#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 #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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#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

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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 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

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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#paperback #historical #dualpov #fiction #historicalfiction #war #youngadult #japanese 

New York

An "important" (New York Times Book Review), "extraordinary" (Booklist, starred review) novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal, from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat



"A must-read for fans of historical fiction." --Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling author



It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan.



Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother's health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis.



With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone--even each other?



*Don't miss Monica Hesse's New York Times bestselling historical mysteries, Girl in the Blue Coat and They Went Left*

The War Outside

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#hardcover #poetry #japenesepoetry #japan #lovepoems #japanese

Florida

Drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources--including the imperial collections of the Manyoshu and Kokinshu--the poems in this collection are some of the greatest love poems from the Japanese tradition. The poems range in tone from the spiritual longing of an isolated monk to the erotic ecstasy of a court princess--but share the extraordinary simplicity and luminosity of language that marks Kenneth Rexroth's verse style. An introduction by the poet and translator Sam Hamill, the editor of this collection, and short biographies of the poets are included.

The Shambhala Library is a series of exquisitely designed and produced cloth editions of the world's spiritual and literary classics, both ancient and modern. Perfect for collecting or as gifts, each volume features a sewn binding, decorative endsheets, and a ribbon marker--a delightful-to-hold 4 #65533; x 6 #65533; trim size.

Love Poems from the Japanese

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Massachusetts

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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#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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#Europa #HongKong #WWII #Japanese #InternmentCamp #Fiction 

Michigan

Second in the Old Filth trilogy. "An astute, subtle depiction of marriage . . . absolutely wonderful" (The Washington Post).

Acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.
They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English couple of the late 1940s.
As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the fifty-year union of two remarkable people, The Man in the Wooden Hat is a triumph. Fiction of a very high order from a great novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power, it will be read and loved and recommended by all the many thousands of readers who found its predecessor, Old Filth, so compelling and thoroughly satisfying.

"Funny and affecting . . . It's remarkable."--The New York Times Book Review

"The latest occasion to celebrate Gardam . . . [a] superb novel."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR

"Told with quintessentially British humor . . . Gardam's prose is witty and precise."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"It's magnificent. . . . Funny, intelligent and immensely moving."--Kirkus Reviews

The Man in the Wooden Hat

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

New Mexico

A Novel of Suspense

Shinju

Pages are yellowing a bit, else book is clean, tight and is in very good condition.#fiction #fiction #paperback #historicalfiction #japanese #seattle 

Washington

Shortly before World War II, Etsuko returns to Japan with her infant nephew to dwell in the foreboding samurai home of her estranged mother, where she struggles to find inner peace as the world descends into war. A first novel. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

The Strangeness of Beauty

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

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 #Kanji #Japanese #practice #katakana

Illinois

World Languages

Campus Japanese Kanji Practice Notebook 

#paperback  #multi-cultural #middle-grades #japan #japanese #family #relationships 

Virginia

NY Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
 
A young American girl grapples with her Japanese heritage in this "quiet, beautifully moving portrayal of a multicultural family" for middle grade readers (School Library Journal)
 
American-born Skye is a good student and a star soccer player who never really gives any thought to the fact that her father is Japanese. Her cousin, Hiroshi, lives in Japan, and never really gives a thought to his uncle's family living in the United States.
 
Skye and Hiroshi's lives are thrown together when Hiroshi's family, with his grandfather (who is also his best friend), suddenly moves to the U.S. Now Skye doesn't know who she is anymore: at school she's suddenly too Japanese, but at home she's not Japanese enough. Hiroshi has a hard time adjusting to life in a new culture, and resents Skye's intrusions on his time with Grandfather. Through all of this is woven Hiroshi's expertise, and Skye's growing interest in, kite making and competitive rokkaku kite flying.

Flying the Dragon

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#historical #ya #historicalfiction #hotelonthecornerofbitterandsweet  #romeoandjuliet #nytbestseller #Japanese #Chinese #WWII #internmentcamps  Young adult book but adults will enjoy as well.

Maryland

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered in Seattle, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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#paperback #fiction #ya #japanese #WW2 #FBI
Wear to back cover fore-edge, minor wear to fore-edge corners, slight bend to front cover, minor tail ripple front cover (see pics)

S8


Based on Yoshiko Uchida's personal experiences, this is the moving story of one girl's struggle to remain brave during the Japanese internment of World War II. In a bleak and dusty prison camp, eleven-year-old Yuki and her family experience both true friendship and heart-wrenching tragedy. Journey to Topaz explores the consequences of prejudice and the capacities of the human spirit. First published in 1971, this book is now a much loved and widely read classic.

Journey to Topaz

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#nonfiction #memoir #hardcover #biography #nobu #japanese #translated 

a memoir

Nobu

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#hardcover #historicalfiction #japan #japanese #asia #worldwar #war #asianliterature #Tokyo #PearlHarbor #tradition 

""Just remember," Yoshio said quietly to his grandsons. "Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.""
It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers are growing up with their loving grandparents, who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows unusual skill at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of creating hard-carved masks for actors in the Noh theater.
Across town, a renowned sumo master, Sho Tanaka, lives with his wife and their two young daughters: the delicate, daydreaming Aki and her independent sister, Haru. Life seems full of promise as Kenji begins an informal apprenticeship with the most famous mask-maker in Japan and Hiroshi receives a coveted invitation to train with Tanaka. But then Pearl Harbor changes everything. As the ripples of war spread to both families' quiet neighborhoods, all of the generations must put their dreams on hold---and then find their way in a new Japan.
In an exquisitely moving story that spans almost thirty years, Gail Tsukiyama draws us irresistibly into the world of the brothers and the women who love them. It is a world of tradition and change, of heartbreaking loss and surprising hope, and of the impact of events beyond their control on ordinary, decent men and women. Above all, "The Street of a Thousand Blossoms" is a masterpiece about love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of her powers.

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

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#hardcover #japanese #cooking #nourishment #wellness 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Japanese Art of Nourishing Mind, Body, and Spirit

"Candice has created a guide to an ancient, common-sense and approachable way of living. In a crowded wellness space, Kintsugi Wellness truly stands out."-Sophia Amoruso, founder and CEO, Girlboss Where we come from is who we are. And Candice Kumai’s Japanese heritage has guided her journey back to health at every turn. Now, in Kintsugi Wellness, Candice shares what she’s learned and guides us through her favorite Japanese traditions and practices for cultivating inner strength and living a gracious life, interwoven with dozens of recipes for healthy, Japanese-inspired cuisine. Kintsugi Wellness provides the tools we all need to reclaim the art of living well.

Kintsugi Wellness

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

J. P. Romney

The Monster on the Road Is Me

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Robert L. Duncan

Dragons at the gate

Movie

Memoirs of a Geisha

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Monica Hesse

The War Outside

Sam Hamill; Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)

Love Poems from the Japanese

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Janet Mitsui Brown (Illustrator)

Thanksgiving at Obaachan's

Hitomi Kanehara; David Karashima (Translator)

Snakes and Earrings

Jane Gardam

The Man in the Wooden Hat

Danielle Steel

Silent Honor

Laura John Rowland

Shinju

Lydia Yuri Minatoya

The Strangeness of Beauty

Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai's Garden

Florence Sakade (Editor)

Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories

Campus

Campus Japanese Kanji Practice Notebook

Natalie Dias Lorenzi

Flying the Dragon

Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Yoshiko Uchida; Donald Carrick (Illustrator)

Journey to Topaz

Nobuyuki Matsuhisa

Nobu

Gail Tsukiyama; Tsukiyama Gail

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

Candice Kumai

Kintsugi Wellness

Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai's Garden