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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
‘It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.’ In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast’s wind and cold,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1949/1964/1988
The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1933 forwards
As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Tokyo-ing is a masterful tour de force of a book, combining three short fast-paced novellas into a compassionate and profound look at life and culture in contemporary Japan. Though author Eric Madeen has taken on serious matters — karoshi...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 21st century
Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. It’s about a young person trying to work out who they are, and...
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1995
In spite of the perpetrators’ intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that...
Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki,...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Culture
- Era(s): N/A
Wabi sabi (“wah-bi sah-bi”) is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection, appreciate simplicity and accept the transient nature of all things. With roots in zen and the way of tea, the...
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it. In this uplifting book, we meet five of Sayuri’s customers, each at a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1980s
The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly’s Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to...
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