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Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
- Location(s): Japan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia (Malaya), New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Current
Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
I may be a fourth grader, but I know more than some adults. After all, I take notes every day, and I read all kinds of books. But now, there’s penguins in my town! I know it has something...
Pop Flies, Robo-pets and Other Disasters
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team—a slugger with pro potential, according to his coach. Now that his father’s work in the US has come...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
These six stories are all inspired by Tokyo, a magical place that writer Wendy Nelson Tokunaga has observed both first-hand and from afar. A Tokyo teenager obsessed with becoming an idol singer despite her mother’s trepidations. An American bar...
- Location(s): Sendai
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Masaharu Aoyagi is a driver for a delivery company in the city of Sendai in northern Japan. Two years ago he had achieved brief notoriety for rescuing a movie actress from a robbery attempt while making a delivery to...
Rice Noodle Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan’s extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice, along with 195 color photographs. In this 5000-mile journey through the noodle shops, tempura...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
One of Soseki’s most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving ‘real world’ of Tokyo, its women and university. In...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter railway, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times. A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1960s
Japan’s economic recovery after the second world war was miraculous. Singular Rebellion, which is set in the 1960s, provides a comic insight into that period. When Eisuke Mabuchi, a recent widower and employee of a small Tokyo electrics firm,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1990s
From the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs. Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess...
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