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- 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...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Early 1700s
Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichirō has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The author spent a year in Japan in search of contemplation. Instead he found a land of contradictions, where the monks spent their evenings watching game shows. It was through his relationship with Sachiko, a Japanese lady who combined...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER When Gilbert Silvester wakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees – immediately, irrationally, inexplicably – for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers...
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
- Location(s): Mongolia, Shanghai, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel’s sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives...
- Location(s): Japan, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1600s
Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan what happens when fear turns to love? England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
The fortunes of a family stand or fall by the use of the proper principles of the Tea Ceremony, a story as intricate as the tea ceremony itself.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Location(s): Dejima
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Her troubled female protagonist in Tokyo is Grey, haunting the thronging streets of Tokyo in search of an elusive piece of film recording the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. But did the film ever exist? The past is a...
- Location(s): Kyoto, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Haruka and Takashi are devoted to shopping and going out in Tokyo. She loves her Louis Vuitton handbags, Hermès scarves and Louboutin shoes. He enjoys eating out and looking through the department stores in Ginza and Shibuya. Together they...
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