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Naked As The Day: A Tokyo Novel
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A young man finds himself in ragingly cosmopolitan Tokyo, haunted by memories of the past, facing an uncertain future. When a typical twenty-something year old English teacher in Japan develops severe physical and psychological aversions to his daily routine...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
These six stories are all inspired by Tokyo, a magical place that writer Wendy Nelson Tokunaga has observed both first-hand and from afar. A Tokyo teenager obsessed with becoming an idol singer despite her mother’s trepidations. An American bar...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1959 - 1989
In this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy. When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty...