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- 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...
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): Kanazawa, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation, Mystery
- Era(s): 1958
Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to...
- 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...