Japan
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$24.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End
$23.00 Add to cartWhen the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers could not call his death a death, nor could they refer to him by his proper name. To do so would have exposed them to terrorism from the vig… [more below]
- Author: Field, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 09 1993
- ISBN10: 0679741895
- Language: English
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Passage to Tokyo
$17.99 Add to cart- Series: Ancestor Memories #2
- Author: Kuroki, Poppy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063410923
- Language: English
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The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen: The Heartwarming Japanese Cat Novel about Fate and the Healing Power of Food
$18.00 Add to cartFollow the seashell path along Tokyo Bay until you get to the Chibineko Kitchen, where a traditional Japanese meal can summon anyone you choose from your past, but only for as long as it continues to … [more below]
- Series: Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen
- Author: Takahashi, Yuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0143138626
- Language: English
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When the Museum Is Closed
$18.95 Add to cartA quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a Void
Rika Horauchi’s new part-time- Author: Yagi, Emi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1593768273
- Language: English
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Hot Chocolate on Thursday
$21.99 Add to cartAcross a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favorite ho… [more below]
- Author: Aoyama, Michiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1335001913
- Language: English
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Jackson Alone
$28.95 Add to cartFour Black Japanese gay men team up against a culture where discrimination is deep-seated and revenge is just a click away. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.
Nobod- Author: Ando, Jose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1641296364
- Language: English
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Pearl Harbor: Japan’s Greatest Disaster
$35.00 Read moreA detailed re-examination of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy that saw the USA enter World War II.
In this the first comprehensive treatment of Pearl Harbor since the early 1990s- Author: Stille, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1472865316
- Language: English
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In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball
$36.95 Add to cartBaseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it. To shed light on these difference… [more below]
- Author: Fitts, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244079
- Language: English
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Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition: Records of Ancient Matters (Revised and with a New Foreword)
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic story of Japan’s origins–now in a fully revised and reader-friendly edition.
The Kojiki is Japan’s oldest surviving text, chronicling the mythical creation of the Japanese islands, the or- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Yasumaro, O. No
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 4805318333
- Language: English
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The Luminous Fairies and Mothra
$19.95 Add to cartThe original story that hatched Mothra, one of the most beloved monsters in the “kaijuverse”–available in English for the first time
Mystical and benevolent, the colossal lepidopteran Mothra has bee- Author: Fukunaga, Takehiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1517920019
- Language: English
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Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: From the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
$39.99 Add to cartThe full set of 46 glorious prints of Mt Fuji by Japan’s most famous artist!
This beautiful Japanese-bound volume presents the complete set of prints Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, one of the most fa- Author: Scantamburlo, Elisabetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 4805319380
- Language: English
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Under the Midnight Sun
$22.00 Add to cartFrom 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- Author: Higashino, Keigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1250379822
- Language: English
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Te Receto Un Gato: El Bestseller Japon?s Que Ha Engatusado a Lectores En Todo El Mundo / We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
$17.95 Add to cartQui?n imaginar?a que la cura perfecta ronronea?
En un oscuro callej?n de Kioto se esconde la Cl?nica Kokoro, un lugar envuelto en misterio al que solo llegan quienes m?s lo necesitan. Su peculiar tra
- Author: Ishida, Syou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 6073928270
- Language: Spanish
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The Essential Akutagawa: Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan’s Master Storyteller
$16.99 Add to cart“Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible.” –Chris Power, The Guardian
Japan’s master storyteller Ryunosuke Akutagawa (- Author: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 480531799X
- Language: English
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Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan
$21.99 Read moreOriginally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author’s experiences in Japan over 30 years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his i… [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0141979747
- Language: English
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Hotel Iris
$18.00 Add to cart“[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected . . . but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender.” –Daniel Hahn, The Independent
From the award-winning autho- Author: Ogawa, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1250375959
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Japan
$28.95 Read moreFrommer’s books aren’t written by committee, by A.I., or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We use seasoned, locally-based journalists like Da
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: McElhinney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1628876530
- Language: English
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Tokyo Express
$18.00 Add to cartFrom “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the… [more below]
- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593979044
- Language: English
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Tokyo
$22.99 Add to cartFrom sleepy fishing village to samurai capital to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer takes readers through Tokyo’s rich history, revealing four centuries of transformation deeply woven in… [more below]
- Series: Ten Moments That Shaped
- Author: Siniawer, Eiko Maruko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1108965008
- Language: English
