donating "...carefully selected books that provide information on contemporary Japan” to libraries around the world - including this one.

Because of our Asian Studies Program, we applied for and received a great collection of about 40 of these books on subjects ranging from Japanese film, Manga and literature to politics, business and history. They are currently on display in the Reference Room (far right corner), they're all in English and they can all be borrowed.

To show you what I mean, here's the list of titles:

Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film
Oe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan
Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News
Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements
Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Major Economy
Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West
The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change
Media and Politics in Japan
Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy
The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s
The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present, and Future
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
Four Practical Revolutions in Management: Systems for Creating Unique Organizational Capability
Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949
Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society
Lectures on Modern Japanese Economic History, 1926-1994
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons
The Sun Also Sets: The Limits to Japan's Economic Power
21st-Century Japanese Management: New Systems, Lasting Values
Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective
Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
Japanese Science: From the Inside
Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection
Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan
Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
In Praise of Shadows
Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, 1780-1830
I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While
The Wild Goose
The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States
Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945
Modern Japan
Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage