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Translated by Takami Nieda A Zainichi Korean teen comes of age in Japan in this groundbreaking debut novel about prejudice and diaspora. Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled...

Translated by Emily North A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she's pregnant. She's not. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata works...

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...

Translated by Jeffrey Angles Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu Prize Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko...

Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is...

Translated by An Seon Jae Two women's lives and identities are intertwined — through World War II and the Korean War — revealing the harsh realities of class division in...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan's master of crime. Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family...

A mesmerising novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect Worldof Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan. When Shouji Arai crosses one...

Translated by Giles Murray The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the...

Translated by Polly Barton 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...

Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito invites you to the horrific Tomb Town and beyond. Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre tableau. What fate...

The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back...

Translated by Kerim YasarAn off-kilter, darkly ironic novella from a Japanese literary star - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesIsolated in his Tokyo apartment, seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his...

Translated by Kendall Heitzmann Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer — part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella series Under strange circumstances, a young girl loses her...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins From the author of Winter in Sokcho, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The days are beginning to draw in. The...

Translated by Haydn Trowell Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Several days after...

Seven uplifting tales of warm, wise and sarcastic cats set in modern Japan through the changing seasons. The uplifting new Japanese cat novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The...

The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen. I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a...

Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence...

What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant called the Kamogawa Diner run by...

The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece — a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails...

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...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one...

Translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell *THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC — ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD* One of Japan's great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings...

You cannot create good without also creating evil. Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to...

Memories and stories from my family’s kitchen Practically any home-cooked Japanese meal revolves around rice. It sits beside miso soup, pickles, tofu and a piece of grilled fish at breakfast....

Translated by Haydn Trowell A 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...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori For fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of Convenience Store Woman. On the outskirts of Tokyo, local cats...

Translated by Ryan HolmbergAfter thirty years as a mainstay in the alt-manga periodicals Garo, Yagyo, and Comic Baku, cult comics artist Tsuge Tadao gets philosophical with Boat Life.Serialised between 1996...

"Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the West."...

Translated by Zack DavissonThe entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins...

Translated by Alan Turney In The Three-Cornered World, an artist leaves city life to wander in the mountains on a quest to stimulate his artistic endeavors. When he finds himself...

A diary of my sexual awakening...at thirty-three?!!Asuka is neither a woman nor a man — they're X-gender (a non-binary identity)-and they've realized they like women! Okay, now what? Adult films...

Translated by Margaret MitsutaniA mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished...

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...

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...

Translated by Deborah BoehmA classic Japanese murder mystery set in post-war Tokyo and steeped in the illicit subculture of Yakuza tattoos.Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered...

Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired...

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time. In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement...

From the mind of Japan's "queen of horror manga" comes a short story collection sure to put a grin on your face and send a chill down your spine. Survive...

An emotional new diary comic from the award-winning creator of My Lesbian Experience with Lonelinessand My Solo Exchange Diary.Nagata Kabi's downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can't...

Translated by David BoydFish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist.Two friends meet across...

Beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk talesDark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers, these Japanese fairy tales are enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and...

A dazzling debut for 12+ readers. Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation.There's a catfish...

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

A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Tired of the bustling city, a man takes...

A captivating and unexpected collection of two female Japanese poets from the 9th and 10th centuriesHere is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They...

The Japanese art of meditative gardeningSpring, summer, autumn, and winter — wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected.Japanese by birth, but transplanted to...

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...