Japan
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Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
$18.00 Add to cartA suspenseful magical realism novel about a mysterious teenage “Go-Between” who arranges meetings between the living and the dead, from multimillion copy Japanese bestselling author Mizuki Tsujimura. … [more below]
- Author: Tsujimura, Mizuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1668099837
- 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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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
$18.00 Add to cartThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan’s bestselling and most celebrated authors.
From Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of novellas about love, motherho- Author: Ogawa, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250375967
- Language: English
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Swallows
$29.00 Add to cartThe highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she’s ready to sell anything–even her womb–to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple… [more below]
- Author: Kirino, Natsuo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 030726758X
- Language: English
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Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Saipan comes the definitive account of one of World War II’s most brutal yet overlooked battles–the American reconquest of Guam, where 20 days of combat would claim o… [more below]
- Author: Hallas, James H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0811776891
- Language: English
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A Plague Upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan’s Biological Warfare Program
$19.99 Add to cartFrom 1932 to 1945, in a headlong quest to develop germ warfare capability for the military of Imperial Japan, hundreds of Japanese doctors, nurses and research scientists willingly participated in wha
- Author: Barenblatt, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0060933879
- Language: English
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In This Body, in This Lifetime: Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen Women
$24.95 Read moreAvailable for the first time in English, an intimate look into the private lives and spiritual experiences of 30 nuns and laywomen practicing under pioneering female Zen master Sozen Nagasawa Roshi in… [more below]
- Author: Roshi, Sozen Nagasawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1645473589
- Language: English
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Murder in the House of Omari
$17.95 Add to cartUse your powers of logic and deduction to solve this classic honkaku puzzler–the Japanese tradition of detective fiction–in this delicious twisty murder mystery!
In Osaka, dark secrets haunt a wealt- Series: Pushkin Vertigo
- Author: Ashibe, Taku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1805335219
- Language: English
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The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
$21.99 Add to cartThe enchanting new novel by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, about five strangers who each seek comfort from a healing hippo ride.
Nestled at the… [more below]
- Author: Aoyama, Michiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1335016333
- Language: English
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Tattoo: The Iconography of Japan
$39.99 Add to cartIn this book, the beauty and design of Japanese tattoos are explored through ukiyo-e prints and explained in detailed bilingual Japanese and English text.
In recent years, the number of ukiyo-e tattoo
- Author: Hamada, Nobuyoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 4756258603
- 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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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
$27.00 Add to cart“[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”–The Wall Street Journal
“A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of al- Author: Southard, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109421
- Language: English
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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
$16.95 Add to cartMadness, murder and obsession: a stylishly original and fantastical collection of stories from an iconic Japanese writer
A collection of the 7 essential Akutagawa short stories, in a vivid and elegant- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Akutagawa, Ryonosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330292
- 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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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$32.95 Add to cartSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520403886
- Language: English
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$45.00 Add to cartSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520389557
- Language: English
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The Art of the Samurai: Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure
$24.95 Add to cartThe way of the samurai is found in death. These words, written 300 years ago by the samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo, offer a seemingly grim introduction to a practice and philosophy that was in fact anythi… [more below]
- Author: Tsunetomo, Yamamoto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1627951288
- Language: English
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Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
$21.99 Add to cartSeven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, lique
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074604
- 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
