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What’s Left of Me is Yours

What’s Left of Me is Yours
  • Author(s): Stephanie Scott
  • Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction

In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the wakaresaseya (literally “breaker-upper”), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent,...

Buddhaland Brooklyn

Buddhaland Brooklyn
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As he approaches his fortieth birthday, the introverted monk Seido Oda is ordered by his superior to leave behind his peaceful, quiet refuge in the remote mountains of Japan and set up a temple in Brooklyn’s Little Calabria. There...

The Heat of the Sun

The Heat of the Sun
  • Author(s): David Rain
  • Location(s): Mexico, Nagasaki, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An exuberant debut that sweeps across the twentieth century—beginning where one world-famous love story left off to introduce us to another With Sophie Tucker belting from his hand-crank phonograph and a circle of boarding-school admirers laughing uproariously around him,...

The Cat and The City

The Cat and The City
  • Author(s): Nick Bradley
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Tokyo – one of the world’s largest megacities – a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in...

The Cherry Blossom Murder

The Cherry Blossom Murder
  • Author(s): Fran Pickering
  • Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind the scenes a killer is lurking… When Tokyo-based Londoner Josie finds a body under the cherry blossom, she sets out to track down the killer. But she finds that everyone has a secret and no one can be...

Tune In Tokyo

Tune In Tokyo
  • Author(s): Tim Anderson
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan, “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker...

A Geek in Japan

A Geek in Japan
  • Author(s): Hector Garcia
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

With photos this book provides complete and accurate descriptions of varioius topics from the ancient traditions to the modern popular culture, and plenty of tips for travelers

A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being
  • Author(s): Ruth Ozeki
  • Location(s): Canada, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

One day, about a year after the Japanese tsunami, frustrated author Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the beach near her island home off Canada’s west coast. Subsequent inspection reveals that it contains a diary written...

Claws of the Cat

Claws of the Cat
  • Author(s): Susan Spann
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

When a samurai is brutally murdered in a Kyoto teahouse, master ninja Hiro has no desire to get involved. But the beautiful entertainer accused of the crime enlists the help of Father Mateo, the Portuguese Jesuit priest who Hiro...

Emperor of The Eight Islands

Emperor of The Eight Islands
  • Author(s): Lian Hearn
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval

An ambitious warlord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his younger son to surrender his wife to his older brother. A mysterious woman seeks five fathers for her children. A powerful priest...

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