Japanese Cooking

I have just bought a copy of "Harumi's Japanese Cooking: More than 75 Authentic and Contemporary Recipes from Japan's Most Popular Cooking Expert' - phew long title!  Let's hope the recipes aren't as complicated as the title.  We keep eating the same food at home and it mostly consists of rice, pasta or noodles with something added to it (usually seafood and tinned tomatoes!!)  - so it's time to try something new and authentic before I go off eating : /  ....it should get here in about 3/4 days yay! I hope I can find all of the ingredients needed - availability isn't the problem at least, just my non-existent Japanese.  Will see how it goes.....