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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Jill is reeling from a bad relationship, and she decides to depart for Japan for a fresh start. She falls in love with the culture, and Yusuke Yamashiro. Although she is American, they decide to marry and she soon...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Stuck. That’s how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels. Stuck with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms, which just might be the first...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 2011/2012
Royalties from the sale of this book will go to charities working towards the reconstruction of north-eastern Japan. 11th March 2011. An earthquake occurring off the north-eastern coast of Japan – magnitude 9.0, duration six minutes – unleashed a...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1929 onwards
Chiyo-chan is a nine year old girl from a small fishing village,who has experienced a simple life until her Mother becomes fatally ill. She is sent by her Father to Gion, one of the Geisha areas of districts of...
- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world...
Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy 2)
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
In occupied Tokyo a man arrives at a bank talking of a dysentery outbreak, which he has been sent to treat. He administers a potion, and they fall dead. He robs the bank and disappears. Nothing has ever happened...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A different side of Japan is depicted by John Haylock, who has spent many years in the country and shows the reader a very different side in this novel. A man takes a trip to Kyoto after shipping his...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Four women work nights together at a bento box factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, and form a friendship based on their mutual desperation at the quality of their home lives. Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): mid 200s onwards
A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Roppongi is an ‘adventure-travel-fiction’ story, exploring the crazy and often dangerous world which is living and working as a foreigner in the Roppongi nightlife industry of Tokyo, Japan. The novel follows the (mis)adventures of its travel-addicted protagonist Zack, and...
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