Cultural Region/Japanese
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A Wild Sheep Chase
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestselling author–and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)–delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 037571894X
- Language: English
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Kensuke’s Kingdom
$8.99 Add to cartA spellbinding tale of survival and self-discovery from award-winning author Michael Morpurgo, who is poised for breakthrough U.S. success.
When Michael’s father loses his job, he buys a boat and convi… [more below]
- Author: Morpurgo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0439591813
- Language: English
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After Dark
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author–a gripping novel of late night encounters that’s “hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all … [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspen… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0307278735
- Language: English
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The Premonition
$24.00 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1640093710
- Language: English
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The Anime Chef Cookbook: 75 Iconic Dishes from Your Favorite Anime
$24.99 Add to cartBring your favorite anime foods to life with 75 recipes—from traditional Japanese favorites to inventive recreations—that are easy to make, fun, and delicious.
Food plays an important role in anime- Author: Estero, Nadine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1631068660
- Language: English
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I Am a Cat
$19.95 Add to cart“A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn’t have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn’t much good for anything except watching human beings in action…” —
- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Natsume, Soseki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 080483265X
- Language: English
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
$18.00 Add to cartLaura Imai Messina’s international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of p… [more below]
- Author: Imai Messina, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1419754319
- Language: English
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The Final Curtain: A Mystery
$29.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga’s own mother.
A decade ago, Tokyo Police Det- Series: Kyoichiro Kaga #4
- Author: Higashino, Keigo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250767520
- Language: English
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How Do You Live?
$17.95 Add to cartAs featured in the Oscar-nominated Hayao Miyazaki film The Boy and the Heron: the coming-of-age novel How Do You Live? is a Japanese classic that become a New York Times bestseller, now with an introd
- Author: Yoshino, Genzaburo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 1616209771
- Language: English
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Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California
$40.00 Add to cartA BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle
“I think this might be the most beautiful cookbook I have ever seen! Sylvan is not only an artist in the kit- Author: Brackett, Sylvan Mishima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1958417009
- Language: English
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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
$14.99 Add to cart“A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics wh
- Author: Hoffmann, Yoel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03, 2018
- ISBN10: 4805314435
- Language: English
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Grenade
$18.99 Add to cartHere it is The hugely anticipated follow-up to Gratz’s NYT bestselling, critically acclaimed phenomenon REFUGEE. This is another searing and heart-pounding look at kids making their way through war.
A… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1338245694
- Language: English
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Make It Japanese: Simple Recipes for Everyone: A Cookbook
$30.00 Add to cartLearn the building blocks of authentic Japanese home cooking with 85 satisfying, soulful, everyday recipes from the beloved BuzzFeed Tasty food personality
“Rie’s marvelous recipes taught me new thing- Author: McClenny, Rie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593236351
- Language: English
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All the Lovers in the Night
$17.95 Add to cartFINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A BEST BOOK OF 2022
Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit HubBestselling author
- Author: Kawakami, Mieko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 160945846X
- Language: English
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
$19.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all.
ONE OF- Series: Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Author: Kondo, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1607747308
- Language: English
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Kappa
$13.95 Add to cartThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed bea… [more below]
- Author: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0811232166
- Language: English
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I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived #8): Volume 8
$5.99 Add to cartThe disaster felt around the world . . .
Visiting his dad’s hometown in Japan four months after his father’s death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive… [more below]
- Series: I Survived #08
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0545459370
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Buffoonery
$14.95 Add to cartThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba–the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age–is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his f
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234541
- Language: English
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A Tale for the Time Being
$20.00 Add to cartA brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is- Author: Ozeki, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124870
- Language: English
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Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark
$26.95 Add to cartA deluxe volume of 16 traditional Nordic folk tales that is sure to impress any fan of cultural and mythological literature with impactful and stunning illustrations by contemporary artist Ulla Thynel… [more below]
- Series: Tales
- Author: Chronicle Books
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1452174474
- Language: English
