Who recommends it
- The Best Books About JapanReading list
Ready for some off-the-beaten-path exploration? “Lost Japan” by Alex Kerr is your ticket. This deeply personal and articulate book presents a side of Japan that many travel guides and history books overlook – the fading heart of traditional Japan. Kerr, an American-born Japanese resident, shares his own experiences of…
- The Best Books on Japanese HistoryReading list
Lost Japan is a book by Alex Kerr that draws on 30 years of the author’s personal experience in Japan. Alex Kerr is an American writer and Japanologist. He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan.
- Jason Y. NgInterview
Lost Japan by Alex Kerr. The book offers a delicious and digestible feast of Japanese culture, geography and history. It reminds me of The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth, which I read more than a decade ago while travelling in Japan.
- Beth KemptonInterview
The books I recommend most are Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Lost Japan by Alex Kerr.
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