Looking for English language cookbooks to get me started on Japanese food. Any recommendations?

...and I want the edit button back so my mistakes don't sit there like big mistakes.
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Cooking-Simple-Shizuo-Tsuji/dp/1568363885

and I forgot to link the book. http://food52.com/hotline/20465-looking-for-english-language-cookbooks-to-get-me-started-on-japanese-food-any-recommendations

I love all the above suggestion. But Japaneese Cooking: A Simple Art. Is the definitive "bible" of Julia Child reputation for the style of cooking. It's probably one of the most informative classic cookbooks made in the past 50 years.

I recommend any and all books by the marvelous Elizabeth Andoh. We thoroughly enjoy everything I make from them. And she's so easy to understand. Her books are written from the perspective of a teacher.

I would skip the books (unless you really learn better reading), and go with video channel's on YouTube. The following channels are fun and very informative: "Cooking With Dog" is venerable and has been around for years; "RunnyRunny999" is one simple guy, who cooks a wide variety of Japanese and Japanese inspired recipes; "Ochikeron" is a nice woman, who cooks a variety of traditional Japanese foods and occasionally Western foods.

A great web blog is www.justhungry.com She explains everything you want to know about Japanese cooking and provides a great basic introduction to such areas as: stocking your pantry, equipment, ingredient substitutions - and recipes of course!
I agree with all cookbooks suggested by the other Food52's except Momofuko.
When I started exploring Japanese cooking I used Harumi's Japanese Cooking by Harumi Kurihara. I have a few of her English cookbooks and it was a great introduction. Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen by Elizabeth Andoh is wonderful as well. One of my 2 favorite cookbooks this year is Japanese Farm Food. Enjoy!

Japanese Farm Food by Nancy Singleton Hachisu.

I like Everyday Harumi. Momofuku is a good cookbook, and it's one of the few that I've read cover to cover. On the other hand, it assumes a lot of its readers and is more cheffy. For a beginner book, look into Japanese home cooking.

For something edgier there is David Chang's "Momofuku". "Momofuku" means "lucky peach" in Japanese, and in fact has spawned a brilliant quarterly magazine under that name. Chang is Korean-American but he studied in Japan and writes rapturously about noodles, like ramen. I think he is the most important and influential chef in America right now. Parental guidance: he uses the "F" word more than I've ever seen in a cookbook before.

Maybe something by Harumi Kurihara, like "Harumi's Japanese Cooking" which focuses more on Japanese home cooking. Though honestly, when it comes to Japanese home cooking, I usually head over to youtube and watch the video channels of Cookingwithdog and Runnyrunny999.

"Hiroko's American Kitchen" is excellent -- full of integrity, authoritative, and delightfully readable. http://www.hirokoskitchen.com/products ;o)

Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen by Elizabeth Andoh