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Four Seasons in Japan

Four Seasons in Japan
  • Author(s): Nick Bradley
  • Location(s): Hiroshima, Japan, Onomichi, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she’s in a relationship that’s run its course. That’s until she stumbles upon a mysterious...

Return to Hiroshima

Return to Hiroshima
  • Author(s): Bob Van Laerhoven
  • Location(s): Hiroshima
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. Fate brings a number of people together in Hiroshima in a confrontation with dramatic consequences. Xavier Douterloigne, the son of a Belgian diplomat, returns to the city, where he spent his...

Beautiful Shining People

Beautiful Shining People
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagano
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Future

This world is anything but ordinary, and it’s about to change forever… It’s our world, but decades into the future… An ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There...

Soul Lanterns

Soul Lanterns
  • Author(s): Kuzki Shaw
  • Location(s): Hiroshima
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1945

The haunting and poignant story of a how a young Japanese girl’s understanding of the historic and tragic bombing of Hiroshima is transformed by a memorial lantern-floating ceremony. Twelve-year-old Nozomi lives in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. She wasn’t...

The Ash Garden

The Ash Garden
  • Author(s): Dennis Bock
  • Location(s): Hiroshima
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR ENCOUNTERED ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB? This is the way Emiko Amai recalls August 6th, 1945 – the day she survived the Hiroshima bomb. Emiko was six years...

The Last Paper Crane

The Last Paper Crane
  • Author(s): Kerry Drewery, Natsko Seki (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Hiroshima
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945

A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what...

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