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The Restaurant of Love Regained
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in modern-day Japan, the story follows Rinko, who is a young woman who finds herself penniless when her boyfriend clears their flat of all of her possessions. She has nowhere to go so she decides to return to...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Novella
- Era(s): Modern
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to...
Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
Post war Japan…The police force barely functions, and a variety of unpleasant individuals struggle for supremacy in Tokyo’s thriving black market. Peace’s protagonist, Detective Minami, is assigned a difficult case: the bodies of two women are found in Sheba...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop...
- Location(s): Nagasaki
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes. Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A young woman moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to overcome her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. But she spends her time staring out of the window, only to realise that...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Thirteen short stories told by passengers stranded for the night at Tokyo airport. A tenuous link to Tokyo, but neverthless a collection of fairytales that are interesting.
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
She found sanctuary in a supermarket. Now she’s about to lose it. Keiko isn’t normal. At school and university, people find her odd, and her family worries she will never fit in. To make them happy, Keiko takes a...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Future
The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020 How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem? Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon? Why are so many things in Japan the opposite...
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