May 01, 2007 Origins: The Creative Spark Behind Japan’s Best Product Designs by Shu Hagiwara, photography by Masashi Kuma, translated by Philip Price [in Bloomsbury Review]
May 01, 2007 Tokyo: Exploring the City of the Shogun by Sumiko Enbutsu, photography by Katsuhito Nakazato [in Bloomsbury Review]
Jan 30, 2007 Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne: The Tragic True Story of Japan’s Crown Princess by Ben Hills [in San Francisco Chronicle]
Jun 06, 2006 Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women, foreword by Ruth Ozeki [in Christian Science Monitor]
Sep 08, 2005 Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek]
Aug 04, 2005 Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich [in AsianWeek]
May 26, 2005 The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space by Azby Brown, foreword by Kengo Kuma [in AsianWeek]
May 05, 2005 Wonderful Houses Around the World by Yoshio Komatsu, illustrated by Akira Nishiyama [in AsianWeek]
Mar 31, 2005 One Leaf Rides the Wind: Counting in a Japanese Garden by Celeste Davidson Mannis, illustrated by Susan Kathleen Hartung [in AsianWeek]