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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
There are two common starting points for travelogues. One is a desire to pursue ancestral roots. The other is a drunken bet. Hokkaido Highway Blues is the latter. After too much saké, Canadian travel writer and English teacher Will...
- Location(s): Japan, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie receives a call one night from a friend at the SFPD: an entire family has been senselessly gunned down in the Japantown neighborhood of the bustling city. As an American born and raised...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Jill is reeling from a bad relationship, and she decides to depart for Japan for a fresh start. She falls in love with the culture, and Yusuke Yamashiro. Although she is American, they decide to marry and she soon...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO ABANDON YOUR COMFORT ZONE TO FIND THE PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG. Nineteen-year-old Erin is hoping that her visit to Japan with her best friend, Adam, will be life-changing. Fifteen years ago, Erin’s mother mysteriously vanished....
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Stuck. That’s how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels. Stuck with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms, which just might be the first...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 2011/2012
Royalties from the sale of this book will go to charities working towards the reconstruction of north-eastern Japan. 11th March 2011. An earthquake occurring off the north-eastern coast of Japan – magnitude 9.0, duration six minutes – unleashed a...
- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A different side of Japan is depicted by John Haylock, who has spent many years in the country and shows the reader a very different side in this novel. A man takes a trip to Kyoto after shipping his...
One Month in Tohoku: An Englishwoman’s Memoir on Life after the Japanese Tsunami
- Location(s): Japan, Tōhoku
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
On March 11, 2011, one of the biggest earthquakes in history occurred off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a deadly tsunami that destroyed much of the Tohoku coastline. Driven by a desire to help the people of Tohoku,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Four women work nights together at a bento box factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, and form a friendship based on their mutual desperation at the quality of their home lives. Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her...
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