Traveling Japan’s Roji is a nonfiction work in which Yoshihiro Uehara travels through communities once described by Kenji Nakagami as roji, while also facing his own origins. Moving through places including Osaka, Aomori, Akita, Tokyo, Shiga, and Okinawa, it quietly records local memory and contemporary life.

Walking through roji across Japan, the book looks at memories inscribed in places and the lives of people today.

This nonfiction work follows twelve years of home care for the author's mother with ALS, told through the bodily experience of caregiving and the search for the patient's will. It reconsiders how care can sustain life and dignity when speech and movement are gradually taken away.

From the faint responses of an unmoving body, the book reads a will that still seeks to live.