Articles
- “Fermentation town in Japan looking to build culture via healthy foods,” Toma Mochizuki, Kyodo News (Sept. 7, 2019)
- “With great demographics comes great power: Why population will drive geopolitics,” Nicholas Eberhardt, Foreign Affairs (July/Aug. 2019)
- “The population bust: demographic decline and the end of capitalism as we know it,” Zachary Karabell, Foreign Affairs (July/Aug. 2019)
- “‘This is not a “what if” story’: Tokyo braces for the earthquake of a century,” Daniel Hurst, The Guardian (June 12, 2019)
- “South Korea once recycled 2% of its food waste. Now it recycles 95%,” Douglas Broom, World Economic Forum (April 12, 2019)
- “Can anything stop rural decline?” Alana Semuels, The Atlantic (Aug. 23, 2017)
- “Constitutional Change in Japan: The Politics of Revision,” Council on Foreign Relations
Articles not about Japan
Books about Japan
Non-Fiction about Japan
- Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival, David Pilling (2014)
- A Brief History of Japan, Jonathan Clements (2017)
- Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan, Alex Kerr (2001)
- Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, Gretel Ehrlich (2013)
- Ghosts of the Tsunami, Richard Lloyd Parry (2017)
- Hiroshima, John Hersey (1947, most recent edition published 1985)
- In Search of Buddha’s Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads, Christine Toomey (2016)
- Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power, Sheila Smith (2019)
- Japan: The Precarious Future, Frank Baldwin and Anne Allison (Eds.) (2015)
- Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan, Azby Brown (2009)
- Multiethnic Japan, John Lie (2004)
- Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War, Susan Southard (2017)
- Precarious Japan, Anne Allison (2013)
- Shinkansen: From bullet train to symbol of modern Japan, Christopher Hood (2006)
- The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century, Andre Sorenson (2002)
- Tokyo: A Biography, Steven Mansfield (2014)
- Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, Marie Mutsuki Mockett (2015)
Non-Fiction beyond Japan (that has been useful to my work here, or has been a good read over the past year)
- Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, Alan Weisman (2013)
- The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures, Erin Meyer (2014)
- Demography: A Very Short Introduction, Sarah Harper (2018)
- The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America, Alan Mallach (2018)
- Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson (2019)
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond (2016)
- The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World, Paul Morland (2019)
- How Population Change Will Transform Our World, Sarah Harper (2016)
- Life is So Good, George Dawson and Richard Glaubman (2000)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris (2000)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2014)
- The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace Wells (2019)
- A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, Richard Haass (2017)
- The World Without Us, Alan Weisman (2007)
Fiction about Japan
- Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami (translated into English in 2019). For more about this amazing novel, see this review in The New York Times.
- A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (2013).
Mostly City Stuff 