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- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
‘One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of this or any year’ David Peace Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Magical Realism, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
How can you save your friend’s life if she doesn’t want to be rescued? In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Jane Takagi-Little, by trade a documentary filmmaker, by nature a truth seeker, is “racially half, ” Japanese and American, and, as she tells us, “neither here nor there…” Jane is sharp-edged, desperate for a job, and determined not to...
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...
Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy 2)
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
In occupied Tokyo a man arrives at a bank talking of a dysentery outbreak, which he has been sent to treat. He administers a potion, and they fall dead. He robs the bank and disappears. Nothing has ever happened...
- 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): Modern
One of Soseki’s most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving ‘real world’ of Tokyo, its women and university. In...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo – now known as Tokyo – and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change The daughter of...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator’s separation from her husband. The novel is full of light,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 18th century
47 Ronin is the unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. This set off a chain of events that...
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