Japan Journals 1947-2004

"Everyone who is engaged in a cultural way with Japan...has spent time in the company of this wise, irreverent, hugely knowledgeable and charmingly modest man....In all the years Richie has lived in Japan, he has never lost his curiosity and freshness of vision. His journals are wonderfully evocative and full of humor, but also honest, introspective and often poignant. Growing older, he finds himself examining just what it is that has kept him for so long in a country where he will forever be seen as an outsider. To be IN a country but not OF it breeds loneliness, but also bestows freedom. In Japan, it seems, Donald Richie has discovered a place where he has been free to be himself."Richie, Donald is the author of 'Japan Journals 1947-2004', published 2004 under ISBN 9781880656914 and ISBN 1880656914.