Yasunari Kawabata

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

When Kikuji is invited to attend a tea ceremony, he is unaware that Chikako has arranged for him to view a prospective bride.

Thousand Cranes

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Haruki Murakami

Just light scuffing on the bottom. Almost like new. 

South Carolina

The tragic death of their best friend has a profound influence on the passionate relationship between Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, and Naoko, an introspective, beauty, as Toru finds himself drawn to an independent, sexually liberated young woman. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Norwegian Wood

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Taiyo Asano has been on his own ever since his parents died. The only one who seems to care for him is his childhood friend and classmate, Mutsumi Yozakura. But Mutsumi has a secret–she is the head of a family of spies!

Taiyo Asano is a super-shy high school student and the only person he can talk to is his childhood friend Mutsumi Yozakura. However, Mutsumi comes from a line of master spies with amazing powers. Her oldest brother, Kyoichiro, is obsessed with Mutsumi and out to kill anyone who gets remotely near her—and his next target is Taiyo! The only way for Taiyo to save himself from Kyoichiro’s murderous clutches is to marry Mutsumi!

Mission: Yozamura Family

Arthur Golden

A Novel

National best seller, Japan's most celebrated geisha, confessions novel.

Memoirs of a Geisha

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Sayaka Murata

Ginny Tapley Takemori

Florida

Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award Longlisted for the Believer Book Award Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits into the rigidity of its work culture only too well. The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of "Smile Mart," she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction--many are laid out line by line in the store's manual--and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less. Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the store for eighteen years. It's almost hard to tell where the store ends and she begins. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action... A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.

Convenience Store Woman

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

From the author of Three Souls and Dragon Springs Road comes a captivating historical novel in which a convoy of student refugees travel across China, fleeing the hostilities of a brutal war with Japan "Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are . . ." China, 1937. When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of students, faculty and staff must walk 1,000 miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the refugees who are at risk; Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure: a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends. The students' common duty to safeguard the Library of Legends creates unexpected bonds. Lian becomes friends and forms a cautious romance with the handsome and wealthy Liu Shaoming. But after one classmate is arrested and another one is murdered, Lian realizes she must escape before a family secret puts her in danger too. Accompanied by Shao and his enigmatic maidservant, Sparrow, Lian makes her way to Shanghai in the hopes of reuniting with her mother. During the journey, Lian learns of the connection between her two companions and a tale from the Library of Legends, The Willow Star and the Prince. This revelation comes with profound consequences, for as the ancient books travel across China, they awaken immortals and guardian spirits who embark on an exodus of their own, one that will change the country's fate forever.

The Library of Legends

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New York

KEEP YOUR ALLIES CLOSE AND YOUR TRAITORS CLOSER!


Budding conqueror Alsrod has proved himself to be one of the most powerful forces in the kingdom upon subjugating the massive Nagurry Prefecture with the help of his powerful job and mentor, Oda Nobunaga. Now he intends to invade the royal capital and install the son of the former king as the sovereign...But can Alsrod trust his newest vassal-who possesses the equally mysterious job of Akechi Mitsuhide-not to pull the rug out from under him and foil his lofty plans?!

A Mysterious Job Called Oda Nobunaga, Vol. 2 (light Novel)

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Inside pages are in very good used condition. Cover has scratches and marks on it. Partially torn back cover


"First published in Japan in 2013 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, as 'Ama-ama to Inazuma' volume 1"--Colophon.

Sweetness and Lightning 1

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Kazuo Umezz

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

The definitive edition, featuring an all-new translation and deluxe hardcover design that reestablish Kazuo Umezz's The Drifting Classroom as a timeless horror classic.

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, a Japanese elementary school is transported into a hostile world where the students and teachers are besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness.

After a disastrous journey to the wasteland beyond the school, Sho and the rest of the surviving students return to their fortress, only to discover an even deadlier danger waiting for them. Former friends must fight a final battle as Kazuo Umezz's horror classic careens toward an epic conclusion!

The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition, Vol. 3

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Gido Amagakure

Ohio

Tsugumi Ohba

Obata Takeshi

Winderful Manga! It’s in new condition and in Japanese dub.

Pennsylvania

Japanese Dub

A high school kid found the "death book" belonging to the Goddess of Death. To rid the world of criminals, he began to write their names in the book. These criminals mysterious death prompted blanketed investigations. Highly rated comic. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Death Note (Japanese Dub)

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Osamu Tezuka

Japanese book. Reads right to left, rare and unique  800 pages 

Tennessee

Previously published in three installments, the entire run of comic master Osamu Tezuka's enduring classic is herewith available in one volume at a new affordable price. The lauded adventures of a young swordsman and his rogue sidekick that also inspired the cult video game Blood Will Tell have never been as accessible. A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics - lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan. Like an unforgettable road movie, Dororo reaches deeper than its swashbuckling surface and offers a thoughtful allegory of becoming what one is, for nobody is born whole.

Dororo

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A young girl named Chiyo moves from her small town in Yoroido to the big city to become a geisha. However, Chiyo misses her family, and an older geisha is determined to destroy her.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.

Koushi Tachibana

Tsunako

Paperback Light Novel volume 1 of Date A Live. Some cover wear,store stamp on 1st page, otherwise in good shape! =)

Michigan

Dead-End Tohka

A little meet-cute in a decimated city

April 10. The first day of school. Shido Itsuka is rudely awoken by his personal alarm clock--his little sister. It's shaping up to be another typical day...well, as typical as it gets on a planet plagued by massive spatial quakes. Little does Shido know, however, his life is about to take a sudden turn when he encounters the source of this destructive phenomenon--a girl his age, apparently known as a Spirit. Turns out, there are only two ways he can stop her from unleashing hell on the world: Eliminate her by force or placate her...by taking her out on a date and making her fall in love with him!

Date a Live, Vol. 1 (light Novel)

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Shusaku Endo

Martin Scorsese

William Johnston

Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of Books Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece.

Silence

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*Korean Language Edition* - Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings, and a cool page ribbon - ISBN: 9788937487927

New Jersey

Murakami Haruki's new novel, 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage', is an instant bestseller in Korea. At the age of 36, Tazaki Tsukuru looks back at his life and his four friends at college, each named after a color. His own name meaning "colorless." He has lived a dull life, and now he constantly contemplates dying while still alive. When he meets a woman, he begins to explore his feelings of rejection. World renowned author Murakami Haruki's latest novel. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (*Korean Edition*)

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Keigo Higashino

Nan-Ju Kim

Giraffe Wings (Detective Kaga #9) by Higashino Keigo (2017, Hardcover/Dust Jacket) *Korean Language Edition* - Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings/borrower card; piece of back flap cut out - Golden page ribbon - ISBN: 9788990982674

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Giraffe Wings (*Korean Edition*)

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#horimiya #japan #anime #manga #paperback 

The sweet "aww"-inspiring tale of school life continues!! So...what exactly are Yuki and Tooru? A cute moment between Tooru's not-quite-girlfriend and the helpless physics teacher Nakamine lead to new realizations for both Tooru...and their teacher Yasuda?! Meanwhile, Sengoku's worried about getting closer to Akane--because he's just not stupid silly enough for him...! And with Valentine's Day fast approaching, the members of the HoriMiSawa triangle are all stressed out about making the perfect chocolates!!

Horimiya, Vol. 15

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#hardcover #brickbook #beetles #japan #import #children #science #bugs

Hawaii

Kabutomushi

The "memoirs" of one of Japan's most celebrated geishas describes how, in 1929, as a little girl, she is sold into slavery, her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha, the impact of World War II, and her struggle to reinvent herself to win the man she loves. Reissue. (A Columbia Pictures film, directed by Rob Marshall, releasing Winter 2005, starring Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, & Gong Li) (Historical Fiction)

Chie Shinohara

First printing 
Spine unbroken and pages clean. 
Slight yellowing due to age, otherwise in good condition.

I have other volumes if you wish to bundle. 

Yuri, a teen of the 21st century, has been transported to ancient Anatolia as part of a scheme by the evil Nakia, Queen of the Hittites. Only the intervention of Nakia's stepson, Prince Kail, saved Yuri from the Queen's bloodthirsty intentions. As an unintended consequence, the people of the kingdoms of Anatolia have embraced Yuri as the incarnation of the great war-goddess Ishtar.

Nakia's evil sister, Nadia, schemes to help Kail's archenemy, the Prince of Darkness! As the North Star blazes in the sky, Kail and his forces struggle to reach Mittani in time to rescue Yuri from becoming one of the dark prince's courtesans. Will they arrive in time to send Yuri back to modern-day Japan?

Red River, Vol. 7

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Set in Japan, Luce's playful, tender stories--reminiscent of Haruki Murakami and Aimee Bender--tip into the fantastical, plumb the power of memory, and measure the human capacity to love. The award-winning narratives in this mesmerizing debut trace the lives of ex-pats, artists, and outsiders as they seek to find their place in the world. Hana Sasaki beguiles and surprises: stories include an oracular toaster, a woman who grows a tail, and a most unusual kind of sex reassignment.

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