Looks like a cross between Bruun-Singer and Heinzel-Fitter-Parslow. I like it! Those were my favorite field guides as a kid. And no, I was never a bird-watcher. More of a bird-book watcher, actually. The similarities with Heinzel, Fitter and Parslow's Über-guide to European birds are obvious, since “A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan” includes virtually every birdie ever to make a landfall in the land of the rising sun, including the Blackbird (reported once) and the Bonin Island Thrush (extinct, only known from a few specimens collected two centuries ago). It's good to know that Japanese kids have axess to their very own “Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East”.
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