Japan

Explore the macabre mind of Japan’s master of horror, Junji Ito, in this chilling adult coloring book.Following the success of the first Junji Ito coloring book, Junji Ito Collection: A...

Obsession and persistence warp reality in this collection of macabre stories set in Junji Ito’s bloodcurdling world.  A dark evil lurks in the unreachable depths of a pipe, groaning out moans...

Translated by Stephen Snyder A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an...

Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin...

A new and unabridged 3-book translation of Eiji Yoshikawa's bestselling novel about Miyamoto Musashi the most famous swordfighter in Japanese history! This is the first book of Musashi: The Novel, a...

Translated by Jordan Taylor THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM JAPAN. HALF A MILLION COPIES AND TRANSLATED INTO 20 LANGUAGES Welcome back to the Full Moon Coffee Shop. What do you...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori  The heartbreaking story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time. In the...

Shogun meets Sherlock Holmes! Over 24 million copies have been sold of this beloved samurai adventure It has been half a year since Akiyama Daijiro became a samurai; half a...

A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki - and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.'A book that everyone should read' The TimesOn 9th August 1945,...

A thrillingly dark novel from 'Japan's Agatha Christie' (Sunday Times)While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart...

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood The award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon. A propulsive, prophetic novel about the beauty of language and the nature of identity in the age of AI.Welcome to the...

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood An ingenious Japanese crime novel with a brilliant Groundhog Day twist: a teenager’s time-loop race to solve—and possibly prevent—his grandfather’s murder! Contemporary Japanese legend Yasuhiko Nishizawa...

Translated by Polly Barton Piercing, inventive, and darkly humorous, the fifty-two stories in Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies explore the persistent and pervasive sexism faced by women in modern-day Japan.The...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Tokyo, 1947.The Pink Labyrinth is one of the bomb-scarred city's most shady neighbourhoods. There, in the dead of night a patrolling policeman catches a young Buddhist...

The two phenomenal international bestsellers now in one beautiful, foiled gift editionA beautiful, collectable hardback that brings together Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop in one volume.A young...

Cosy crime meets Before the Coffee Gets Cold in Masateru Konishi’s poignant and enchanting debut novel, My Grandfather, the Master Detective – a Japanese The Thursday Murder Club. There used to be a cafe called...

Translated by Yuka Maeno There is a small cafe in Tokyo where something unusual is brewing... Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought she and her boyfriend were in...

Delicious Everyday Home Cooking The most popular comfort food dishes in Japan - perfect for the home kitchen From crispy katsusando and moreish yakisoba, to snackable onigiri and reviving shoyu...

A runaway bestseller in Japan, The Neverending Book is both a standout illustrated fable and a love letter to those for whom books are so much more than words on...

Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels.Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's two first novels - here they are together in one edition.Now I think it's time to tell my...

The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.When he...

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973.The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big...

'What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real' A lavishly illustrated edition of Murakami's classic short story.Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It...

From Sake to Soy, Essential Ingredients for Japanese Home Cooking The Japanese Pantry is a follow up to Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking, Emiko's tribute to her mother's family and her...

In this manga-inspired YA graphic novel, Tokyo schoolgirl Hana Suzuki’s life is changed forever when she is chosen to attend Japan’s premier magical academy A magical story of friendship and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together,...

The Menu of Happiness, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the third book in the bestselling, delightful Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Nostalgic and...

The brand new lifestyle guide from Marie Kondo, explaining her principles to life, drawn from Japanese culture. In 2014, Marie Kondo became famous around the world, changed how we live,...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday...

Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes This second edition brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up-to-date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in...

Translated by Nick Bradley Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City.'I am a Cat. But I...

The highly anticipated new novel - The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat for fans of The Travelling...

Your pocket-sized practical guide to the ancient Japanese art of manifesting and pre-celebration. A journey to manifest your goals and wishes is a universal pursuit, often guided by particular methods...

A charming fable-like novel in translation about half-fox shopkeeper Kogetsu, who learns life and emotional lessons through his interactions with the customers in his shop . . . For fans...

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani **Winner of The Yomiuri Prize for Literature, 2012** The Japanese novel comes of age in this gripping story of love, art and life as a group...

Translated by Erik Lofgren 1,000 haiku by Sseki Natsume, collected into one volume for the first time! Sōseki Natsume is Japan's most popular writer, well known in the West for...

Twenty-two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller Translated by Richard Medhurst Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible.' Chris Power, The Guardian...

Records of Ancient Matters The classic story of Japan's origins—now in a fully revised and reader-friendly edition. The Kojiki is Japan's oldest surviving text, chronicling the mythical creation of the...

The Japanese secret to a long and happy life 'A joyful exploration of Japanese philosophy on food, home, and family - rich with practical insights for newcomers and longtime admirers...

‘Moko and Omar are as generous and gifted as writers as they are as cooks, and this is a book to both cook from and read through.’ – Dorie Greenspan...

Meet Memen, the calm and collected older sister, and Mori, the curious younger brother. When Mori asks big questions like, “What is the meaning of life?,” how does big sis...

Translated from the Japanese by Yui Kajita The perfect cosy read for 2025 - cats and food come together as the seasons change Meet Chimaki and Norimaki - two young...

Translated from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-book...

80 Easy Rice Recipes, From Mochi to Miso and Sushi to Sake A glorious celebration of rice with 80 delicious recipes and text that explores preparing, cooking and storing this...

WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Gottingen waits at the train station to meet...

Translated by Chi-Young Kim An award-winning and movingly introspective exploration of life, art and love from South Korea 'If you wanted to end your life instantly, perfectly, you needed practice...

  'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear Are you...

A Novel Full of Opportunity Translated by Takami Nieda Combining the whimsy and possibility of The Midnight Library with the mystery and revelatory power of The Secret, Come along for...

Translated by Jim Rion A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of unsettling floorplans, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensation Uketsu A sinister...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one...