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The Haiku Murder

The Haiku Murder
  • Author(s): Fran Pickering
  • Location(s): Matsuyama, Shikoku
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the second book in the Josie Clark in Japan mystery series. The first book is The Cherry Blossom Murder. A haiku-writing trip turns to tragedy when charismatic financier Mr Ando falls from the top of Matsuyama castle....

The Honjin Murders

The Honjin Murders
  • Author(s): Seishi Yokomizo
  • Location(s): Okamura, Japan
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s

Japan’s greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid...

The Housekeeper and the Professor

The Housekeeper and the Professor
  • Author(s): Yoko Ogawa
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar...

The Hunters

The Hunters
  • Author(s): James Salter
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill – sometimes...

The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea
  • Author(s): Donald Richie
  • Location(s): Japanese Inland Sea (Seto)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

“Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value.”-Times Literary Supplement. “Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful...

The Kamogawa Food Detectives

The Kamogawa Food Detectives
  • Author(s): Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just...

The Kizuna Coast

The Kizuna Coast
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Tōhoku, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2011

When a devastating earthquake rocks Japan’s northeast coast, a tsunami follows and Rei Shimura is drawn into her most rugged adventure yet. The mystery begins with an SOS from Rei’s friend, the antiques dealer, Yasushi Ishida, who’s trapped among...

The Last Concubine: The Shogun Quartet #2

The Last Concubine: The Shogun Quartet #2
  • Author(s): Lesley Downer
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Japan, 1865, the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man – the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is...

The Last Paper Crane

The Last Paper Crane
  • Author(s): Kerry Drewery, Natsko Seki (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Hiroshima
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945

A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what...

The Library of Heartbeats

The Library of Heartbeats
  • Author(s): Laura Imai Messina
  • Location(s): Kamakura, Teshima
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still...

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