9 Best japanese literature books like Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun by Chris Broad

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Similar categories in Lee Mi-ye's DallerGut Dream Department Store book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• asia
• audiobook

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I don't think humans are some self-driving car racing toward the finish line. We must own our lives, start the engine ourselves, and sometimes put on brakes."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I believe there are two ways to love your life, Penny. The first is to work hard to change your life when you feel unsatisfied.' 'That seems about right.' Penny nods. 'The second option may look easi…"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• audiobook
• asia
• japanese literature
• japan

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• travel
• audiobook

"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• nonfiction
• biography
• audiobook

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• nonfiction
• biography
• audiobook

"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1) book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• audiobook
• japanese literature
• japan

"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

Similar categories in Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• biography
• memoir
• travel
• asia
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• audiobook

Similar categories in Hwang Bo-Reum's Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• audiobook

"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Hisashi Kashiwai's The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• audiobook
• japanese literature
• japan

"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Similar categories in Gary Stevenson's The Trading Game: A Confession book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir
• audiobook

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• audiobook
• japanese literature
• japan

"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Similar categories in Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• audiobook
• japanese literature
• japan

Similar categories in Hanako Footman's Mongrel book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• japanese literature
• japan

"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

Similar categories in Iain Maloney's The Only Gaijin in the Village book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• biography
• memoir
• travel
• asia
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• japan

Similar categories in Nanako Hanada's The Bookshop Woman book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• memoir
• asia
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• audiobook

Similar categories in Nick Bradley's Four Seasons in Japan book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• audiobook
• asia
• japanese literature
• japan

"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

Similar categories in Dom Joly's The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• travel
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld book and Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

• nonfiction
• japan

"Due diligence involves a lot of paperwork and sometimes more footwork than you could possibly imagine; hopefully you’ll find the process of getting the job done as fascinating as I do. Real-world puz…"

-Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld