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The Way of the Samurai

The Way of the Samurai

$13.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
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

Tokyo New Wave: 31 Chefs Defining Japan's Next Generation, with Recipes

$69.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
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...
Dorodango: The Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls

Dorodango: The Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls

$24.99 AUD$12.50 AUD
Author: Bruce Gardner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The exquisite Japanese hikaru dorodango, or shiny mud ball, is created by rolling earth by hand into a perfect sphere and...
Emperor of the Eight Islands: Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko series

Emperor of the Eight Islands: Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko series

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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

The Fleet at Flood Tide America at Total War in the Pacific

$59.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...
Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success

Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success

$55.00 AUD$27.50 AUD
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

Kokeshi Kimono Book

$10.00 AUD
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)

Forest Bathing: Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku (A Start Here Guide)

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
CIBI: Simple Japanese-inspired Meals to Share with Family and Friends

CIBI: Simple Japanese-inspired Meals to Share with Family and Friends

$50.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
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...
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future

Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future

$15.00 AUD
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

The Way of Nagomi: Live more harmoniously the Japanese way

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...
Peach Blossom Spring: A glorious, sweeping novel about family and the search for home

Peach Blossom Spring: A glorious, sweeping novel about family and the search for home

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California

Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California

$60.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
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

Rare Whisky: Explore the World's Most Exquisite Spirits

$115.00 AUD$55.00 AUD
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...
Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

$39.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...
Even Cats and Rice Ladles: The Wise and Witty World of Japanese Sayings

Even Cats and Rice Ladles: The Wise and Witty World of Japanese Sayings

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
Designing Modern Japan

Designing Modern Japan

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
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...
Let's Say Hello

Let's Say Hello

$14.99 AUD$7.00 AUD
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....
The Japanese Guide to Healthy Drinking: Advice from a Sake-loving Doctor on How Alcohol Can Be Good for You

The Japanese Guide to Healthy Drinking: Advice from a Sake-loving Doctor on How Alcohol Can Be Good for You

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California

Rintaro: Japanese Food from an Izakaya in California

$60.00 AUD$48.00 AUD
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...
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
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...
Catfish Rolling

Catfish Rolling

$17.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
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...
The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel

The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Tomihiko Morimi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE* An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the...
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny

The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
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...
Even Cats and Rice Ladles: The Wise and Witty World of Japanese Sayings

Even Cats and Rice Ladles: The Wise and Witty World of Japanese Sayings

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
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

I Am a Cat

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
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 Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld

The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld

$17.50 AUD
Author: Jake Adelstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'The Last Yakuza might be a work of non-fiction, but it reads more like a thriller... a gripping read' - Irish...
Get Started in Japanese Absolute Beginner Course: (Book and audio support)

Get Started in Japanese Absolute Beginner Course: (Book and [...]

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Do you want a solid foundation to your Japanese studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will...
Reiki, Orion Plain and Simple

Reiki, Orion Plain and Simple

$22.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
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...
Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku

Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Yoshifumi Miyazaki Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'It is clear that our bodies still recognize nature as our home...' - Yoshifumi Miyazaki 'Forest bathing' or shinrin-yoku is a...
The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing

The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing

$27.99 AUD$22.39 AUD
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...
Teatimes: A World Tour

Teatimes: A World Tour

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
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...
The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets

The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets

$15.00 AUD
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

Dream a Little Dream

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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...
Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars

$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Tokyo Redux

Tokyo Redux

$22.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: David Peace (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A powerful, stirring read.' - The Times 'Typically brilliant . I loved it.' - Adrian McKinty 'The most stone-cold crime...
No Longer Human: A New Translation

No Longer Human: A New Translation

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Osamu Dazai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of...
Curiously Cute Manga: A Colouring Book

Curiously Cute Manga: A Colouring Book

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
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...
100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Cafe

100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Cafe

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
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

Memoirs of a Geisha

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
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

The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect

$49.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...
The Monster Book of Manga Creatures and Characters Coloring Book

The Monster Book of Manga Creatures and Characters Coloring Book

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...
Gigi and Ojiji: What's in a Name?

Gigi and Ojiji: What's in a Name?

$12.99 AUD$8.00 AUD
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,...
The North Light

The North Light

$55.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
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...
Patient X The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Patient X The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

$29.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
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...
Japanese Essential Dictionary: All the words you need, every day (Collins Essential)

Japanese Essential Dictionary: All the words you need, every day (Collins Essential)

$19.99 AUD$16.99 AUD
Author: Collins Dictionaries Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The home of trusted Japanese dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Japanese to English and English to Japanese...
The Ikigai Journey: A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose the Japanese Way

The Ikigai Journey: A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose the Japanese Way

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
Author: Hector Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Ikigai is the place where our passion (what we love), mission (what we hope to contribute), vocation (the gifts we have...