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Author, writer, The Japan Times, Nikkei Asia, Bali Times, HuffPo. Most recent book: The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter
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BOA Podcast 47: Stephen Mansfield—The Modern Japanese Garden - Books on Asia

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By Amy Chavez
| Books on Asia
Subscribe to the Books on Asia podcast Stephen Mansfield is a British writer, photographer and longtime Japan resident. His work has appeared in over 70 magazines, newspapers and journals worldwide and he’s a regular contributor to Nikkei Asia. Mansfield has published 20 books and is the author and photographer of four texts on Japanese gardens. BOA Podcast listeners may remember the author from episode 29, when we talked about his book Tokyo: A Biography.
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Review—Dreaming Japanese - Books on Asia

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By Amy Chavez
| Books on Asia
By Marty Friedman, with Jon Wiederhorn Permuted Press (Dec 3, 2024) Opus in Metal Review by Stephen Mansfield It’s a wonder I’m not seriously brain damaged, or at the very least, hearing impaired. As I recall, I spent a good deal of my teens with my head stuck inside giant speaker cabinets at rock gigs in the London area. A number of years later, standing in front of a 100watt bass amplifier, playing with a badly rehearsed punk band, I would attempt to inflict the same auditory pain on audiences.
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The best books about Japan’s countryside

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By Amy Chavez, Alex Kerr, Rebecca Otowa, John Ross
| Shepherd
This is one of the first books on Japan that I read when I moved to the country in 1997, and it still resonates with me. While still a college student, Alex Kerr buys a rundown farmhouse in the Iya Valley of Shikoku, re-thatches it, and maintains the traditional Japanese architecture of pre-WWII Japanese wooden houses. Kerr went on to write many more books on Japan, most of which have become classics.
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