Reviews for Among Buddhas in Japan

The average rating for Among Buddhas in Japan based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-05-24 00:00:00 David Ahlers The way I understand it, this volume slaps a couple of books together. I can only speak for the first one, but I enjoyed it hugely. That it ends without much of a wrap-up isn't really a problem, not least because its author was 23 years old and still had a lot of living and loving to do. From what I hear, he's still at it.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-11-11 00:00:00 Ryan M Cool This might of been an interesting book if Mencken was able to rein in his outsized ego. In one account, Mencken, a young newspaperman living in Baltimore and whose only other experience was working in his Uncle's cigar business, gets a jump on the other papers by astutely describing a naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War which has yet to take place by sheer deductive reasoning. I think to enjoy Mencken, you have to think as much of him as he did himself. And that's a tall order.