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The Lake

The Lake
  • Author(s): Banana Yoshimoto
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A young woman moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to overcome her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. But she spends her time staring out of the window, only to realise that...

Tokyo Cancelled

Tokyo Cancelled
  • Author(s): Rana Dasgupta
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Thirteen short stories told by passengers stranded for the night at Tokyo airport. A tenuous link to Tokyo, but neverthless a collection of fairytales that are interesting.

A Death in Tokyo

A Death in Tokyo
  • Author(s): Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray (translator)
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast – a kirin. One evening a man staggers...

A Perfect Day to be Alone

A Perfect Day to be Alone
  • Author(s): Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)
  • 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...

A Thing of the Moment

A Thing of the Moment
  • Author(s): Bruno Noble
  • Location(s): Tokyo, London, Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s to 1990s

A novel written from the points of view of three women with the subject, besides telling the stories of how they grow up and meet, the nature of the self, or of identity. It takes its title from Straw...

After Dark

After Dark
  • Author(s): Haruki Murakami
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel,...

All The Lovers In The Night

All The Lovers In The Night
  • Author(s): Mieko Kawakami
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than Hijiri, someone she works with. When she sees her reflection, she’s confronted with a...

Bird Life

Bird Life
  • Author(s): Anna Small
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another’s lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to...

Breasts and Eggs

Breasts and Eggs
  • Author(s): Mieko Kawakami
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to...

Butter

Butter
  • Author(s): Asako Yuzuki
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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 has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses...

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