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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): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): Feudal period
(Tales of the Otori Book 1) In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel,...
- 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): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back at later 20th Century
No sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility...
- 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...
An Artist of the Floating World
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post WW2
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his...
- 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...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Because Japan 日本ですから, is a truly unabashed account of the less publicised side of life in Tokyo for a ‘foreigner’. The book offers a witty, vivid and honest insight into the daily life of a British Expat over the course of...
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