Robert Whiting is an American author and journalist who has written several books on contemporary Japanese culture—which include topics such as baseball and American gangsters operating in Japan. He was born in New Jersey, grew up in Eureka, California and graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo. He has lived largely in Japan since arriving there in 1962; he divides his time between homes in Tokyo and California.

Tokyo Underworld
2012
ISBN 9781780330679
The devils
1961
ISBN 9780573011016
You gotta have wa
1989
ISBN 9780307455970
The blind devotion of the people
1989
ISBN 9780521356060
Local responses to the English Reformation
1998
ISBN 9780312211851
The Meaning of Ichiro
2004
ISBN 9780446565226
The Reformation of the English Parish Church
2010
ISBN 9780511679803
Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary
2017
ISBN 9789515185815
Tokyo Junkie
2021
ISBN 9781611720679