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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...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): mid 200s onwards
A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): 1994
Intertwining elements of suspense and magical realism, award-winning literary debut RAINBIRDS opens with a murder and shines a spotlight on life in fictional small-town Japan. Ren Ishida is nearly done with graduate school when he receives news of his...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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 Courtesan and the Samurai: The Shogun Quartet #3
- 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...
- 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...
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