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Books on Asia — 94 episodes
New Lonely Planet Guides on Japan
Adachi Masao: Pink Films, Red Politics, with William Andrews
The Devil’s Chow: A Chinese Food History–Stephen Jack
Taiwan 22: Travels in Paradox—Tyrel Cameron Eskelson
What's it like to host a US Military Base? Jon Mitchell on Okinawa
Old Lhasa: A Biography
Golden Age of China Books: The 1930s
Japanese Literary Prizes—How many do you know?
Taiwan Travelogue: Food and Friendship in Japanese Formosa
Replay: Tina deBellegard—The Art of the Short Story
Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War
Don Weiss: Future of the Shikoku Pilgrimage
Sima Qian–China’s Grand Historian (with Tim McGirk)
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
Jason Nieling and Paul Bresin of the Sightseeing Japan
Simon Elegant’s City on Fire: A Novel of Hong Kong
Jane Lawson: Secret Japan
Replay: Alex Kerr on Finding the Heart Sutra
Anna Beth Keim: A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao
Michael Freiling—100 Poems from Old Japan
Bruce Rutledge and Chin Music Press
Steven Herman: Behind the White House Curtain
David Leffman "A Murder in Yunnan"
Anti Foreign Sentiment, Overtourism and Tourist Behvavior
Replay: Angus Waycott Walks Sado Island
Robert Norris on Living and Writing in Japan
T.R.Reid and How to Ski Japan!
China's Backstory with Lee Moore
Japan Guides and Guidebooks 1891 to 2019
Simon Winchester’s Biography of Joseph Needham (with Tim McGirk)
New 2026 Book Releases on Japan, Taiwan
Harmony Express: Travels by Train through China with Thomas Bird
The 1910 Japan-British Exhibition
Amy Reads from her Book: The Widow, The Priest & The Octopus Hunter
Amy & John Discuss Childhood Reading Influences
Carol Isaak on Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden
Books on Korean Islands with John Ross and Chris Tharp
Amy & John Discuss Gift Book Ideas for the Holidays
Ted Goossen on Translating Hiromi Kawakami's "Third Love"
Sam Baldwin–Self-publishing Success and a New Travel Book Review Website
What's it Like to Live in China? Mark Kitto on China Running Dog
The Wondrous Elixir of the Two Chinese Lovers–Tim McGirk
Lauren Scharf on Japanese traditional houses: minka and akiya
A Tale of Three Tribes in Dutch Formosa
Sally Burdon: Asia Bookroom and rare books
Jake Adelstein: The Devil Takes Bitcoin
Stephen Mansfield on The Modern Japanese Garden
Book Talk: Korea
Hector Garcia—The Spirit of Shinto
Guitarist Marty Friedman and Dreaming Japanese
Ginny Takemori on Translating Cats
Lina Terrell on Translating Okinawa
Igor Prusa "Scandal in Japan"
Baye McNeil talks about Racism in Japan
Michael Pronko's New Books: Shitamachi Scam and Tokyo Tempos
Paul Martin on Japanese Swords
Burritt Sabin on Yokohama and Kamakura
Lesley Downer and How Empresses shaped Japan
Robert Whiting—Gangsters, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies
The Healing Power of Female Poet Otagaki Rengetsu
Angus Waycott Walks Sado Island
The Future of Books and AI
Fred Schodt on His Historical Non-Fiction on Japan
John Grant Ross on Taiwan & Japan
Japan's 31 Passions, with John Rucynski
Stephen Mansfield Talks Tokyo
Translating Hiromi Ito's "The Thorn Puller" with Jeffrey Angles
Sarah Coomber and the Female Experience Teaching in Japan
Azby Brown on Sustainability and his Book “Just Enough”
Traveling Japan as a Blind Person, with Maud Rowell
Moving to Japan's Countryside with Iain Maloney
The Spirit of Shizen: The Nature of Japan through 72 Seasons, with Robert Weis
Cody Poulton on Japanese Performing Arts
John Stevens, a lifetime of publishing
Abby Denson talks Japan via Comics
Novelist David Joiner talks “Kanazawa"
Liza Dalby on Geisha, Kimonos, and Translating Setouchi Jakucho's "Places"
Kathleen Burkinshaw, second-generation A-bomb victim
Meredith McKinney on Saigyō and "Gazing at the Moon"
Alex Kerr Discusses his Latest Book—Another Bangkok
The Yamamba--Japanese Mountain Witch--with Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich
Kyoto's Gion Festival: Exploring its Mysteries with Catherine Pawasarat
The Art of the Short Story with Tina deBellegarde
Robert Whiting Talks Baseball and Tokyo Junkie
Wes Lang, Hiking and Trekking the Japan Alps and Mount Fuji
Janine Beichman on translating Japanese Haiku and Tanka
Alex Kerr, author of Finding the Heart Sutra
Richard Lloyd Parry, author of Ghosts of the Tsunami
Lena Baibikov, translator of Haruki Murakami's non-fiction
William Scott Wilson, author of Walking the Kiso Road
Barry Lancet, author of Tokyo Kill
Juliet Winters Carpenter on translating Japanese Literature
Judith Pascoe on Wuthering Heights in Japan
John Dougill, founder of Writers in Kyoto