Cultural Region/Japanese

  • Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World

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    Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World is a celebration of the beauty of the scenes and backgrounds in anime and manga. This unusual book turns the spotlight exclusively on the scenes and background il

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    • Series: Scenes
    • Author: International, Pie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: February 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 4756249582
    • Language: English
  • Sony

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    Named one of the best business books of the year (by Fortune and Newsweek), SONY is the “intimate biography of one of the world’s leading electronics giants” (San Francisco Chronicle) as well as one o

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    • Author: Nathan, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 348
    • Publish Date: April 05 2001
    • ISBN10: 0618126945
    • Language: English
  • Osamu Dazai’s the Setting Sun: The Manga Edition

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    A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & manga for the first time!

    This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai’s classic novel, often considered hi

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  • Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods

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    This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist’s warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir.

    Florent Chavouet,

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    • Author: Chavouet, Florent
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 10 2011
    • ISBN10: 4805311371
    • Language: English
  • The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime

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    This graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka–Japan’s “God of Manga”–looks at one of the twentieth century’s great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecd

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    • Author: Ban, Toshio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 928
    • Publish Date: July 19 2016
    • ISBN10: 1611720257
    • Language: English
  • The Art of Sushi

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    Fly to Japan and come discover all there is to know about sushi. After revealing the secrets of chocolate to us, Franckie Alarcon offers a gourmet panorama of this exceptional dish that has conquered … [more below]

    • Author: Alarcon, Franckie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: December 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 1681122855
    • Language: English
  • Rashomon and Other Stories

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    “Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surf[more below]

    • Series: Tuttle Classics
    • Author: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: August 21 2018
    • ISBN10: 480531463X
    • Language: English
  • Silence

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    Shusaku Endo’s New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Dr

    • Series: Picador Classics
    • Author: Endo, Shusaku
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 10, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1250082277
    • Language: English
  • The Heron Catchers

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    2023 American Writing Awards Finalist 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist

    Joiner’s second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery a

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    • Author: Joiner, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: November 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1611720818
    • Language: English
  • The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation of Lady Murasaki’s Masterpiece with a New Foreword by Dennis Washburn

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    “What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itse[more below]

    • Series: Tuttle Classics
    • Author: Shikibu, Murasaki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1184
    • Publish Date: March 10 2010
    • ISBN10: 4805310812
    • Language: English
  • Under the Midnight Sun

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    From the acclaimed international bestseller Keigo Higashino (The Devotion of Suspect X) comes a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment. This is the compelling story

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    • Author: Higashino, Keigo
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: November 08 2016
    • ISBN10: 125010579X
    • Language: English
  • Botchan

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    One of Japan’s most treasured novels–new to Penguin Classics

    A hilarious tale about a young man’s rebellion against “the system” in a country school, Natsume Soseki’s Botchan has enjoyed a timeless p

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Soseki, Natsume
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 014139188X
    • Language: English
  • Shipwrecks

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    Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distill salt to sell to neighboring… [more below]

    • Series: Harvest Book
    • Author: Yoshimura, Akira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: February 15 2000
    • ISBN10: 0156008351
    • Language: English
  • Marshland

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    Otohiko Kaga’s Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic livin

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    • Series: Japanese Literature
    • Author: Kaga, Otohiko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 960
    • Publish Date: June 18 2024
    • ISBN10: 1628974044
    • Language: English
  • Uncovering Japanese Mythology

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    Are you interested in discovering the rich world of Japanese myth and folklore? Have you always wanted to know more about the history of Japan, and the gods and goddesses, creatures, and myths that fo… [more below]

    • Author: Russo, Lucas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 206
    • Publish Date: March 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1737117371
    • Language: English
  • Kusamakura

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    A stunning new English translation–the first in more than forty years–of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction

    Natsume Soseki’s Kusamakura–meaning “grass pillow”–follows its namel

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Soseki, Natsume
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: January 29 2008
    • ISBN10: 0143105191
    • Language: English
  • Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day

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    Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing transl… [more below]

    • Author: Keene, Donald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: January 31 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802150950
    • Language: English
  • First Snow on Fuji

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    The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms … [more below]

    • Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 244
    • Publish Date: October 12 2000
    • ISBN10: 1582431051
    • Language: English
  • Point Zero

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    “A master crime writer…Seichō Matsumoto’s thrillers dissect Japanese society.”–The New York Times. A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution caterin[more below]

    • Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: March 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 191339493X
    • Language: English
  • Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel: R.H. Blyth’s Life of Zen and Haiku, Bridging East and West

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    Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring!

    An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place.

    “In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) bi

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    • Author: Spence, Alan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0804856354
    • Language: English
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