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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- Location(s): Chofu, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in...
- Location(s): British Columbia, Japan
- 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...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case...
- 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...
- Location(s): Jimbocho
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s...
- 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...
- Location(s): Japan, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1840s
A Japanese fishing vessel in 1841 sinks and its crew swims to a small unknown island to be rescued by a passing American ship. At the time, the Japanese borders were closed to all western nations so the Japanese...
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