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The Way of the Samurai
Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge...
Tokyo New Wave: 31 Chefs Defining Japan's Next Generation, with Recipes
Author: Andrea Fazzari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Showcasing the new talent of Tokyo's vibrant food scene, Andrea Fazzari profiles 31 chefs who are shaping the future of one...
Emperor of the Eight Islands: Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko series
Author: Lian Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Like George R. R. Martin, Lian Hearn has captivated millions of readers worldwide with her masterpiece of imagination, TALES...
The Fleet at Flood Tide America at Total War in the Pacific
Author: James Hornfischer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An unprecedented account of the monumental Pacific War campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its power and...
CIBI: Simple Japanese-inspired Meals to Share with Family and Friends
Author: Meg Tanaka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 CIBI ('a little one') is a book on home-style Japanese cooking inspired by the eponymous Melbourne cafe and design space created...
Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success
Author: Tim Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In Ramen Forever, Tim Anderson shows you the way to enjoy delicious homemade ramen on a regular basis, and gives you...
Kokeshi Kimono Book
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Author: Annelore Parot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 36 Konichiwa! Welcome to the world of the Kokeshi! Inspired by traditional Japanese dolls, this delightful universe has sophistication, style, and an...
Forest Bathing: Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku (A Start Here Guide)
Author: Cyndi Gilbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Author and naturopathic physician Dr. Cyndi Gilbert introduces readers to the art and science of forest bathing, the deceptively...
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future
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Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...
The Way of Nagomi: Live more harmoniously the Japanese way
Author: Ken Mogi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 NAGOMI is the Japanese ideology that advocates embracing everything life throws at us so we can live peacefully and harmoniously. There...
Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller
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Peach Blossom Spring: A glorious, sweeping novel about family and the search for home
Author: Melissa Fu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Melissa Fu portrays the time, the culture, the place and the struggles of this family so vividly, with nuance...
Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California
Author: Sylvan Mishima Brackett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 RINTARO, the debut cookbook from one of San Francisco's most acclaimed restaurants, translates the experience of a Tokyo izakaya to...
Rare Whisky: Explore the World's Most Exquisite Spirits
Author: Patrick Mahe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 *** Rare Whisky is a stylish exploration of the world's finest and rarest whiskies, exquisitely packaged in a hardback book with...
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
"A fascinating cultural history" (People) of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion A strange thing has happened over the last two decades: the world has come to...
Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Author: David Peace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of...
Designing Modern Japan
Author: Sarah Teasley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to...
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked...
The Japanese Guide to Healthy Drinking: Advice from a Sake-loving Doctor on How Alcohol Can Be Good for You
Author: Kaori Haishi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'People in Japan take their drink seriously. But alcohol is seriously bad for you. This book will tell you how to...
Let's Say Hello
Author: Giselle Ang Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Teach babies to greet others in twelve different languages with this adorable multilingual board book! Get ready, everyone! LET'S SAY...HELLO....
Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California
Author: Sylvan Mishima Brackett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 RINTARO, the debut cookbook from one of San Francisco's most acclaimed restaurants, translates the experience of a Tokyo izakaya to...
Hidden Japan: An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, this book takes its...
A Perfect Day to be Alone: the award-winning Japanese coming-of-age
*WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE, Japan's most prestigious literary award, first published when the author was just 24**A Japanese contemporary classic, perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman**A love letter...
Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop (No dust jacket edition)
Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan's leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopaedic knowledge and fan's love of both Japanese and American...
Catfish Rolling
An exhilarating debut novel by Clara Kumagai, a dazzling new voice for 12+. Magic-realism and Japanese myth and legend blend in an original story about grief, memory, time - and...
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever...
The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing
Author: Liz Marvin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Taking sixty of the world's most amazing flowers and flowering plants, including the corpse flower from Indonesia, the bat-face cuphea and...
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
Author: Bradley Schurman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age...
The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets
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Andrew Pekarik's "The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets" is an exceptionally beautiful and useful publication that celebrates in art and text the work of top women poets who worked from the...
Dream a Little Dream
The next heartwarming instalment of the Timber Girls Series. Perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Pam Howes.Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the...
Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan
Author: Sokyo OnoFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 203mm, 144 pagesPublished: Tuttle Publishing, United States, 2024Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us!Shinto: The Japanese...
Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan: A Journey by Train from Hokkaido to Kyushu
Author: John DougillFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 308 pagesPublished: Stone Bridge Press, United States, 2023Observations on the people, culture, and history of Japan from a long-time resident riding the rails...
Even Cats and Rice Ladles: The Wise and Witty World of Japanese Sayings
Author: Yoshie Omata Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 What do cats have to do with rice ladles? What do the moon and soft-shell turtles have in common? And why...
I Am a Cat
Author: Soseki Natsume Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during...
The Monster Book of Manga Creatures and Characters Coloring Book
Author: Estudio Joso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 A collection of eye-catching images to color that capture the diversity of the manga universe and the unique personalities of its...
The North Light
A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino...
Reiki, Orion Plain and Simple
Author: Philip Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A pracitcal guide to opening and strengthening your reiki channels. Since originating in Japan in 1922, Reiki has been adapted to...
Teatimes: A World Tour
Author: Helen Saberi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In Teatimes: A World Tour food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a journey into the fascinating history of teatimes, from...
Jutaku: Japanese Houses
Author: Naomi Pollock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Quirky, surprising and entertaining - with more than 400 houses, Jutaku is architecture at the speed of Japan. Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting....
Snow Falling on Cedars
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Curiously Cute Manga: A Colouring Book
Author: Desti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Journey through the world of cute and creepy manga art in this striking colouring book. Lurking inside are over 40 dark yet...
Japan Awakens Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period
This book uses the woodblock prints of Japan's Meiji era to explore a remarkable period of rapid societal, industrial, military, and cultural modernization, when Japan metamorphosed from feudal state to...
100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Cafe
Author: Julian Sedgwick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 420 Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to find his family...
Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 316 Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan«s most dramatic history, the geisha«s story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and...
The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect
Author: Noreena Hertz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'If I could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.' Guardian 'Destined to...
Gigi and Ojiji: What's in a Name?
Author: Melissa Iwai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Gigi wants to go by something besides her baby name-but her full name, Geraldine, is too long to write and Hanako,...
Tokyo Redux
Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the...
Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That
A rousing look at Japanese railways and history for railroad enthusiasts. Dan Free tells the fascinating history of the rise of Japanese railways amidst a period of rapid modernisation during...