Japanese Literature

Cover: Softback, Pages: 224, Author: Yasunari Kawabata...

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. ...

Lafcadio Hearn Paperback 256 pages The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese gh...

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...

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 160 pages Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first...

Paperback 576 pages A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth centu...

PaperbackSeishi Yokomizo In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the ap...

SoftbackYukio Mishima Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social el...

PaperbackToshikazu Kawaguchi In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customer...

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 Polic...

Paperback Image for In Praise of Shadows : Vintage Design Edition Click to enlarge In Praise of Shadows : Vintage Design Edition by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Author) Format:Paperback / softback 128 pa...

Author: Yôko Ogawa, Cover: Softback, Pages: 192...

Author: Nao-Cola Yamazaki Cover: Paperback / softback Pages: 144...

Author: Naoko Higashi Cover: Hardback Pages: 176...

Author: Yoko Tawada, Cover: Softback, Pages: 240...

Author: Asako Yuzuki, Cover: Softback, Pages: 400...

Author: Seicho Matsumoto, Cover: Softback, Pages: 112...

Author: Yukio Mishima , Cover: Paperback, Pages: 272...

Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 224...

Author: Shusaku Endo, Cover: Softback, Pages: 176...

Author: Aoko Matsuda , Cover: Softback, Pages: 200...

Author: Yoko Tawada, Cover: Softback, Pages: 240...

Author: Hiyoko Kurisu, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 240...

Found only in Japan: Locking up prisoners in a giant skyscraper while practising "radical sympathy" towards them....