Tuttle Publishing: 1830 books
Too Much!
Cartoons by R Simms
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This book of satirical military comics is a humorous look at life in the military during the Korean war era.
Cartoonist Richard C. Simms entered the service in 1953 where he spent a short but delightful sixteen weeks at Fort Riley, and thereafter was sent to Korea, where he spent the rest of...
Decoding China
A Handbook for Traveling, Studying, and Working in Today's China
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Embrace the culture and get the most out of your time in China.
Going to China for the first time can be an intimidating experience, even for those who have studied the language. In fact, traveling to China for the second, third, or fourth time can also be a challenging experience, especially...
Artist's Journey to Bali
The Island of Art, Magic and Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
An Artist's Journey to Bali is much more than your usual travel guide to the beautiful and mysterious Indonesian island of Bali.
Written and illustrated by renowned artist Betty Reynolds, this Bali travel guide contains the author's original watercolor art depicting the wonderful island whose...
It's All Chinese To Me
An Overview of Chinese Culture, Travel & Etiquette (Fully Revised and Expanded)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
It's All Chinese to Me is a fun and authentic introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience what ultimately makes China so unique—its people.
Learn about Chinese customs, proper etiquette for all types of situations, and how to interact...
Tokyo on Foot
Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir.
Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a...
Ninja Attack!
True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history—many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country.
Ninja masters. Solo assassins and operatives. Femme fatales as deadly as they were beautiful. Swordfighters out of legend....
Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential
How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
"The schoolgirl is the main driver of Japan's Gross National Cool, and Brian Ashcraft's book is the best source for those hoping to understand why." —Chris Baker, WIRED Magazine
Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential takes you beyond the realm of everyday girls to the world of the iconic...
Japanese Cooking with Manga
The Gourmand Gohan Cookbook - 59 Easy Recipes Your Friends will Love!
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Three friends walk you through their best Japanese recipes—in expressive, humorous illustrations!
Cooking should be fun, and this highly entertaining Japanese cookbook for beginners is packed full of humor and whimsical illustrations. Japanese Cooking with Manga started out as "Gourmand...
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
"Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface." —The New York Times Book Review
Widely acknowledged as "the father of...
by Osamu Dazai
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers.
Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for...
by Taijun Takeda
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The two novelettes by contemporary Japanese writer Taijun Takeda that are contained in this book were chosen for their overall excellence to be included in our current Library of Japanese Literature series. Both stories are relatively modern, one dealing with an incident of cannibalism in Hokkaido...
Mistress Oriku
Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
"Royall Tyler's translations are nothing short of superb-crisp, restrained, ably balancing the ribald and the profound."-Booklist
Sensitive, compassionate, and indomitable, Mistress Oriku has abandoned the pleasure trades of Tokyo to run an elegant teahouse on the city's outskirts....
Max Danger
The Adventures of an Expat in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
"Mr. Collins is a funny writer [who puts] his finger on exactly what
makes Japan bewildering, endearing, amusing inspiring…"
-The New York Times
Follow the adventures of Tokyo’s favorite expatriate Max Danger, as he weaves his way in and out of the intricacies and dilemmas of...
by Jack Seward
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Strange but True Stories from Japan is a fascinating collection of vignettes, ranging from historical to the personal.
Here you will be exposed to the goings-on of Americans serving time in Japanese prisons and the many who claimed the identity of Tokyo Rose. And learn about the bizarre habits...