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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners’ lives … A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats...
- 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....
- Location(s): 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...
The Hikikomori: The Girl Who Couldn’t Go Outside
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hikikomori are Japanese recluses. Right now in Japan over a million hikikomori are hiding in their bedrooms, hiding from their past and future. Hiding from the disappointment that having dreams can bring. Miko is a hikikomori. As Miko’s dreams...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary
In 2017, holed up in a hotel room, feverish, despondent and aimless, Iain Maloney chances upon an article about Richard Henry Brunton, a Victorian civil engineer unknown in his Scottish homeland but considered ‘The Father of Japanese Lighthouses’ in...
- 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...
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