Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma by David Levine

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard. He received this year’s Shorenstein Award for writing about Asia. His latest book, Murder in Amsterdam, is available in paperback. (May 2008)

From the Review

May 1, 2008: The Cruelest War*

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 by Max Hastings

January 17, 2008: The Genius of Berlin

Berlin Alexanderplatz directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz Catalog of the exhibition edited by Klaus Biesenbach

November 8, 2007: 'His Toughness Problem—and Ours': An Exchange

September 27, 2007: His Toughness Problem—and Ours

World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz

July 19, 2007: Herzog and His Heroes*

Rescue Dawn a film written and directed by Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog: Documentaries and Shorts, 1962–1999

Herzog (Non)Fiction

June 14, 2007: Fascinating Narcissism

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach

Leni Riefenstahl: A Life by Jürgen Trimborn, translated from the German by Edna McCown

March 15, 2007: Dressing for Success*

Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita, the Artist Caught Between East and West by Phyllis Birnbaum

March 1, 2007: Thailand: All the King's Men*

The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley

February 15, 2007: Eastwood's War

Flags of Our Fathers a film directed by Clint Eastwood

Letters from Iwo Jima a film directed by Clint Eastwood

December 21, 2006: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Case (letter)

November 2, 2006: Weimar Faces*

September 21, 2006: Why They Hate Japan*

The Making of the "Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States by Takashi Yoshida

April 6, 2006: Mr. Natural*

The R. Crumb Handbook by R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski

February 9, 2006: Louis, Schmeling, and Leonard (letter)

January 12, 2006: The Great Black Hope*

Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick

June 23, 2005: Virtual Violence

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Yasunari Kawabata, translated from the Japanese by Alisa Freedman, with a foreword and afterword by Donald Richie and illustrations by Ota Saburo

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture Catalog of the exhibition edited by Murakami Takashi

June 9, 2005: Between Two Worlds*

The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss

The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders by Masayo Duus, translated from the Japanese by Peter Duus

May 12, 2005: The Indiscreet Charm of Tyranny*

March 24, 2005: Chinese Shadows*

War Trash by Ha Jin

November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future

October 21, 2004: The Destruction of Germany*

Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945(The Fire: Germany in the Bombing War, 1940–1945) by Jörg Friedrich

Brandstätten: Der Anblick des Bombenkriegs(Scenes of Fire: A View of the Bombing War) by Jörg Friedrich

May 13, 2004: Master of Fear*

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

March 11, 2004: Seeds of Revolution*

January 15, 2004: The Antipodes of Glory*

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

December 18, 2003: Staging the Empire*

Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour

September 25, 2003: On John Schlesinger (1926–2003)*

June 12, 2003: AsiaWorld*

May 15, 2003: Pioneer*

The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan edited and with an introduction by Arturo Silva

The Inland Sea by Donald Richie, with an introduction by Pico Iyer

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey

May 1, 2003: Revolution from Above

Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman

December 19, 2002: The Circus of Max Beckmann*

Max Beckmann: Un Peintre dans l'histoire

Beckmann Catalog of the exhibition edited by Didier Ottinger

December 5, 2002: Portrait of the Artist*

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J.M. Coetzee

December 5, 2002: On the West Bank*

November 21, 2002: Suicide for the Empire*

Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalists: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 by Donald Keene

August 15, 2002: Making a Fetish of Mystery*

Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity by Victor Segalen, translated and edited by Yaël Rachel Schlick, with a foreword by Harry Harootunian

April 11, 2002: The Blood Lust of Identity*

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf, translated from the French by Barbara Bray

Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America by Tom Hayden

January 17, 2002: Occidentalism*

October 4, 2001: The Muslims of Tibet (letter)

September 20, 2001: The Fall of Mr. Toad*

Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction by Michael Crick

July 19, 2001: The Japanese Berlusconi?*

July 5, 2001: The Japanese Malaise*

Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan by Alex Kerr

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel

May 31, 2001: The Road to Babel*

May 17, 2001: Pearl Harbor: An Exchange

March 29, 2001: The Emperor's Secrets*

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

July 20, 2000: Tibet Disenchanted*

June 29, 2000: Found Horizon*

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood by Orville Schell

The Search for the Panchen Lama by Isabel Hilton

April 27, 2000: Dancing on a Wobbly Deck*

March 23, 2000: East Is West*

A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee

Waiting by Ha Jin

February 24, 2000: Divine Killer*

Mao: A Life by Philip Short

Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence

November 4, 1999: China in Cyberspace*

October 21, 1999: MacArthur's Children*

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

September 23, 1999: The Singapore Difference (letter)

June 10, 1999: The Man Who Would Be King*

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew by Lee Kuan Yew

Can Asians Think? by Kishore Mahbubani

April 8, 1999: The Joys and Perils of Victimhood*

March 4, 1999: Back to the Future*

February 4, 1999: Sex and Democracy in Taiwan*

November 19, 1998: Hello to Berlin*

Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie

Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy by Michael Z. Wise

September 24, 1998: Don't Say Goodbye*

East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia by Christopher Patten

July 16, 1998: In the Empire of Islam

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul

June 25, 1998: Down and Out in East Tokyo*

San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo by Edward Fowler

Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life by Sheldon Garon

May 28, 1998: Anne Frank's Afterlife, cont'd. (letter)

April 9, 1998: Anne Frank's Afterlife (letter)

February 19, 1998: The Afterlife of Anne Frank*

The Diary of Anne Frank a play by Frances Goodrich, by Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman, directed by James Lapine. at the Music Box Theater, New York City

An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary by Lawrence Graver

The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary by Ralph Melnick

December 4, 1997: India: The Perils of Democracy

The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani

The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India by Christophe Jaffrelot

October 9, 1997: Royal Comedy*

Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert by Stanley Weintraub

Mrs. Brown a film directed by John Madden. distributed by Miramax Films

October 9, 1997: Royal Tragedy*

August 14, 1997: Selling Out Hong Kong*

June 12, 1997: Holding Out in Hong Kong*

Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux

Hong Kong Remembers by Sally Blyth and Ian Wotherspoon, Introduction by the Rt. Honorable the Baroness Thatcher

The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal by Mark Roberti

Red Flag over Hong Kong by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, by David Newman, by Alvin Rabushka

The Hong Kong Advantage by Michael J. Enright, by Edith E. Scott, by David Dodwell

March 27, 1997: God's Choice*

Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

January 9, 1997: Artist of the Floating World*

Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller 12, 1997 (first at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 28-August 18, 1996) Exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, September 21, 1996-January

Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller catalog of the exhibition, by H. Perry Chapman, by Wouter Th. Kloek, by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

January 9, 1997: 'Fear & Loathing in Europe' (letter)

November 28, 1996: The Sky's the Limit*

S,M,L,XL (Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large) by Rem Koolhaas, by Bruce Mau, edited by Jennifer Sigler, photography by Hans Werlemann

October 17, 1996: Fear and Loathing in Europe*

June 6, 1996: Japan: In the Spirit World*

The Idea of Japan: Western Images, Western Myths by Ian Littlewood

A Zen Romance: One Woman's Adventures in a Monastery by Deborah Boliver Boehm

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson

June 6, 1996: 'The Singapore Way' (letter)

May 23, 1996: Mrs. Thatcher's Ghost (letter)

May 9, 1996: The Beijing Rebellion (letter)

March 21, 1996: Mrs. Thatcher's Revenge*

The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher

Letters from London by Julian Barnes

The Disenchanted Isle: Mrs. Thatcher's Capitalist Revolution by Charles Dellheim

December 21, 1995: The Beginning of the End*

Moving the Mountain a documentary film directed by Michael Apted, produced by Trudie Styler

The Gate of Heavenly Peace a documentary film directed and produced by Carma Hinton, by Richard Gordon

Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China by Craig Calhoun

November 30, 1995: 'The New War Over Hiroshima': An Exchange

October 19, 1995: The Singapore Way*

To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison by Francis T. Seow

Dare to Change: An Alternative Vision for Singapore by Dr. Chee Soon Juan

September 21, 1995: The War Over The Bomb*

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth by Gar Alperovitz, by Sanho Tree, by Edward Rouse Winstead, by Kathryn C. Morris, by David J. Williams, by Leo C. Maley III, by Thad Williamson, by Miranda Grieder

Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb by John Whittier Treat

Judgment at the Smithsonian: The Uncensored Script of the Smithsonian's 50th Anniversary Exhibit of the Enola Gay edited and introduced by Philip Nobile, afterword by Barton J. Bernstein

Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial by Robert Jay Lifton, by Greg Mitchell

Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan—And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb by Thomas B. Allen, by Norman Polmar

Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, August 10, 1945 edited by Rupert Jenkins

July 13, 1995: George Grosz's Amerika*

George Grosz: Berlin-New York Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, May 6-July 30, 1995. an exhibition Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, until April 16, 1995;

George Grosz: Berlin-New York catalog of the exhibition edited by Peter-Klaus Schuster

February 16, 1995: The Great Art of Embarrassment*

Writing Home by Alan Bennett

The Madness of King George III a film directed by Nicholas Hytner. screenplay by Alan Bennett, based on his play The Madness of George III

The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

October 20, 1994: Action Anglaise*

Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark by Alan Clark

The Faber Book of Conservatism edited by Kenneth Baker

September 22, 1994: Indian Love Call*

Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade

It Does Not Die: A Romance by Maitreyi Devi

August 11, 1994: Revenge in the Indies*

The Hidden Force by Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixera de Mattos

May 12, 1994: Japan Against Itself*

Blueprint for a New Japan by Ichiro Ozawa, translated by Louisa Rubinfein

January 13, 1994: The Way They Live Now*

Naked a film directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh, produced by Simon Channing-Williams

It's a Great Big Shame! a play by Mike Leigh

Life is Sweet directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

High Hopes directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

Four Days in July directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

Meantime directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

Abigail's Party directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

Nuts in May directed by Mike Leigh, screenplay by Mike Leigh

Bleak Moments directed by Mike Leigh

'Abigail's Party' and 'Goose-Pimples'

'Smelling a Rat' & 'Ecstasy'

Too Much of a Good Thing (broadcast by the BBC in 1992)

December 16, 1993: An Exchange on Ernst Jünger

December 16, 1993: What the Butler Saw*

The Remains of the Day directed by James Ivory, produced by Mike Nichols, by John Calley, by Ismail Merchant, screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

November 18, 1993: Soul Food*

The Phantom Empire by Geoffrey O'Brien

August 12, 1993: Weeping Tears of Nostalgia*

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus

June 24, 1993: The Anarch at Twilight*

Aladdin's Problem by Ernst Jünger, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

A Dangerous Encounter by Ernst Jünger, translated by Hilary Barr

May 27, 1993: Looking for the Center*

March 25, 1993: Americainerie*

Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952 by Kyoko Hirano

A Map of the East Photographs by Leo Rubinfien

Re-Made In Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society edited by Joseph J. Tobin

How to Work for a Japanese Boss by Jina Bacarr

December 3, 1992: Bashing Japan? (letter)

October 8, 1992: Bad Boy*

Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956–1978 by Nagisa Oshima, edited and with an introduction by Annette Michelson, translated by Dawn Lawson

July 16, 1992: The Ways of Survival*

Jakob Littners Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch by Wolfgang Koeppen

A Feast in the Garden by George Konrád, translated by Imre Goldstein

April 23, 1992: It Can't Happen Here*

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

April 9, 1992: Outsiders*

April 9, 1992: White Noise (letter)

December 19, 1991: Ghosts of Pearl Harbor*

Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans that Led to Pearl Harbor by William H. Honan

Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii Then and Now by Thurston Clarke

A Time For War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor by Robert Smith Thompson

An Enemy Among Friends by Kiyoaki Murata

Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II by James Rusbridger, by Eric Nave

December 5, 1991: Against the Japanese Grain*

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at Century's End by Norma Field

September 26, 1991: Samurai of Swat*

Slugging It Out in Japan: An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield by Warren Cromartie, with Robert Whiting

May 30, 1991: The 'We' Generation*

Our Age: Portrait of a Generation by Noel Annan

April 25, 1991: The Pax Axis*

March 28, 1991: After the Fall*

The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

February 14, 1991: Signs of Life*

India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul

January 17, 1991: The Nuclear Difference (letter)

December 20, 1990: There's No Place Like Heimat*

Vom Glück und Unglück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem Letzten Kriege by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf, translated by Ursule Molinaro, by Hedwig Rappolt

The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton

No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck

Was bleibt (extracts entitled "What Remains" were published in English translation in Granta 33) by Christa Wolf

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck

The Fourth Dimension: Interviews with Christa Wolf translated by Hilary Pilkington, Introduction by Karin McPherson

October 25, 1990: The Devils of Hiroshima*

Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars by George L. Mosse

The Bomb by Makoto Oda

The Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat by Robert Jay Lifton, by Eric Markusen

October 25, 1990: The Indonesian Way (letter)

July 19, 1990: Workers & Warriors*

The Fugitive by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels

The Great World by David Malouf

June 28, 1990: Tokyo Boogie-Woogie*

Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward Seidensticker

June 28, 1990: A Bad Scout? (letter)

April 12, 1990: The Last Days of Hong Kong*

Hong Kong Voices edited by Gerd Balke, with an introduction by Anthony Lawrence

Kowtow! by William Shawcross

City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future by Kevin Rafferty

Hong Kong Countdown by George Hicks

March 15, 1990: Boys Will Be Boys*

The Boy-Man: The Life of Lord Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal

December 21, 1989: War Crimes (letter)

December 7, 1989: Just Say Noh*

The Japan That Can Say 'No': The Card for a New US–Japan Relationship by Morita Akio, by Ishihara Shintaro

October 26, 1989: From Hirohito to Heimat*

La Mémoire vaine: du crime contre l'humanité by Alain Finkielkraut

Hotel Terminus a film by Marcel Ophuls

From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film by Anton Kaes

In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape From the Nazi Past by Richard J. Evans

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: Growing Up German by Sabine Reichel

The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials by Arnold C. Brackman

Hirohito: Behind the Myth by Edward Behr

June 1, 1989: The Bartered Bride*

In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow

The US and the Philippines: In Our Image Neudel, KCET, Los Angeles A three-part television series, produced by Andrew Rearson and Eric

Ermita: A Filipino Novel by F. Sionil José

May 18, 1989: Good Night, Sweet Princes*

Raj: A Novel by Gita Mehta

Maharaja: The Spectacular Heritage of Princely India by Andrew Robinson, photographs by Sumio Uchiyama

March 16, 1989: In Fancy Uniform (letter)

March 2, 1989: The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto

Daughter of the East by Benazir Bhutto

December 22, 1988: Art of Cruelty*

Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool's Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Takashi Kojima, by Cid Corman, by Will Petersen, with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges, an introduction by Kazuya Sakai

Childhood Years: A Memoir by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, translated by Paul McCarthy

December 8, 1988: The Last Laugh*

Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921–1952 by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

November 10, 1988: Playing for Keeps*

June 30, 1988: Wilfred of Arabia*

The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger

Visions of a Nomad by Wilfred Thesiger

March 17, 1988: What Keeps the Japanese Going?*

Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate by Michael Montgomery

Occupation by John Toland

A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945–1980 by Shunsuke Tsurumi

Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese by Donald Richie

Remaking Japan: The American Occupation As New Deal by Theodore Cohen, edited by Herbert Passin

The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children by Merry White

November 19, 1987: The Last Bengali Renaissance Man*

The Unicorn Expedition and Other Fantastic Tales of India by Satyajit Ray

The Home and the World A film directed by Satyajit Ray. produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India

August 13, 1987: Marcos and Morality*

Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy by Raymond Bonner

June 11, 1987: St. Cory and the Evil Rose*

Imelda Marcos by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa

Cory Aquino: The Story of a Revolution by Lucy Komisar

March 26, 1987: An Exchange on Burma

March 12, 1987: We Japanese*

My Life Between Japan and America by Edwin O. Reischauer

Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony by Akio Morita, with Edwin M. Reingold, by Mitsuko Shimomura

January 29, 1987: Korea: Shame & Chauvinism*

Prison Writings by Kim Dae Jung, translated by Choi Sung-Il

November 6, 1986: Saint Cory and the Yellow Revolution*

The Snap Revolution by James Fenton

People Power: An Eyewitness History edited by Monina Allarey Mercado

Bayon Ko!

Crisis in the Philippines: The Marcos Era and Beyond edited by John Bresnan

October 23, 1986: The Road from Mandalay*

August 14, 1986: Us and Others*

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower

May 29, 1986: City of Dreadful Night*

The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre, translated by Kathryn Spink

March 13, 1986: Japanese Lib*

The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941–1945 by Christopher Thorne

January 16, 1986: Who Can Redeem Mother Filipinas?*

Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines by David Haward Bain

Revolution in the Philippines: The United States in a Hall of Cracked Mirrors by Fred Poole, by Max Vanzi

The Philippines After Marcos edited by R. J. May, edited by Francisco Nemenzo

October 10, 1985: Rambo-san*

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters a film written by Paul Schrader, by Leonard Schrader, directed by Paul Schrader

Barakei: Ordeal by Roses photographs of Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe

Mishima ou la vision du vide by Marguerite Yourcenar

September 26, 1985: 'Rabu' Conquers All*

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. I: Fiction by Donald Keene

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. II: Poetry, Drama, Criticism by Donald Keene

July 18, 1985: O So Uchi!*

Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in Japan by John David Morley

From New York Review Books

René Leys
This quirky tale of spiritual adventure tells of a Westerner in Peking seeking the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City.

Books by Ian Buruma

Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 (2003)
Rene Leys (2003)
Bad Elements: Among the Rebels, Dissidents, and Democrats of Greater China. (2001)
Voltaire's Coconuts: Anglophiles and Anglophobes (1999)
Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1998)
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (1996)
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (1994)
Playing the Game (1991)
God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey (1989)
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes (1984)
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture (1984)