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Japan: Culture and Literature

• JAPANESE CULTURE AND ART: QUIET BEAUTY, HUMAN TREASURES, COOL JAPAN AND THE GALAPAGOS SYNDROME
• JAPANESE CULTURE AND HISTORY: ART AND LITERATURE FROM THE NARA, HEIAN, MOMOYAMA AND EDO PERIODS
• CLASSIC JAPANESE LITERATURE: FOLK TALES, GHOST STORIES, KENKO AND THE TALE OF 47 LOYAL ASSASSINS
• TALE OF GENJI, MURASAKI SHIKIBU AND WOMEN IN THE STORY
• MATSUO BASHO, HAIKU, THE MANYOSHU AND JAPANESE POETRY
• LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY JAPANESE WRITERS: DAZAI, AKUTAGAWA, NATSUME,
• LATE 20TH CENTURY JAPANESE WRITERS: TANIZAKI, MISHIMA AND OE
• POPULAR BOOKS AND WRITERS IN JAPAN: KEIGO HIGASHINORYU MU, BANANA YOSHIMOTO, KAZUO ISHIGURO AND CELL PHONE NOVELS
• HARUKI MURAKAMI: HIS LIFE, HIS BOOKS, POPULARITY ABROAD AND NORWEGIAN WOOD FILM
• WESTERN BOOKS AND WRITERS AND JAPAN; LAFCADIO HEARN, JAMES BOND, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, MEMOIRS OF A GESIHA AND DONALD KEENE
• BOOKS, CELL PHONE NOVELS AND THE JAPANESE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY