Japan in the Land of the Broken-Hearted

The stories of six foreigners--one of them, the 19th century writer, Lafcadio Hearn--who fall in and out of love with Japan. The book uses their stories to examine the struggle between Japan adn those who sould hope not only to understand her, but to be accepted. "A graceful, honest, useful book about Japan," Martin Weinstein, Newsday