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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary from 2012
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he’d made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a “deep and moody” (New York Times Book Review) journey through the dark side of Japan’s consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable, personal debt and fall prey to dangerous...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than Hijiri, someone she works with. When she sees her reflection, she’s confronted with a...
- Location(s): Mount Fuji
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn’s Neck is also a shrewd study of cross-cultural obsessions, and of erotic, romantic and familial love. The American author Alan Brown crosses both...