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- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As the only woman in her office, Ms Shibata is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can’t clear away her coworkers’ dirty cups – because she’s pregnant and the smell nauseates her....
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 2001
Tokyo, July 2001: Hard-boiled reporter Billy Chaka is back in the neon metropolis interviewing a has-been pop singer turned pachinko fanatic for Youth in Asia magazine. Looks like an easy assignment until he witnesses a beautiful young woman suffer...
- Location(s): China, Japan, Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WWII
In 1939, nineteen-year-old Nobuko Ito, born and raised in Fresno, California, sails to Japan to learn the culture and customs of her ancestors. She lives with her host family in the mountain village of Nishimi, where her host, her...
- Location(s): London, Colorado, Japan, Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1914-1920 and 1939
At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s...
Faith Faraday and the Cyber Samurai
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Future
They named her Faith, but she has none, at least not in these AIs they lift up as gods. Disguised as a dominatrix pizza delivery driver, Faith Faraday is infiltrating the Hollow, the research bunker deep inside Mt. Fuji....
Falling From the Floating World
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Ray is sacked from his job in London, he goes to Japan hoping to start his life afresh. Things begin well: he lands work as an English teacher and strikes up a relationship with the beautiful, intriguing Tomoe....
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘A brilliant modern love story. I found it atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever and universal in its exploration of love, family and identity. I loved it’ Cathy Rentzenbrink Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman’s quest for acceptance in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori”...
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