Bruce Roscoe 
Windows on Japan 

In Windows on Japan a New Zealander walks across rural Japan and ponders centuries-old perceptions about the country that is still prisoner to an isolationist past. In a deeply insightful commentary, the author surveys cultural, social and political mores, explores the wellspring of racial perception and the problem of the memory of war, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that perplexes as much as it pleases.