Cultural Region/Japanese
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Three Assassins
$17.00 Read more“Three Assassins feels like a fever dream that makes sense when you’re in it, but whose strange contours linger long after you wake up.” —New York Times
Three Assassins is the high-stakes, high-style- Author: Isaka, Kotaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1419763865
- Language: English
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Japanese Children’s Favorite Stories
$17.95 Add to cartThis colorfully illustrated multicultural children’s book presents Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories–providing insight into a vibrant literary culture.
For 60 years, generations of English-- Series: Favorite Children’s Stories
- Author: Sakade, Florence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 4, 2014
- ISBN10: 4805312602
- Language: English
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47 Ronin: The Classic Tale of Samurai Loyalty, Bravery and Retribution
$12.99 Add to cartA classic tale that will captivate lovers of Japan, history, and epic adventure alike.
Japan’s most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty and revenge–and the basis for a Hollywood feature film starri- Author: Allyn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 7, 2018
- ISBN10: 4805314656
- Language: English
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Hiroshima
$16.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey’s seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the … [more below]
- Author: Hersey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 0593082362
- Language: English
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Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s Legendary CEO
$22.99 Add to cart“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.” –Satoru Iwata
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER “A welcome salve and a book that anyone who- Author: Bett, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 13, 2021
- ISBN10: 197472154X
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$20.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Po… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188534
- Language: English
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Sushi Cookbook for Beginners: 100 Step-By-Step Recipes to Make Sushi at Home
$13.99 Add to cartLearn the intricate and delicious art of sushi with beginner-friendly recipes
Sushi is a true culinary art form, filled with colors, textures, sauces, and infinite presentations. Behind every deliciou
- Author: Ravitch, Chika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 28, 2020
- ISBN10: 1646118782
- Language: English
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The Setting Sun
$24.95 Read moreThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the … [more below]
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234444
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$27.00 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316296619
- Language: English
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Art of the Japanese Sword: The Craft of Swordmaking and Its Appreciation
$44.95 Add to cartIn The Art of the Japanese Sword, master swordsmith Yoshindo Yoshihara offers a detailed look at the entire process of Japanese sword making, including the finishing and appreciation of Japanese blade… [more below]
- Author: Yoshihara, Yoshindo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 4805312408
- Language: English
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Gyoza: The Ultimate Dumpling Cookbook: 50 Recipes from Tokyo’s Gyoza King – Pot Stickers, Dumplings, Spring Rolls and More!
$16.99 Add to cartWhether eaten in an exclusive restaurant or at a humble street stall, gyoza dumplings are the ultimate Asian comfort food.
Dumplings are surprisingly easy to make once you learn a few basic technique- Author: Yamamoto, Paradise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 4, 2018
- ISBN10: 4805314907
- Language: English
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The Samurai’s Garden
$19.00 Add to cartThe daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama’s The Samurai’s Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary stor
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0312144075
- Language: English
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Honeybees and Distant Thunder
$26.95 Add to cartTHE MILLION-COPY AWARD-WINNING JAPANESE BESTSELLER
“Onda’s rich descriptions capture often elusive topics–music and longing–and bring the classical repertoire to vivid life.” —People, BEST NEW BOOK- Author: Onda, Riku
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936403X
- Language: English
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Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage
$27.95 Add to cartFrom ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic practice. Now, accomplished Japanese-born educator and bo
- Author: Midori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04, 2002
- ISBN10: 1890159387
- Language: English
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Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
$14.95 Add to cartDo you know what the hardest thing for a Japanese learner is?
Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book!
You may have found the best … [more below]
- Series: Easy Japanese Stories
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 7, 2020
- ISBN10: 1951949226
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Mask
$15.95 Add to cartConfessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1958
- ISBN10: 081120118X
- Language: English
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The Forest Brims Over
$16.95 Add to cartA woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband’s novels–this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the lit… [more below]
- Author: Ayase, Maru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095373
- Language: English
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Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
$49.95 Add to cart“Shattered Sword [is] a necessary read for anyone interested in the Pacific War.”–NYMAS Review
Shattered Sword is the winner of the 2005 John Lyman Book Award for the “Best Book in U.S. Naval History”
- Author: Parshall, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574889230
- Language: English
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Japanese Tattoos: Meanings, Shapes and Motifs
$29.95 Add to cartThe intimate relationship of Japanese tattooing with the dark world of the yakuza has helped cover this form of artistic expression with an aura of mystery. But the culture of irezumi is deep and rich
- Author: Moriarty, Yori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 20, 2018
- ISBN10: 8416851964
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
$25.00 Add to cartIn June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier a
- Series: Pacific War Trilogy #3
- Author: Toll, Ian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: July 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868303
- Language: English
