* Øen Kyushu (1973)
* Japan (1974)
* Genji Days (1977)
* Low City, High City:Tokyo fra Edo til jordskælvet (1983)
* Kikyō:Poems of Nakahara Chūya (1985)
* Dette land, Japan (1991)
* Tokyo Rising:The City Since the Great Earthquake of 1923 (1991)
* Tanizaki (1994)
* Tokyo Central:A Memoir (2000)
* The Last Great Island:An Epic Story of Japan's Nineteenth Century Transformation (2002)
* Ashikaga Yoshimasa og Silver Pavilion:The Creation of the Soul of Japan (2005)
Oversættelser:
* The Tale of Genji af Murasaki Shikibu (1976)
* The Gossamer Years af Fumiko Enchi (1981)
* Kesa og Morito af Ozaki Kōyō (1982)
* Botchan af Natsume Sōseki (1984)
* Kokoro af Natsume Sōseki (1991)
* Lys og mørke af Natsume Sōseki (1993)
* Sanshirō af Natsume Sōseki (1995)
* Grass on the Wayside af Naoya Shiga (1997)
* The Makioka Sisters af Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1998)
* The Makioka Sisters:A Novel of Modern Japan af Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (2003)