01571nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_104603 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 80 915.2 G567 Gluck, Jay Japan inside out : 1341 pages; 135 maps and plans; 85 sketches; 2099 Festival dates Jay Gluck, Sumi Gluck and Garet Gluck Hiroshima, Japan Personally Oriented 1992 This husband-wife-son team (Jay, Sumi, and Garet Gluck, respectively) have lived for many years in Japan, and their tightly packed volume--revised for the first time since it initially appeared in 1964--provides a plethora of useful and sound advice for the visitor. While most guidebooks attempt an impersonal posture, this one offers refreshingly frank, opinionated, and sometimes passionate personal comments, as well as lively explanations and descriptions of such subjects as sumo, Japanese education, and business practices. The book is organized by region and covers not only where to go but what to do; 2099 local festival dates are given. The prose is choppy; June Kinoshita and Nicholas Palevsky's Gateway to Japan ( LJ 4/15/90) is a more polished guidebook. But the Glucks' work contains so much information (including 135 maps) that it should be almost every library's next selection for an introduction to Japan. Nhật Bản Địa lý và du hành Minh Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ