Japan - Social life and customs
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
$16.00 Read moreIn this “exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s s… [more below]
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1101973463
- Language: English
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El Elefante Desaparece / The Elephant Vanishes
$14.95 Read moreUna maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos.
Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteri
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 6074217785
- Language: Spanish
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Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
$16.95 Read moreThe member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attach with the… [more below]
- Author: Mitford, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: March 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0486440621
- Language: English
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Your Passport to Japan
$31.32 Read moreWhat is it like to live in or visit Japan? What makes Japan’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of the Japanese people.
- Series: World Passport
- Author: Kim, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390151
- Language: English
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Talk to My Back
$29.95 Add to cartA celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga’s most important female artists.
“Now that we’ve woken from the dream, what are we going to do?” Chiharu thinks to herself,- Author: Murasaki, Yamada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1770465634
- Language: English
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Your Passport to Japan
$8.99 Add to cartWhat is it like to live in or visit Japan? What makes Japan’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of the Japanese people.
- Series: World Passport
- Author: Kim, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390100
- Language: English
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Japanese Traditions: Rice Cakes, Cherry Blossoms and Matsuri: A Year of Seasonal Japanese Festivities
$16.95 Add to cartPacked with colorful illustrations and fun facts about Japanese culture, celebrations, language and history, this multicultural children’s books will delight children and parents alike
A wonderful lo- Author: Broderick, Setsu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 10 2010
- ISBN10: 4805310898
- Language: English
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Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our
$18.00 Add to cartThese four novels display Oe’s passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambigu… [more below]
- Series: OE, Kenzaburo
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: October 13 1994
- ISBN10: 080215185X
- Language: English
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The Art of Sushi
$24.99 Add to cartFly 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
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Grotesque: A Thriller
$16.95 Add to cartLife at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kirino, Natsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1400096596
- Language: English
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Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day
$18.95 Add to cartIkigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as “your reason to get up in the morning.” Ikigai can be small moments: the morning air, a cup of coffee, a compliment. It can also be deep convicti
- Author: Mogi, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1615194754
- Language: English
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Geisha: A Life
$18.99 Add to cartNo woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story–until now.
“Many say I was the best geisha of my generation,” writes Mineko Iwasaki. “And- Author: Iwasaki, Mineko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0743444299
- Language: English
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Way of Salt: Sumo and the Culture of Japan
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Warren, Ash
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1890085235
- Language: English
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The Sound of Waves
$17.00 Add to cartA timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. – “A story that is both happy and a work of art…. Altogether a joyous and lovely thing.” —The New York Times
A young fisher… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 04 1994
- ISBN10: 0679752684
- Language: English
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Dance Dance Dance
$18.00 Add to cartDance Dance Dance–a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase–is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.
As Mura- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 31, 1995
- ISBN10: 0679753796
- Language: English
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Self-Portraits: Stories
$15.95 Add to cart“Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation’s obsolete arist
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0811232263
- Language: English
