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- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the wakaresaseya (literally “breaker-upper”), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent,...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1980s
The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly’s Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Boston, Oahu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Diana is young and uneasy in a new relationship when she leaves America and moves halfway around the world to Tokyo seeking adventure. In Japan she takes a job as a nanny to two-year-old Yuki Yoshimura and sets about...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s tough to keep cool when the heat is on Japanese-American Rei Shimura finally has a life to be proud of in Tokyo: running her own antiques business and living with her Scottish lawyer boyfreind. But when Rei overpays...
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