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- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1970s
The author, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider’s look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. The new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of...
Geisha, a Life (Geisha of Gion)
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s to 1980s
Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents’ home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Chronically underemployed Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura has taken a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a Korean student in a Japanese high school, Sugihara has had to defend himself against all kinds of bullies. But nothing could have prepared him for the heartache he feels when he falls hopelessly in love with a...
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
- Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Current
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16/17thth Century
In this epic story of good vs. evil, a small village defies an oppressive regime and finds freedom through the power of faith. Hidden by the Leaves, book one of S D L Curry’s ‘Hidden Trilogy’, follows Father Joaquim...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Eriko really wouldn’t mind being savaged, if it was her best friend doing the savaging … Eriko’s life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan’s largest trading companies....
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan’s beloved coming-of-age classic on what really matters in life The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out into the city of his childhood. Struck by...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. Florentyna begins a new job as a tour...
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