Tan Twan Eng’s evocative novel about loss, art and memory was shortlisted for a Man Booker Prize in 2012.

Chiyo Uno’s semi-autobiographical novel captures the spirit of a woman unrestrained by social norms.

Published in 1985, John David Morley’s “Pictures from the Water Trade” foreshadowed contemporary methods and approaches to travel writing about Japan.

Roger Pulvers’ “Peaceful Circumstances” is a coming-of-age novel about a young woman at a time when the world is rapidly unraveling.

Travel writing can change your life, or at least nudge it in a different direction. In these troubled times, it can also console and inspire.

A.L. Sadler examines in minute detail the origins of tea drinking and the rich and complex components of its ritualization.

COVID-19 has put a pause on travel, but that doesn’t mean we can’t plan. The Japan Times’ Escape page regulars write about where they want to go in Japan once we see the back of COVID-19.

If Japanese landscape gardeners looked toward mountains and river valleys for inspiration in creating the rock arrangements that form the power grids of their gardens, infusing natural elements with Taoist and Buddhist principles, it is likely that Okinawans cast their eyes over the seas ...

Journalist Pete Hamill's anthology of 13 Tokyo-based stories bring a cast of multicultural characters, united by their lives in the metropolis, to life.

Engagingly written and well-researched, Victoria Abbott Riccardi's culinary memoir, "Untangling My Chopsticks," traces her year immersed in Kyoto's kaiseki culture.