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I can't speak for most people, but when I went through my "I want to live in Japan" phase it was due to reading Confucius Lives Next Door, which is a book about how western culture can learn from eastern culture based on the author's experiences in Japan. It's a wonderful book, but reading responses to it (mostly surrounding the author's cherrypicking of the good elements while only spending a chapter talking about the bad) did balance out my viewpoint a lot.
Here are a few good ones that I have read and would definitely reccomend.
Speed Tribes: Days and Night's with Japan's Next Generation
by Karl Taro Greenfeld
> http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Tribes-Nights-Japans-Generation/dp/0060926651/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267655889&sr=8-1
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
by T.R. Reid
> http://www.amazon.com/Confucius-Lives-Next-Door-Teaches/dp/0679777601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267655960&sr=1-1#noop
Black Passenger Yellow Cabs: Of Exile And Excess In Japan
by Stefhen F. D. Bryan
> http://www.amazon.com/Black-Passenger-Yellow-Cabs-Excess/dp/0615268102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267656194&sr=1-1
those should keep you busy for a while.
Jake Aldenstein (first non Japanese reporter for a major Japanese newspaper) wrote a book called Tokyo Vice, which has elements of what you are looking for. Its mostly about his life as a gaijin reporter, versus just being a gaijin.