2024 releases

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Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand

$34.99
Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now...
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Self-Portraits: Stories

$26.99
Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best―and worst “Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said...
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The Tatami Time Machine Blues

$49.99
In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During...
In Praise of Shadows

In Praise of Shadows

$16.99
This eloquent work on the Japanese sense of beauty explores the subtle interplay of shade and light in several important aspects of Japanese life — architecture, drama, food, femininity and...
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Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1

$41.00
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga editor, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life these days. After 30 years as...
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Butter

$32.99
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that...
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The Doctor of Hiroshima

$32.99
His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to...
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Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan

$22.99
Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us. Shinto: The Japanese World of Kami Spirits is a concise guide to the fundamental elements...
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It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life

$24.99
A Zen Monk's Guide to Living Stress-Free One Day at a Time Free Yourself from Stress with Simple, No-Nonsense Advice from a Zen Monk! Zen monk Jikisai Minami takes the...
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Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I

$27.99
Any list of Japan’s greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto near or at the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his...
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Life Ceremony

$22.99
Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read...
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The Black Lizard

$22.99
One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fiction A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a...
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The Factory

$27.99
From the author of Weasels in the Attic, here is a modern fable about the all-consuming world of work. Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is...
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The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping

$27.99
THE WAGES OF CYNICISM A battle-tested project leader at PR firm Cyberplan and a slippery bachelor, Sakuma is smug self-regard personified. But when his idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed...
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Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

$34.99
Will green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying? Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life-support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei...
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Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

$34.99
Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of...
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Even Cats and Rice Ladles

$24.99
Wise and Witty World of Japanese Sayings Explore the wonderful world of Japanese sayings. Did you know the Japanese have a word for when you’re not hungry but want to...
Idol, Burning

Idol, Burning

$24.99
INNER OF THE 2021 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom 'My oshi was on fire. Word was he'd punched a fan'...
What You Are Looking For is in the Library

What You Are Looking For is in the Library

$22.99
Translated by Alison Watts THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL NOVEL The irresistible hardback Times bestseller and bookshop favourite about the healing power of books and community; Time magazine Top 100 books of 2023; 'An undeniable...
Death in Midsummer

Death in Midsummer

$22.99
Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writersBringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human...
Dead-End Memories

Dead-End Memories

$26.99
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 storyteller returns with...
Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

$22.99
Translated by Philip Gabriel THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR- A Japanese bestseller about three students whose friendship is tested to the limit as they fight to...
The Mantis

The Mantis

$22.99
Translated by Sam Malissa Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both? From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN. A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his...
The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga #4)

The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga #4)

$24.99
Translated by Giles Murray The Final Curtain brings the story of Detective Kaga to a surprising conclusion in a series of rich, surprising twists with a confounding murder in Tokyo...
Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun: Manga edition

Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun: Manga edition

$24.99
Adapted by Coco Kashiwaya A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time! This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun,...