Japan

Books that are set in Japan.

New Releases Tagged "Japan"

The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General
Greedy
Crown City
チェンソーマン 23 [Chainsaw Man 23]
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Klara and the Sun
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
Dandadan, Vol. 1
Flashlight
Family of Spies
さよなら絵梨 [Sayonara Eri]
Look Back
Water Moon
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
チェンソーマン 20 [Chainsaw Man 20]
Norwegian Wood
Convenience Store Woman
Kafka on the Shore
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Kitchen
Pachinko
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Snow Country
No Longer Human
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Kokoro
After Dark
A Tale for the Time Being
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGeisha, a Life by Mineko IwasakiGeisha by Liza DalbyAutobiography of a Geisha by Sayo MasudaA Geisha's Journey by Komomo
Geisha
47 books — 135 voters

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn TanDescendant of the Crane by Joan HeThe Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhWicked Fox by Kat ChoThe Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow
YA East Asian Fantasy
172 books — 200 voters
Death Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi OhbaVampire Knight, Vol. 1 by Matsuri HinoOne Piece, Volume 1 by Eiichiro OdaSkip Beat!, Vol. 1 by Yoshiki NakamuraCase Closed, Vol. 1 by Gosho Aoyama
Best Manga Author
172 books — 162 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiShōgun by James Clavell
Best Books on Asia
999 books — 829 voters
Battle Royale by Koushun TakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Books That Are Not Manga
257 books — 190 voters


Ryū Murakami
After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born Japanese. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there. ...more
Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

John Rachel
Violence was a slippery slope, lubricated by a lot of blood, if history had any lessons to teach.
John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

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