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	The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island 4.23 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amy's Guide to Best Behavior in Japan: Do It Right and Be Polite! by Amy Chavez (Goodreads Author), Jun Hazuki (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Japan, Funny Side Up 3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Running the Shikoku Pilgrimage: 900 Miles to Enlightenment 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inaka: Portraits of Life in Rural Japan by Amy Chavez (Goodreads Author), Thersa Matsuura (Goodreads Author), Sam Baldwin (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echoes: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 2017 by John Dougill (Editor), Amy Chavez (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Richardson (Editor) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The poll is for a Non-Fiction group read book about Japan. Authors do not need to be Japanese to have been qualified for the nominations

Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld by Junichi Saga

6 votes 37.5%

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Jorge Almazán

3 votes 18.8%

The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island by Amy Chavez

2 votes 12.5%

Lonely Planet Journeys: Lost Japan by Alex Kerr

2 votes 12.5%

Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy by Reiner H. Hesselink

1 vote 6.3%

Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan (Volume 63) by William Wayne Farris

1 vote 6.3%

Cha-No-Yu: Japanese Tea Ceremony by A.L. Sadler

1 vote 6.3%

The Only Woman in the Room Beate Sirota Gordon

0 votes 0.0%

Modern Japanese Diaries by Donald Keene

0 votes 0.0%

Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

0 votes 0.0%

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji by G.G. Rowley

0 votes 0.0%

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

0 votes 0.0%

Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 by Michael A. Barnhart

0 votes 0.0%

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