A 1988 Viking 
VGC - Dust cover tear back at bottom corner & line across ~ Please see pics for details.
412 pgs #hardcover #fiction #Japanese #family #WWII 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Montana

Japanese Family After WWII

The left-at-home residents and ranchers of Luster, Wyoming, and the Japanese-American inmates of nearby Heart Mountain Relocation Camp contend with colliding political and personal circumstances

Heart Mountain

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#hardcover #fiction #japanese #thriller #yafiction 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

"In Japan, a teenage boy with narcolepsy is able to steal the thoughts of supernatural beings in his sleep, and uses this ability to defeat a mountain demon that's causing a string of suicides at his school"--

The Monster on the Road Is Me

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#hardcover #DragonsAtTheGate #MadeIntoAMovie #CIA #GovernmentUnderworlds #Japanese #Betrayal #Vintage #Adventure #DoubleCross #Blackmail box 53 There is a $7.50 purchase minimum when buying from my shop. There is a platform fee, packaging, travel costs and of course my time. My prices are extremely low, and so please if you don’t need another book, please buy one for a friend. Thanks for understanding. 😊I'm on Instagram as karrisbookstore. https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=1en2bac5na0c2&utm_content=oevzh6i

Texas

Please read the description

Dragons at the gate

#movie #DVD #fiction #Japanese #japaneseculture #memoirsofageisha 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Memoirs of a Geisha

#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #historical #worldwar2 #japanese #romance #ww2 

Pennsylvania

From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. The Japanese Lover is a tender story that explores issues of race and identity, abandonment and reconciliation, and centers on two women: elderly, enigmatic Alma and her caretaker, the younger, devoted Irina, who is hiding a dark past. With an intricate, gripping plot that takes readers inside the US internment camps where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during the war, the novel captures both the horrifying acts and the beautiful deeds of which mankind is capable. Here is Isabel Allende at her masterful best.

The Japanese Lover

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#hardcover #fiction #ya #contemporary #middlegrade #kirakira #japanese #cynthiakadohata #translated #life

California

Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem glittering and shining. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering in the future.

Kira-Kira

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HC no DJ. #hardcover #japanese #aapi #thanksgiving #childrens #kids #juvenilefiction #fiction #holidays #family

Japanese American girl describes how Obaachan (Grandmother) makes Thanksgiving special. Anyone whose family has expanded this traditional American holiday to include their cultural heritage will appreciate this story and treasure the memories it evokes.

Thanksgiving at Obaachan's

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#fiction #suspensethrillers #suspense #thriller #paperback #japanese

New Mexico

A Novel of Suspense

Shinju

487. #hardcover #Japanese #relocation #women #California

Idaho

In her 38th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel creates a powerful, moving portrayal of families divided, lives shattered and a nation torn apart by prejudice during a shameful episode in recent American history.
A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. It was the early 1920s and Masao had dreams for the future--and a fascination with the politics and opportunities of a world that was changing every day. Twenty years later, his eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.
From the ship, she went directly to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world--a world of barbeques, station wagons and college. Her cousins in California had become more American than Japanese. And much to Hiroko's surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new. But in spite of him, and all her promises to her father, Hiroko longs to go home. At college in Berkeley, her world is rapidly and unexpectedly filled with prejudice and fear.
On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. Terrified, begging to go home, she is nonetheless ordered by her father to stay. He is positive she will be safer in California than at home, and for a brief time she is--until her entire world cavesin.
On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will. Takeo and his family are given ten days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face their destinies there. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives. Hiroko and her uncle's family go first to Tanforan, and from there to the detention center at Tule Lake. This extraordinary novel tells what happened to them there, creating a portrait of human tragedy and strength, divided loyalties and love. It tells of Americans who were treated as foreigners in their own land. And it tells Hiroko's story, and that of her American family, as they fight to stay alive amid the drama of life and death in the camp at Tule Lake.
With clear, powerful prose, Danielle Steel portrays not only the human cost of that terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them. Set against a vivid backdrop of war and change, her thirty-eighth bestselling novel is both living history and outstanding fiction, revealing the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government...and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive.

Silent Honor

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A 2012 Weinstein 
334 pgs #war #love #romance #japanese #paperback 

1950's Japanese Love Story 

Seeking solace in the Malaysian plantations of her childhood after grueling World War II experiences, criminal prosecutor Yun Ling Teoh discovers a Japanese garden and its enigmatic tender, an exiled Japanese royal gardener who reluctantly accepts her as an apprentice. By the author of The Gift of Rain. Original.

P71 The Garden of Evening Mists

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Massachusetts

#hardcover #japanese #thriller #yafiction #supernatural #darkcomedy 

18th printing, 1990; has light wear to cover/edges, else book is clean/tight. It is in excellent condition. #paperback #japanese #
Childrens 

Washington

A collection of stories with a Japanese flavor which will delight any child in any country, and at the same time, arouse a sympathetic understanding to the culture and ways of another land.

Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories

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#paperback #manga #anime #comics #japanese written in Japanese and printed in Japan

Indiana

Nickelodeon

A 1969 Grove Press
Underlining & Notes in front cover.
165 pgs #paperback #japanese #translated #postwar 

Translated from Japanese 

Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose Utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. "In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both."--Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor

P81 Personal Matter

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#paperback #fiction #chinese #historicalfiction #history #japan #japanese #ww2 

Shortly before World War II, a Chinese man, sent to Japan to recover from tuberculosis, meets a lovely Japanese girl and four older residents, in a story of passion and sacrifice

The Samurai's Garden

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Japanese Book 

#paperback #fiction #historicalfiction #romance #asianamerican #WWII #sanfrancisco #japanese #bookclub #bookclubbook

New Jersey

A Novel

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family -- like thousands of other Japanese Americans -- are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.

#hardcover #debut #fiction #japanese #novella #translated 

An underground world. A murder. An international phenomenon. Snakes and Earrings. . . . Describing a world as amoral and fascinating as the landscapes of Less Than Zeroand Trainspotting, this novel about a young woman living in the violent world of Japan’s underground youth culture is both shocking and strangely beautiful.Enchanted by the snake-like tongue of a stranger called Ama, nineteen-year-old Lui takes a walk into another side of life. On the Tokyo streets, she finds a world where pain bleeds into pleasure. Where day fades into night. And where right turns into wrong. An international bestseller. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize. Translated by David James Karashima. “A powerful portrait of the post-bubble generation.” —The New York Times "Snakes and Earringswon't get you arrested, but as you flip these pages, don't be surprised if you're looking over your shoulder.... Hitomi Kanehara fearlessly takes us into a world as inexplicable as Narnia and conveys us with graceful tenacity into the labyrinthine realm that makes up renegade Japanese youth culture." --J. T. Leroy

Snakes and Earrings

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Slight edge wear and spine crease. #paperback #japan #kimono #childrens #kids #juvenilefiction #livingbook #fiction #culture #japanese 

Suki's favorite possession is her blue cotton kimono. A gift from her obachan, it holds special memories of her grandmother's visit last summer. And Suki is going to wear it on her first day back to school --- no matter what anyone says.When it's Suki's turn to share with her classmates what she did during the summer, she tells them about the street festival she attended with her obachan and the circle dance that they took part in. In fact, she gets so carried away reminiscing that she's soon humming the music and dancing away, much to the delight of her entire class!Filled with gentle enthusiasm and a touch of whimsy, Suki's Kimono is the joyful story of a little girl whose spirit leads her to march --- and dance --- to her own drumbeat.

Suki's Kimono

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Was a gift. #paperback #manga #anime #fiction #japan #japanese #shounen #shounenjump 

Arizona

Kafka wants to clean up kaiju, but not literally! Will a sudden metamorphosis stand in the way of his dream? With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force and wants another shot at achieving his childhood dream of eliminating the kaiju. But how can he expect to fight kaiju when he suddenly becomes one himself?! Kafka hopes to one day keep his pact with his childhood friend Mina to join the Japan Defense Force. But while she’s out neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is stuck cleaning up the aftermath of her battles. Now, thanks to a sudden eligibility rule change, Kafka has one more shot at realizing his dream. There’s just one problem—he’s suddenly turned into a kaiju! And even worse, he’s made the Defense Force’s neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No. 8.

Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1

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#paperback #japanese #translated #fiction

Hilarious, strange and moving in equal measure - a Japanese multi-million-copy smash hit about the struggles of a pair of young manzai stand-up comedians Tokunaga is a young comedian struggling to make a name for himself when he is taken under the wing of Kamiya, who is either a crazy genius or perhaps just crazy. Kamiya's indestructible confidence inspires Tokunaga, but it also makes him doubt the limits of his own talent, and dedication to Manzai comedy. Spark is a story about art and friendship, about countless bizarre drunken conversations and how far it's acceptable to go for a laugh. A novel about comedy that's as moving and thoughtful as it is funny, it's already been a sensation in Japan.

Gretel Ehrlich

Heart Mountain

J. P. Romney

The Monster on the Road Is Me

Robert L. Duncan

Dragons at the gate

Movie

Memoirs of a Geisha

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Janet Mitsui Brown (Illustrator)

Thanksgiving at Obaachan's

Laura John Rowland

Shinju

Danielle Steel

Silent Honor

Tan Twan Eng

P71 The Garden of Evening Mists

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

J. P. Romney

The Monster on the Road Is Me

Florence Sakade (Editor)

Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories

Dowman Sayman

Nickelodeon

Kenzaburo Oe; John Nathan (Translator)

P81 Personal Matter

Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai's Garden

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Japanese Book

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Japanese Book

Unknown

Japanese Book

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Hitomi Kanehara; David Karashima (Translator)

Snakes and Earrings

Chieri Uegaki; Stéphane Jorisch (Illustrator)

Suki's Kimono

Naoya Matsumoto

Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1

Naoki Matayoshi

Spark