Japan
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$32.95 Add to cartSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520403886
- Language: English
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$45.00 Add to cartSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520389557
- Language: English
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The Art of the Samurai: Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure
$24.95 Add to cartThe way of the samurai is found in death. These words, written 300 years ago by the samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo, offer a seemingly grim introduction to a practice and philosophy that was in fact anythi… [more below]
- Author: Tsunetomo, Yamamoto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1627951288
- Language: English
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Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
$21.99 Add to cartSeven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, lique
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074604
- Language: English
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Takaoka’s Travels
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the Yomiuri Prize.
Winner of the 2024-2025 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
Recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Awa
- Author: Shibusawa, Tatsuhiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988688709
- Language: English
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Be More Japan
$25.00 Add to cartBe More Japan is a celebration of all things Japanese. You can take a look through popular sights and pick and choose what interests you to plan your perfect trip. Or take a trip through everything to… [more below]
- Author: Dk Travel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0744095085
- Language: English
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Mina’s Matchbox
$28.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an aff… [more below]
- Author: Ogawa, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0593316088
- Language: English
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
$17.99 Add to cartIn this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how
- Author: Yagisawa, Satoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0063278715
- Language: English
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A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court
$32.99 Add to cartAn incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England.
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men–led by a- Author: Lockley, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1335016716
- Language: English
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Tattoo: The Iconography of Japan
$39.99 Add to cartIn this book, the beauty and design of Japanese tattoos are explored through ukiyo-e prints and explained in detailed bilingual Japanese and English text.
In recent years, the number of ukiyo-e tattoo
- Author: Hamada, Nobuyoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 4756258603
- Language: English
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Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
$37.50 Add to cartA groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day
The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop cul- Author: Exner, Eike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300280947
- Language: English
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
$18.00 Add to cartYoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.
He is a brilliant math prof- Author: Ogawa, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250375975
- Language: English
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Someone to Watch Over You
$16.95 Add to cartAn unsettling, poignant debut novella about unusual connections fostered by the covid pandemic, perfect for fans of sharp literary fiction that reflects and confronts our world
It’s early 2020, and wi- Series: Japanese Novellas
- Author: Kimura, Kumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1805330055
- Language: English
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Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy
$36.95 Add to cartOn October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy… [more below]
- Author: Henry, Chas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126457
- Language: English
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The Setting Sun: A New Translation
$14.99 Add to cart“Dazai’s best novel […] focusing on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior” –The New York Times
A completely new translation of one of Osamu Dazai’s best-love- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 4805318090
- Language: English
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Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan
$18.99 Add to cart“Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades–he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball … [more below]
- Author: Whiting, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317981
- Language: English
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Hunchback
$22.00 Read moreA bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life–“not only a major achievement in disabi… [more below]
- Author: Ichikawa, Saou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593734718
- Language: English
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Vanishing World
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couple
- Author: Murata, Sayaka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164668
- Language: English
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Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
$29.99 Add to cartWith the development of the B-29 “Superfortress” in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan experien
- Author: Overy, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105305
- Language: English
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Voices of the Fallen Heroes: And Other Stories
$17.00 Add to cartA new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s–his final decade–Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique gli… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 059380435X
- Language: English
