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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alex thought running away would make everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he’s made and the people he’s hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex. The bright lights and dark corners...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2 to present
The Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We’ve all fallen in love with one or another of Japan’s pop-culture creations, from the techy to the wild to the super-kawaii. But as Japanese-media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Current
A girl struggling to fit in. A homeless kitten. An unexpected job offer in an unfamiliar country that changes everything. CJ had a long history of escaping places and people she wasn’t fond of. But for the sake of...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Iriomote Island
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present Day
Holly Blain wants to cover real news. The entertainment beat — pop stars and teen trends — was not why she moved to Tokyo. When she meets Inspector Tetsu Tanaka, head of Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police’s Gaikoku-jin unit, it might...
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s -1960s
In this evocative and thrilling epic novel, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan’s New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The author spent a year in Japan in search of contemplation. Instead he found a land of contradictions, where the monks spent their evenings watching game shows. It was through his relationship with Sachiko, a Japanese lady who combined...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Current
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER When Gilbert Silvester wakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees – immediately, irrationally, inexplicably – for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twenty-seven-year-old Detective Reiko Himekawa has an impressive ability to solve crimes. When a gruesomely slaughtered body wrapped in plastic is discovered, Reiko soon uncovers eleven other murders with a similar ‘signature’ and a reference to something called ‘strawberry night’,...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 11th Century
In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around her. Murasaki sees everything, the Emperor and Empress,...