Japan
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Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJapan is arguably today’s most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products–from animated m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goto-Jones, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199235694
- Language: English
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Newcomer: A Mystery
$25.00 Add to cartInternational bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender–Newcomer–as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a perplexing murder.
A woman is found m- Series: Kyoichiro Kaga #2
- Author: Higashino, Keigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250235405
- Language: English
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The Aosawa Murders
$14.95 Read moreSelected by NYT as one of MOST NOTABLE BOOKS of 2020.
On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 peo
- Author: Onda, Riku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1912242249
- Language: English
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The Sound of Silence
$18.99 Add to cart“Do you have a favorite sound?” little Yoshio asks. The musician answers, “The most beautiful sound is the sound of ma, of silence.”
But Yoshio lives in Tokyo, Japan: a giant, noisy, busy city. He hear… [more below]- Author: Goldsaito, Katrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0316203378
- Language: English
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The Tale of the Heike
$32.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic
The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad–a moving depiction of the late t- Author: Tyler, Royall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107267
- Language: English
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The Girl with the Sanpaku Eyes, Volume 1
$15.95 Read moreAmane Mizuno is struggling with her social life. To her friends and family, she’s a shy, diligent girl. But to her classmates, her face screams intense, mean and maybe stand-offish. So when Amane fall… [more below]
- Series: Sanpaku Eyes
- Author: Sorato, Shunsuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1634429583
- Language: English
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The Way of the Samurai
$12.99 Add to cartA luxurious hardback edition of the classic work The Way of the Samurai, presented with beautiful gold embossing and gilded page edges.
To many people, the word samurai conjures images of menacing ma- Series: Arcturus Ornate Classics #8
- Author: Nitobe, Inazo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 15 2021
- ISBN10: 139880875X
- Language: English
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Wabi Sabi
$19.99 Add to cartThe award-winning and New York Times bestselling book about a cat named Wabi Sabi who searches for the meaning of her name
Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto, Japan, had never thought much about her na- Author: Reibstein, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316118257
- Language: English
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The Taiheiki: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan
$24.99 Add to cartAn epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval Japan
This celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: McCullough, Helen Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: March 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0804835381
- Language: English
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Oishinbo: Vegetables, Vol. 5: a la Carte
$12.99 Read moreThe best selling and most beloved food manga of all time!
As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the Tōzai News have commissioned the creation of the “Ultimate M- Series: Oishinbo: a la Carte #5
- Author: Hanasaki, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1421521431
- Language: English
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Oishinbo: The Joy of Rice, Vol. 6: a la Carte
$12.99 Add to cartThe best selling and most beloved food manga of all time!
As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the Tōzai News have commissioned the creation of the “Ultimate M- Series: Oishinbo: a la Carte #6
- Author: Hanasaki, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 17 2009
- ISBN10: 142152144X
- Language: English
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
$14.00 Add to cartBasho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine ‘karumi’, or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of onene… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Basho, Matsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: January 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140444599
- Language: English
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato
$22.95 Add to cartA young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Mitsuru, Yoshida
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1557505446
- Language: English
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Solo Dance
$19.99 Add to cartA powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan, from the most important queer voice of East Asia’s millennial generation.
Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from
- Author: Kotomi, Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1642861146
- Language: English
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Our Colors
$32.50 Add to cartA mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the Eisner Award-winning breakout hit My Brother’s Husband
Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Tagame, Gengoroh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1524748560
- Language: English
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All of Us Strangers [Movie Tie-In]
$18.99 Add to cartNow a Major Motion Picture starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell.
A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they d
- Author: Yamada, Taichi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063411520
- Language: English
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Samurai: An Illustrated History
$34.95 Add to cartSamurai: An Illustrated History brings the violent, tumultuous, and, at the same time, elegant world of the medieval Japanese samurai to life.
This Japanese history book traces the story of a unique h- Author: Kure, Mitsuo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0804832870
- Language: English
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Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji, Volume 1
$21.95 Read more“If the contestants in The Hunger Games had been forced to kill each other by playing rock-paper-scissors instead of with bows and arrows, they might have earned a place at the gaming tables of (Kaiji
- Series: Kaiji
- Author: Fukumoto, Nobuyuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1634429249
- Language: English
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Blade of the Immortal Deluxe Volume 6
$49.99 Add to cartOver 800 pages of gripping samurai action and tension! With Hiroaki Samura’s titanic tale hitting its midpoint, Rin begins to discover her skills as a warrior and strategist, as she makes new allies a… [more below]
- Author: Samura, Hiroaki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1506726577
- Language: English
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At War with the Wind: The Epic Struggle with Japan’s World War II Suicide Bombers
$19.95 Read moreDrawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to … [more below]
- Author: Sears, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542659
- Language: English
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