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- Location(s): Japan, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s to present day
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage secures her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community. However, Naoko has fallen for an American sailor and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned...
- Location(s): Yokosuka, Yokohama
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long washes up in midsummer near...
- Location(s): Australia, Manhattan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey’s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Like children everywhere, Miyuki’s imagination peaks at bedtime, when she remembers all the things she has to do before she can possibly go to bed: she needs to water the vegetables, gather snails, and prepare for the arrival of...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A hilarious and heartfelt novel perfect for fans of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Princess Diaries Izumi Tanaka has lived an uneventful seventeen years in her small town, keenly aware of all the ways in...
- 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...
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