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- 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): Short Stories, In Translation
- Era(s): early 20th century
A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon A writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of beatniks dance to modern jazz in the ruins...
- 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...
- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A cat a day keeps the doctor away … On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few – those...
- 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...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
One year of training in samurai school and Jack Fletcher is in real trouble . . . Not only is he struggling to prepare for the Circle of Three, an ancient ritual that tests a samurai’s courage, skill and...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Boston, Oahu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Diana is young and uneasy in a new relationship when she leaves America and moves halfway around the world to Tokyo seeking adventure. In Japan she takes a job as a nanny to two-year-old Yuki Yoshimura and sets about...
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