Japanese Literature

Author: Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304...

Author: Sanaka Hiiragi, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224...

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 224 pages There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun. Japan's internationally celebrated sto...

Hideo Furukawa Paperback 128 pages A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez 'I've never made it out of Tokyo. I can't tell you how many times I've ask...

Satoshi Yagisawa Paperback 176 pages In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's de...

Yukio Mishima Paperback 176 pages 'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured w...

Tatsuya Endo Paperback 192 pages Defiant and brash, Princess Kaguya Takenouchi isn't the ideal heir to the moon's Silver Court. But when villainous usurpers attack her people, she must rise to t...

Futaro Yamada Paperback 384 pages okyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime struggles to keep the peace as old...

Hiroko Oyamada 128 pages From the award-winning author of Weasels in the Attic, a modern fable about the world of workBeyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing. ...

Hisashi Kashiwai Paperback The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Bef...

Satoshi Yagisawa Paperback 160 pages 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...

Sosuke Natsukawa Paperback 224 pages Grandpa used to say it all the time: Books have tremendous power. But what is that power really?Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge o...

Hardback Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. ...

Hardback It's not the journey that counts, but who's at your side. Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in ...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 160, Author: Hiromi Kawakami...

Author: Yoko Ogawa , Cover: Softback, Pages: 176...

Seishi Yokomizo Paperback 320 pages An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murd...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Paperback 192 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what ...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Hardback 224 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Now as a beautiful, collectible hardback - the perfect gift. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Col...

Osamu Dazai Paperback 256 pages "Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishm...

Yukio Mishima Paperback 160 pages The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in lov...

Ryu Murakami Paperback 512 pages Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. Raised amidst the...

Mieko Kanai Paperback 176 pages Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarke...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 192, Author: Suzuki Izumi...