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Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist. ...
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...
Norwegian Wood
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title...
Kokeshi Style Design Your Own Kokeshi Fashions
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Author: Annelore Parot Format: Diary Number of Pages: 120 Konnichiwa! Welcome to the world of Kokeshi. Inspired by traditional Japanese dolls, this delightful universe has sophistication, style and an up-to-the-minute...
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 Memory Police
Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020,...
Kokeshi Kimono Book
$10.00
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...
Killing Commendatore
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 We...
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances Growing up in the suburbs in...
Out: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Natsuo Kirino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
The Beauty of Everyday Things
Author: Soetsu Yanagi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of...
The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K....
Men Without Women: Stories
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection...
The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
A Wild Sheep Chase
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems A marvelous hybrid of...
Six Four: the bestselling Japanese crime sensation
Author: Hideo Yokoyama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands...
Underground
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
Snow Country
Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45
Author: Richard Overy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this...
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Excellent' Antony Beevor 'Saul David is a brilliant historian ... In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle...
Buddhist Scriptures
Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
Kokoro
Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A magical cultural history of modern Japan. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the...
The Box Man
Author: Kobo Abe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man'The streets of Tokyo have been...
The Harmony Silk Factory
Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a...
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...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
The Coast Watchers: The Men Behind Enemy Lines Who Saved the Pacific
Author: Patrick Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 " They watched and warned and died that we might live. (Inscription on the Coastwatcher Memorial at Madang, PNG)"...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
Botchan
Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...
Patient X The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo...
Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. A seductive...
Empire of the Sun (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)
Author, J. G. Ballard Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 352 The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of...