/lit/ - Literature

Hello /lit/, I hope you can help me out.

I'm very interested in Japan's history, culture and I'm generally curious how life in Japan is nowadays, so I'm looking for good books to read.
Please no fiction or "westernized" works.
A coworker told me about a book he read, where a guy lived there for 10 years and explains how Japan works, it sounded really interesting, unfortunately the book is only available in Russian.

Can you recommend me something?


I checked the catalog, archive and asked on /jp/ before, but I couldn't find anything like that, oh and /jp/ informed me that their board is only for touhous and onaholes and the like.