It Begins Again

I asked to be taken to a random blog from Windy City Webloggers and I got this dude's blog. Which was interesting enough. But what I really like is his large number of photographs of the trip to Japan he and his wife took this summer. I want to go to Japan. Not to teach or anything...mainly to eat and go out into the country. What's that book I'm thinking of? The one about a dude going to a country resort and a prostitute? Or something.