Good books from a foreigners perspective

I've been looking for good books on Japan written by foreigners that have the same feel as "Hokkaido Highway Blues" by Will Ferguson, or "Lost Japan" by Alex Kerr. Basically non-fiction books that account a foreigners travels in Japan. Any suggestions? If you know some fiction ones, go ahead and name those as well!

GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN by Lafcadio Hearn,published by the Charles E. Tuttle company (editor specializing in books about Japan). My copy is from 1996. Hearn is a 19th century writer, Irish-Greek, studied in France, lived in the USA then Japan. His books are still published and amazingly one can still find many of the sites he wrote about in several books. I visited one of his home in Matsue and his tomb in Tokyo.

try these - I enjoyed them:
Looking for the Lost - Alan Booth

Road to Sata - Alan Booth

Learning to Bow - Bruce Feiler

Inland Sea - Donald Richie

Traveler's Tales Japan: True Stories - Donald George - this is a collection of many exerpts and has a list of several books in the back

I think you've already found one of my favorites - Hokkaido Hwy Blues.

Hope this helps.

I forgot one - 36 Views of Mt. Fuji - I'm sorry, I don't have the author - this is another good book.

This is one of those books where the copyright has expired in many countries and it can be downloaded as e-book from many locations legally: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8130

Otherwise I would recommend "Dogs and Demons" by Alex Kerr. I noticed that you already read "Hokkaido Highway Blues" by Will Ferguson; it is one of my favourite books about Japan ^_^

Here are some more:
http://www.2think.org/japan.shtml

Thanks for your recommendations! I have Dogs and Demons and will be reading that one next...

These are very good idiosyncratic books about travelling Japan by bicycle.
The Sun in my Eyes and A Ride in the Neon Sun.
Both by Josie Dew

There is also Nicolas Bouvier's "Japanese Chronicles". A Swiss writer who travelled and lived in Japan in the 50's. It was written in French but there is an English translation.