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Roppongi

Roppongi
  • Author(s): Nick Vasey
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Roppongi is an ‘adventure-travel-fiction’ story, exploring the crazy and often dangerous world which is living and working as a foreigner in the Roppongi nightlife industry of Tokyo, Japan. The novel follows the (mis)adventures of its travel-addicted protagonist Zack, and...

Ryokan: Japan’s Finest Traditional Inns

Ryokan: Japan’s Finest Traditional Inns
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Heilman Brooke
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

Natural spring bathing in Japan is a celebration, the lovely pause in hectic lives yearning for moments of tranquillity. The hushed intimacy of rooms behind sliding paper doors, the sweet and the tangy of Japanese fruits, vegetables and seafood,...

Sayonara Bar

Sayonara Bar
  • Author(s): Susan Barker
  • Location(s): Osaka
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Mary, a blond graduate from England, has drifted into a job in a hostess lounge in Osaka. She and other ?economy geishas? are employed by the enigmatic Mama san to spend their evenings flirting with rich Japanese salarymen, playing...

Shogun

Shogun
  • Author(s): James Clavell
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1500s

A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition,...

Silk

Silk
  • Author(s): Alessandro Baricco
  • Location(s): France, Japan
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1861

The year is 1861. Herve Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for...

The Cat with Three Passports

The Cat with Three Passports
  • Author(s): C J Fentiman
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

A girl struggling to fit in. A homeless kitten. An unexpected job offer in an unfamiliar country that changes everything. CJ had a long history of escaping places and people she wasn’t fond of. But for the sake of...

The Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3

The Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3
  • Author(s): Lesley Downer
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 19th Century

1868. In Japan’s exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love … Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house...

The Devil of Nanking

The Devil of Nanking
  • Author(s): Mo Hayder
  • Location(s): Nanjing (Nanking), Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1937 and 1990

Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies...

The Earthquake Bird

The Earthquake Bird
  • Author(s): Susanna Jones
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Japan, The Earthquake Bird begins with an earth-tremor on its first page that echoes metaphorically through the book. Lucy is a young and insecure translator straining to survive in the bustling, impersonal city of Tokyo. She becomes...

The Gun

The Gun
  • Author(s): Fuminori Nakamura
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a night-time walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, besides which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him...

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