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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...

The Office of Gardens and Ponds

The Office of Gardens and Ponds
  • Author(s): Didier Decoin
  • Location(s): Honshu, Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the Kusagawa river. Who now will carry the precious cargo of carp to the Imperial Palace and preserve the crucial...

One Month in Tohoku: An Englishwoman’s Memoir on Life after the Japanese Tsunami

One Month in Tohoku: An Englishwoman’s Memoir on Life after the Japanese Tsunami
  • Author(s): Caroline Pover
  • Location(s): Japan, Tōhoku
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2011

On March 11, 2011, one of the biggest earthquakes in history occurred off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a deadly tsunami that destroyed much of the Tohoku coastline. Driven by a desire to help the people of Tohoku,...

Up From the Sea

Up From the Sea
  • Author(s): Leza Lowitz
  • Location(s): Tōhoku
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): March 11, 2011 Tsunami

Running through my ruined town, pack flapping winglike against my back. Plowing through blocks strewn with heaps of refrigeratorsblackboardsbicyclestaxis bustedpianosshelvedesksstairs allmixedtogether in a marshland grave. In March 2011, a massive tsunami devastates Japan. Kai, a biracial teen from a...

Point Zero

Point Zero
  • Author(s): Seicho Matsumoto, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
  • 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...

Remote Control

Remote Control
  • Author(s): Kotaro Isaka
  • Location(s): Sendai
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Masaharu Aoyagi is a driver for a delivery company in the city of Sendai in northern Japan. Two years ago he had achieved brief notoriety for rescuing a movie actress from a robbery attempt while making a delivery to...

The Kizuna Coast

The Kizuna Coast
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Tōhoku, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2011

When a devastating earthquake rocks Japan’s northeast coast, a tsunami follows and Rei Shimura is drawn into her most rugged adventure yet. The mystery begins with an SOS from Rei’s friend, the antiques dealer, Yasushi Ishida, who’s trapped among...

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