Here are links to a number of Vicki’s reviews of books related to Japan.

• Japan’s Far More Female Future: Bill Emmott Analyses Women in the Workplace. Published in No. 1 Shimbun, September 2020.
• How to Overcome Cultural Differences in Japan with “Step Up” by Leland Gaskins. Published in Savvy Tokyo, February 26, 2020.
• Book Review: The Seasonal Beauty of Japanese Cuisine by Sanae Nagasaka. Published in Metropolis, June 27, 2018.
• “Fast-paced thriller puts Japan and its Asian neighbors in the spotlight“, review of The Spy Across the Table by Barry Lancet.  Published in Japan Today, June 21, 2017.
• “First Rule of Marketing“, review of Make it Happen: Japanese Companies Need to Elevate Marketing as a Core Function to Succeed Outside Japan by Robert E. Peterson.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, March 2016.
• “The Great Pivot: Fujifilm’s recovery in the 21st century“, review of Innovating out of Crisis: How Fujifilm Survived (and Thrived) as its Core Business was Vanishing by Shigetaka Komori.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, December 2015.
• “Japan’s Paradoxes–Unveiled“, review of Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy.  Published in the ACCJ Journal, November 2015.
• Whisper of the Land (July 2015): Whisper of the Land:  Visions of Japan by Edward Levinson.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, July 2015.
• “Identity Crisis: Travelogue cum academic expose fails to deliver“, review of Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky.  Published in the ACCJ Journal, March 2015.
• “Breaking the Mold: the Japanese company that insists on doing things its own way“, review of Good Risks: Discovering the Secrets to ORIX’s 50 Years of Success by David W. Russell.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, January 2015.
• “Batting for Baseball’s Future“, review of Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan by Robert K. Fitts.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, December 2014.
• “Imaginary Siren: Wartime tale of radio broadcaster convicted of treason“, review of Tokyo Rose/An American Patriot: A Dual Biography by Frederick P. Close.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, October 2014.
• “Sunk Cost: A biting analysis of precursors to Pearl Harbor“, review of 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta.  Published in the ACCJ Journal, August 2014.
• “House of Cards: Refusal to acknowledge worst-case scenario is worrying“, review of Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan and the Union of Concerned Scientists.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, July 2014.
• “Trouble in Japantown: Fast paced thriller provides enjoyable read“, review of Japantown by Barry Lancet.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, May 2014.
• “An Ongoing Battle: Book Analyzes Okinawans’ Struggle for Dignity and Equality“, review of Resistant Islands:  Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States by Gavin McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu. Published in The ACCJ Journal, April 2014.
• “After the Disaster: A collection of fresh insights into 3/11“, review of Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011, edited by Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, and David H. Slater.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, March 2014.
• “Hope and Reality: ALS sufferer’s honest memoir gives insights into fatal illness“, review of 99% Thank You: Things Even ALS Cannot Take Away by Hiro Fujita.  Published in The ACCJ Journal, January 2014.
• “Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me: A conversation with author Gordon Hutchison” Published on Japan Today, April 2, 2013.
• “Decades of leadership compared in Japan, Italy“, review of Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels. Published in The Daily Yomiuri, November 23, 2003.
• “Judging the judges“, review of Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan by J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen. Published in The Daily Yomiuri, October 19, 2003.
• “Whose Constitution?“, review of Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur by Ray A. Moore and Donald L. Robinson. Published in The Daily Yomiuri, June 1, 2003.
• “The earliest Japan-UK ties“, review of Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton.  Published in The Daily Yomiuri, May 25, 2003.