japan – Meditations

May 13, 2025

Review: Clouds Above the Hill Vol. II, Ryotaro Shiba

Rating: 5 out of 5 After some fifteen years, this is still very much one of my all time favourite books. Though Masaoka Shiki’s…

March 31, 2025

Rating: 5 out of 5 The first volume in this momentous series is always the slowest, not for the time that passes, but for…

June 5, 2024

Rating: 3 out of 5 Having just read a Yoshikawa Eiji, I thought I would try another. This one ended up being rather disappointing…

May 29, 2024

Rating: 5 out of 5 I wonder how I’ve only come up against Yoshikawa Eiji now. To be truthful, I used to read far…

May 16, 2024

Rating: 5 out of 5 This was not the first time I read ‘Shogun’, but unlike some other novels by Mr Clavell, I haven’t…

December 9, 2023

Rating: 5 out of 5 I should start this review by saying that I’m intricately involved with this title given I’m it’s publisher. Yet,…

July 15, 2023

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Ravina’s look into Japan was very interesting. However, I didn’t find the author’s attempt to label the actions…

August 3, 2022

Rating: 4 out of 5 We know the names of Western philosophy, but for many the comparable fellows of the east are unknown. This…

June 17, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 I was confused by the title, “Warlord Armies”, when I picked this up, and I have to say I’m…

June 15, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Newark’s short but detailed summary of ‘The Mongols’ is interesting primarily because of it’s focus on Asia. Unlike…