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- Location(s): Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagano
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Future
- Era(s): Future
This world is anything but ordinary, and it’s about to change forever… It’s our world, but decades into the future… An ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Inspired by the still unsolved murder of a Japanese family in 2000, Blue Light Yokohama is 2017’s most original and gripping crime debut . . . Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo’s homicide department, is...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Veteran Japan Times columnist Amy Chavez guides you through the complex culture of Japan through essays, cultural tips and useful Japanese phrases to make learning about Japan as fun as possible. Chavez tells you why you should go to...
- 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): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount...
- 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
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just...
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