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Can anyone recommend a book about traveling in Japan?

Japan’s modern geography started relatively late, mainly developed with the introduction of Western geographical ideas after the Meiji Restoration (1868). The first to introduce Western geographical ideas to Japan and carry out geographical enlightenment education were: Fukuzawa Yukichi ("The End of the World" 1869), Uchimura Kanzo ("Geographical Examination" 1894) and Shiga Shigeo ("The End of the World" 1894) "Japanese Landscape" 1894)

A masterpiece of analyzing the national character of East Asian nations: The Ugly Japanese

This book is an analysis of East Asian nations before Bo Yang's "The Ugly Chinese" A national masterpiece. This is not an abusive work to vent nationalist sentiments, but a scholar's treatise that calmly describes and analyzes Japanese spirit, culture, life, and society. The writing style of this book is smooth and beautiful, the narrative is lively and lively, and it is highly readable without losing its academic foundation. This is a Japanese culture reader that is both interesting and profound. The author of this book, Professor Takahashi Shiki, a Japanese anthropologist, taught in South America for eight years before the 1970s. He used his personal experience as a clue and used strong contrasting techniques to reveal the ideological concepts and social etiquette of the Japanese. Various shortcomings in aspects such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, personality and temperament, work attitude, sexual awareness, etc. caused a sensation in Japan when it was first published in 1970, but it was also criticized and was kept anonymous several times.

Yuji Aida, a professor at Kyoto University who strongly recommended this book at the time, commented that it is "a book that constantly impacts and hurts the readers' hearts" and is "the most worth reading and should be engraved in the hearts of Japanese people seeking new development."