World Literature - Japan
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The Neverending Book
$27.99 Read moreAn aged, near-blind, book-loving king sends two of his subjects out into the world to learn about unusual and magical books. One year later, they return to tell the whimsical, tender, and touching sto
- Author: Matayoshi, Naoki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 132412380X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant: Volume I
$34.99 Add to cartOriginally crafted in 1800s Edo period Japan, this precursor to manga is an honored fantasy adventure that has inspired readers for generations. Immerse yourself in this captivating story of bravery,
- Author: Danielsen, Andreas Kronborg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1965492061
- Language: English
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Los Secretos de la Papeler?a Shihodo / Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationaty Shop
$21.95 Add to cartUn tributo exquisito al arte de la caligraf?a y el poder de la correspondencia. Cinco historias alrededor de una encantadora papeler?a en Tokio.
Escondida en las calles del elegante barrio de Ginza, en… [more below]- Author: Ueda, Kenji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 841034002X
- Language: Spanish
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When the Museum Is Closed
$18.95 Add to cartA quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a Void
Rika Horauchi’s new part-time- Author: Yagi, Emi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1593768273
- Language: English
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The Luminous Fairies and Mothra
$19.95 Add to cartThe original story that hatched Mothra, one of the most beloved monsters in the “kaijuverse”–available in English for the first time
Mystical and benevolent, the colossal lepidopteran Mothra has bee- Author: Fukunaga, Takehiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1517920019
- Language: English
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The Third Love
$27.00 Add to cartA time-bending story of love, desire, and destiny that sways between Japan’s past and its present–from a courtesan of Yoshiwara in Edo to a serving lady of the Heian period to a wife and mother in th… [more below]
- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1593768052
- Language: English
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Days at the Torunka Caf?
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo caf? where customers find unexpected connection and experience ever
- Author: Yagisawa, Satoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063445859
- Language: English
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The Woman Dies
$18.00 Add to cartTales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are
In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny
- Author: Matsuda, Aoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889661337
- Language: English
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Archipelago of the Sun
$16.95 Add to cartThe Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of movin… [more below]
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239799
- Language: English
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No One Knows
$15.95 Add to cartNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239330
- Language: English
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The Premonition
$16.95 Add to cartThe internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitabl… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096647
- 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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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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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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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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The Place of Shells
$14.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of G?ttingen is working on a PhD about the iconogra
- Author: Ishizawa, Mai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0811237788
- Language: English
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A Perfect Day to Be Alone
$15.99 Add to cartThe English-language debut of a prize-winning Japanese author, this touching, subtly funny novel evokes the daily struggles and hopes of two women from different generations.
When her mother emigrates- Author: Aoyama, Nanae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425395
- Language: English
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Ninja Punks, @*&% OFF!
$24.99 Add to cartPunk rock is a repudiation of society-a critique of something shiny at its surface but corrupt and rotten just beneath. For all the perfect bodies, smiles, and jawlines that ascend to the spotlight’s
- Author: Nelson, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889262169
- Language: English
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1593768079
- Language: English
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The Summer House
$18.99 Add to cartThis prize-winning debut novel offers a compelling, insightful portrait of modern Japan through a group of architects competing to design a major new building in Tokyo.
Tōru Sakanishi is a recent- Author: Matsuie, Masashi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425174
- Language: English
