World Literature - Japan
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Someone to Cook for
$18.00 Add to cartA light, humorous, amiably peopled, and tender novel about found families, the people who shape our lives, and the complexities of non-traditional family ties.
Yuko has had four different surna
- Author: Seo, Maiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661931
- Language: English
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Justice with a Smile
$14.99 Read moreA powerful novel of self-discovery from the author of No Longer Human–now available in English!
Young Susumu is at a turning point. Should he continue his education or chase his dream of becoming Jap- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 4805318724
- Language: English
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Good-Bye
$17.95 Read moreHere to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai’s legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English.
Beginning with “Memories” (w
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240495
- Language: English
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Postcards from Japan: A Novel
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the co-author of the international bestsellers Ikigai and The Ikigai Journey comes a tender, thought-provoking novel of love, mystery, and cultural discovery.
“Could a message from the past rewri- Author: Miralles, Francesc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 4805319976
- Language: English
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Rip It Up
$19.95 Add to cartThe Akutagawa prize-winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan’s most outlandish and inventive author.
Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida’s award-winning novel, an undertaking ove- Series: Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions
- Author: Machida, Kou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1965874142
- Language: English
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The Neverending Book
$27.99 Add to cartAn aged, near-blind, book-loving king sends two of his subjects out into the world to learn about unusual and magical books. One year later, they return to tell the whimsical, tender, and touching sto
- Author: Matayoshi, Naoki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 132412380X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant: Volume I
$34.99 Add to cartOriginally crafted in 1800s Edo period Japan, this precursor to manga is an honored fantasy adventure that has inspired readers for generations. Immerse yourself in this captivating story of bravery,
- Author: Danielsen, Andreas Kronborg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1965492061
- Language: English
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Los Secretos de la Papeler?a Shihodo / Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationaty Shop
$21.95 Add to cartUn tributo exquisito al arte de la caligraf?a y el poder de la correspondencia. Cinco historias alrededor de una encantadora papeler?a en Tokio.
Escondida en las calles del elegante barrio de Ginza, en… [more below]- Author: Ueda, Kenji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 841034002X
- Language: Spanish
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When the Museum Is Closed
$18.95 Add to cartA quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a Void
Rika Horauchi’s new part-time- Author: Yagi, Emi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1593768273
- Language: English
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The Luminous Fairies and Mothra
$19.95 Add to cartThe original story that hatched Mothra, one of the most beloved monsters in the “kaijuverse”–available in English for the first time
Mystical and benevolent, the colossal lepidopteran Mothra has bee- Author: Fukunaga, Takehiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1517920019
- Language: English
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The Third Love
$27.00 Add to cartA time-bending story of love, desire, and destiny that sways between Japan’s past and its present–from a courtesan of Yoshiwara in Edo to a serving lady of the Heian period to a wife and mother in th… [more below]
- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1593768052
- Language: English
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Days at the Torunka Caf?
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo caf? where customers find unexpected connection and experience ever
- Author: Yagisawa, Satoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063445859
- Language: English
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The Woman Dies
$18.00 Add to cartTales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are
In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny
- Author: Matsuda, Aoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889661337
- Language: English
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Archipelago of the Sun
$16.95 Add to cartThe Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of movin… [more below]
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239799
- Language: English
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No One Knows
$15.95 Add to cartNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239330
- Language: English
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The Premonition
$16.95 Add to cartThe internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitabl… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096647
- Language: English
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Takaoka’s Travels
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the Yomiuri Prize.
Winner of the 2024-2025 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
Recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Awa
- Author: Shibusawa, Tatsuhiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988688709
- Language: English
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
$17.99 Add to cartIn this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how
- Author: Yagisawa, Satoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0063278715
- Language: English
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Someone to Watch Over You
$16.95 Add to cartAn unsettling, poignant debut novella about unusual connections fostered by the covid pandemic, perfect for fans of sharp literary fiction that reflects and confronts our world
It’s early 2020, and wi- Series: Japanese Novellas
- Author: Kimura, Kumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1805330055
- Language: English
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The Setting Sun: A New Translation
$14.99 Add to cart“Dazai’s best novel […] focusing on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior” –The New York Times
A completely new translation of one of Osamu Dazai’s best-love- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 4805318090
- Language: English
