Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because...
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Author:Sledge, E. B.Summary:A personal account of the vitality and bravery of the U.S. Marines at the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
- Author:Roscoe, BruceSummary:
Windows on Japan is a deeply insightful commentary that alternates chapters of physical travel with travel through perception about Japan, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that perplexes as much as it...
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors...
- Author:Kempton, BethSummary:
This is the definitive guide that teaches you how to use the Japanese concept of wabi sabi to reshape every area of your life and find happiness right where you are. Fed up with the exhausting challenges of our fast-paced, consumption-...
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Author:Murphy, PaulSummary:"Whether the crimes are lurid, shocking, or downright sad, Murphy provides an unflinching look into sides of Japan that we don't usually see." ,Brian Ashcraft, journalist and author of Arcade Mania! and Japanese Tattoos
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Author:Dunic, LeanneSummary:In To Love the Coming End, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and 'the curse of 11' reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and...
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Having grown up at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, and having moved six times in the last eight years, Bernadette "Bernie" Root and her five siblings are quintessential military brats. It's 1968, and eighteen-year-old Bernie is returning...
- Author:Li, MirokSummary:
As the son of a Korean family of substance the author of this autobiographical sketch grew up, in the early years of the century, among unsettling influences from east and west. Europe, known as "West of the Ocean," supplied...
- Author:Abe, KoboSummary:
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada...
- Author:Steinman, LouiseSummary:
Among her late parents' belongings, Steinman discovers a rusty ammo box holding almost five hundred letters written by her father during his service in World War II. It also contains a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu....
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Author:Matsumoto, DiannaSummary:Where can we go from God's presence? He is everywhere; He knows everything. His fingerprints are throughout the universe—each galaxy, each planet, and each individual are all designed by Him with uniqueness and purpose. In His written...
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Author:Honda, TetsuyaSummary:When a body is discovered near a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies. But while Reiko is hunting the killer, the...
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Author:Endo, ShusakuSummary:Set in a Japanese hospital during the last days of World War II, the story centers on the medical staff who offer to assist in a series of vivisections—experimental operations on live U.S. prisoners of war. The Sea and Poison won the...
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Author:Higashida, NaokiSummary:Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us...
- Author:Kaneko, FumikoSummary:
Defiant to the end (she hanged herself in prison on July 23, 1926), Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her, the family that abused and neglected her, and the imperial system that drove her to...
- Author:Shibutani, MaiaSummary:
From two-time Olympic bronze medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani comes a fun-filled, fast-paced middle-grade mystery set at the Tokyo Olympics.
Andy and Mika are going to Tokyo!
The Kudo Kids have never been to Japan...
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Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage-and her husband's sanity-in postwar Japan in this novel by "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark). When Jerome Talbot's brilliant career as an atomic physicist leads him...
- Author:Hodge, SusieSummary:
See the world through Hokusai's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming...
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