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Yoshoku: Contemporary Japanese
One of the most intriguing traditions in Japan is that of adopting Western cuisine and altering it slightly to make it uniquely Japanese. This style of food called is called...
Days at the Torunka Cafe: A new cosy series from the bestselling
From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo cafe where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday...
Lost Japan
An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japan's landscape, culture, history and future Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty...
Lonely Planet Best of Japan
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Best of Japan is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what...
The End of Japan Inc.: And How the New Japan Will Look
In a book that boldly predicts "The Great Reckoning" for Japan, Christopher Wood points to economic and social upheaval on a staggering scale for our Asian competitor--and unprecedented opportunities for...
The Okinawa Way: How to Reverse Symptoms of Ageing in Four Weeks
The bestselling landmark diet book, revealing the secrets of the world's healthiest population There is nothing more universal than the desire to slow down the ageing process, to live a...
Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for
$100.00 AUD
While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been largely neglected. This is surprising insofar as this...
Flashlight
A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event...
The Changi Book
$40.00 AUD
The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it. In the tradition of The Anzac Book comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi...
Lonely Planet Eat Japan
The complete companion to Japanese culinary culture Whether it's rubbing your chopsticks together, handing money to a sushi chef or setting your foot directly on the floor when removing your...
The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter...
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005
Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches...
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That
On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to...
West Coast Support Group: Task Group 96.8, Korea 1950-1953
This illustrated portfolio is produced upon the 50th anniversary of cessation of hostilities and as a remembrance of the ships of Task Group 96.8. Through extensive research the author has...
In Japan the Crickets Cry: How could Steve Metcalf forgive the
Steve had suffered under the brutal regime of his Japanese guards. He and his classmates at Chefoo school in China - for the most part the children of missionaries -...
Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire
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Based on official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, a dramatic narrative unfolds, reflecting the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, kamikaze assaults,...
I Am a Cat: Volume One
The original Japanese Cat-Lit Classic. Now published in a new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a...
The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park
Brand new healing fiction from the 2.5-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking for is in the Library set in a suburban community block DISCOVER THE BRAND NEW NOVEL...
Diary of a Void
A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant Discover this...
Hunchback
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE- An extraordinary, thrilling novel about sex, disability and power LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa...
Pearl: A Graphic Novel
Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl who lives in Hawaii. When her great-grandmother falls ill, Amy travels to visit family in Hiroshima for the first time. But this is 1941....
Bones: Discovering the First Americans
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Bonesthe remains of ancient New World natives now lying in museums and university laboratories across the Americasare at the center of the scientific and cultural battles described in this provocative...
Ikigai: Simple Secrets to a Long and Happy Life
A new edition of the multi-million bestselling global phenomenon Ikigai for the personal development market AVAILABLE NOW- The Four-Way Path, a guide to how Indian spirituality holds the key to...
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Inspirational and heartwarming, this bestselling nominee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebration of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation. THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL The...
Tokyo Express
$24.99 AUD
A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
Japanese Swords and Armor: Masterpieces from Thirty of Japan's Most
The first book to present the amazing swords and armour belonging to the most famous Samurai in Japanese history! In Japanese Swords and Armor , Samurai sword expert Paul Martin...
Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan: With an Extensive Introduction and
Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan is one of the most influential books ever written on "the way of the warrior." A classic study of Japanese culture, the book outlines...
Book of Tea: Beauty, Simplicity and the Zen Aesthetic
Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the hysteria of colonization, this classic written by Okakura Kakuzo helped preserve the masterpieces of Japanese...
100 Japanese Gardens
100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished landscapes in less-visited parts of the country. A...
A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the
Created specifically for fans of Japanese 'cool culture,' A Geek in Japan is one of the most iconic, hip, and concise cultural guides available. Reinvented for the internet age, it...
The Art of the Japanese Sword: The Craft of Swordmaking and its
The Japanese sword, a unique work of art in steel, can be appreciated from a number of viewpoints. Its functionality as a weapon, the sophisticated metallurgy and scientific thinking utilized...
Other Side River: Free Verse
The work of 36 modern Japanese women poets, writing in an "imported" Western verse form and astonishing us with their diverse viewpoints, rhythms, themes, and insights. A companion to A...
Korean Patchwork Quilting: 37 Modern Bojagi Style Projects
A book that will make you see and savour fabric in a whole new way. From its origins as wrapping cloths made from scraps of fabric to its place in...
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not...
Nobu West
Nobu Matsuhisa still stands above all the other great world-class chefs in being the only one who is truly celebrated internationally. In this third book, the first to be written...
Winter Counts
WINNER OF THE ANTHONY, BARRY, THRILLER, LEFTY AND MACAVITY AWARDS FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 'Harrowing and heartfelt, assured and highly accomplished. One of the standout thrillers of the year' CHRIS...
Annie of Ainsworth's Mill: A moving and dramatic Victorian saga of
It's 1897 and young Annie Maguire and her parents are leaving their farm in County Down, Ireland. Driven away by poverty they're looking for a place to start again. After...
The Witch of Wol Sin Lake (The Sacred Bone, Book 2)
In the sequel to And Break the Pretty Kings, crown princess Mirae continues to unravel her tangled future to save her queendom - perfect for fans of This Savage Song...
The Tatami Time Machine Blues: A Novel
In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During...
When the Museum is Closed
A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit Diary of a Void...
The Occupation
Winner of the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize 'Assured, deft, sophisticated. Chloe Adams is the real deal.' EMILY BITTO Breathtaking. SALLY HEPWORTH In the autumn of 1949, two women convene in...
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
From the authentic and original healing fiction author of TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES comes a 1.4-million-copy bestseller - set in a famously scenic railway line in Japan, following key emotional dramas...
The Power of Chowa: Finding Your Balance Using the Japanese Wisdom of
'Following Tanaka's wisdom is an easy way to start making life feel just a little more balanced' the Independent The Japanese wisdom of chowa offers a fresh perspective on how...