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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic...
- Location(s): Japan, Northeast (Manchuria)
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1870s to the 1950s
An extraordinary portrait of one family across the years of Japan’s greatest changes; a loving, honest, moving biography of the author’s mother. Ruri Pilgrim tells the story of her family from the 1870s to the 1950s. She begins with...
Fishnets and Fire-eating A True Story
- Location(s): Hokkaido
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1992
This amusing, true story tells the tale of four young, professional dancers who travel to the island of Hokkaido, an area steeped in mystery, myths and legendary beasts. When the quartet discovers that they are living next door to...
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
- Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...
- Location(s): Japan, North Korea, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on...
For Fukui’s Sake: Two years in rural Japan
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contempory
Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan. A Japan where snakes slither down school corridors, where bears prowl dark forests and where Westerners are still regarded as curious creatures. Welcome to the world of...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1800s
The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Japanese word gaijin means “unwelcome foreigner.” It’s not profanity, but is a slur directed at non-Japanese people in Japan. Lucy is a budding journalist at Northwestern University and she’s obsessed with an exotic new student, Owen Ota, who...
Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1980s and 1990s
At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawaii for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan’s national sport, sumo. Five years later, against the backdrop of rising U.S.-Japan economic tension, Rowan...
- Location(s): Kagoshima
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 2005 / 1877
2005: While researching her Japanese ancestors, Isla travels from Scotland to Kagoshima. There, a vicious typhoon hurls her through a strange white gate and back to 1877, amid the dawn of the Satsuma Rebellion – the conflict that ended...
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