Ethnic Orientation/Japanese
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Shipwrecks
$13.95 Add to cartIsaku 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
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The Changeling
$17.00 Add to cartOe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro sends Kogito a trunk of ta… [more below]
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 080214523X
- Language: English
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Somersault
$18.00 Add to cartKenzaburo Oe is internationally recognized as one of the world’s finest writers, and his achievements have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Somersault, the first new novel he published since w… [more below]
- Series: OE, Kenzaburo
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0802140459
- Language: English
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Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day
$18.00 Add to cartModern 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
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Strawberry Yellow: A Mas Arai Mystery
$15.00 Add to cartCurmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective Mas Arai is back in this fifth in the Edgar Award-winning series. Naomi Hirahara has created a memorable protagonist unlike any other: a
- Series: Mas Arai Mysteries #5
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1938849027
- Language: English
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China Dolls
$27.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant … [more below]- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 081299289X
- Language: English
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Death by Water
$16.00 Read moreNobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and li… [more below]
- Author: OE, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125530
- Language: English
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Hardboiled & Hard Luck
$17.00 Read moreIn cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller s… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142621
- Language: English
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Forbidden Colors
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of Japan’s greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale. … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0375705163
- Language: English
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The Dancing Girl of Izu: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cartA collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature.
Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called “palm-of-th- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 1998
- ISBN10: 1887178945
- Language: English
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A Quiet Life
$16.00 Add to cartA Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; h… [more below]
- Series: OE, Kenzaburo
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0802135463
- Language: English
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A Thousand Steps Into Night
$15.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award
From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a fantasy perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli. When a girl who’s never longed for adventure is hit with a
- Author: Chee, Traci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063306670
- Language: English
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Japanese Farm Food
$40.00 Add to cartJapanese Farm Food, now available in paperback, offers a unique look into life on a Japanese farm through 165 simple, clear-flavored recipes along with personal stories and over 350 stunning photograp… [more below]
- Author: Hachisu, Nancy Singleton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1524868701
- Language: English
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Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai
$8.99 Add to cartFans of Lisa Greenwald and Wendy Mass are sure to fall head-over-heels for this funny, sweet story of crushes, competition, and the confusing reality of middle school.
“Heartbreak is for suckers.”
When
- Author: Florence, Debbi Michiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 133867157X
- Language: English
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The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
$19.99 Add to cart“One of Ten Best History Books of 2021.” –Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told “tale that ul… [more below]
- Author: Pearson, Bradford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107049
- Language: English
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Patience, Miyuki: (Intergenerational Picture Book Ages 5-8 Teaches Life Lessons of Learning How to Wait, Japanese Art and Scenery)
$18.95 Add to cart“The illustrations in some picture books are so devouringly gorgeous… It’s a beauty.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Galliez’s lively, descriptive text pairs nicely with Ratanavanh’s bright, graphic illu- Author: Galliez, Roxane Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1616898437
- Language: English
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A Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Tea: Selecting and Brewing the Perfect Cup of Sencha, Matcha, and Other Japanese Teas
$14.99 Add to cartDo you know the difference between a bancha and a hojicha? How to brew the perfect matcha? With this book you will
Japanese tea expert Per Oscar Brekell is one of the few foreigners to complete the d- Author: Brekell, Per Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316381
- Language: English
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It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
$19.99 Add to cart* 4 Starred Reviews *
* An Indie Next List Pick *
“Playful, bold, and, much like its subject, full of grace.” –Jillian Tamaki, Caldecott Honor winner for This One Summer
“It Began with a Page tells Gy
- Author: Maclear, Kyo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0062447629
- Language: English
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Sumo Joe
$20.95 Read moreIn this sweet and funny story, Sumo Joe and his friends enjoy pretending to be sumo wrestlers. But when his little sister wants to join their boy-only game, what should Sumo Joe do?
On Saturday morning
- Author: Wenjen, Mia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1620148021
- Language: English
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Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family, Volume 3
$12.95 Add to cartFor most of the first two volumes of this series, Emiya has been in the kitchen. Now his rivals and friends decide to step up to the stove and start cooking.
What is on the menu this volume:
- Onigiri s
- Series: Fate/
- Author: Taa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1634429508
- Language: English
