Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

The Teaching of Buddha

Eleanor Coerr

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Based on a true story, Hiroshima-born Sadako is told that she has the atom bomb disease, leukemia; thus she turns to her native beliefs by making a thousand paper cranes so the gods will grant her one wish to be well again.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

9d6211c4-125f-43a8-8899-757220533e9a-1

Florence Sakade

Yoshisuke Kurosaki

Yoshio Hayashi

California

Follows from our classic and immensely popular Japanese Children's Favorite Stories

Japanese Children's Favorite Stories

a31cc516-eaad-4047-a6da-e3c7caa1f17a-1

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Cherry Blossom Book

After Pearl Harbor the Canadian government confiscates the possessions of all Japanese families and they are forcibly moved to small impoverished communities, including ten-year-old Michiko, her parents, and the new baby on the way.

Cherry Blossom Winter

3d5cc9e6-09f5-426c-bd53-ecaca2e0e84d-1

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

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

aeecd170-6529-4f71-9778-b1374f9bec41-1

This book will be removed from listings 11/29!

This book was used for a college course. There is a damaged inside page where a nameplate with info has been removed (pictured.) Otherwise in very good condition. Pages intact and clean.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Utah

This gorgeous guide to Japanese life chronicles more than 60 native Japanese objects. Each object featured is accompanied by detailed text describing its historical significance and place in everyday Japanese life. You'll learn about the origins and uses of everything from folding paper fans to lacquerware combs to ceramic tea bowls. The perfect introduction to Japan,Things Japaneseoffers an innovative look into this diverse and fascinating culture.

Things Japanese (LAST CHANCE!)

a065b94a-a48a-4e91-a76e-6c4abc95b9d3-1

David Guterson

Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award

Maryland

A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PEN/Faulkner Award Winner *  A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense--one that leaves us shaken and changed. 

"Haunting .... A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper." --Los Angeles Times

San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies.  But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. 
 
In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

Snow Falling on Cedars

f59e1d5d-0c49-4c6d-9787-7eb6341a1a5c-1

Has one mark on the side and slight jacket curling at the top. Otherwise excellent. Some other books in the series are available, DM if interested in a bundle!

 #hardcover #adventure #fantasy #japan #japanese #samurai #youngadult #historicalfiction #historicalfantasy #fiction

Colorado

Tales of the Otori Book Two

Adopted by an Otori Lord, orphan Takeo rises to become a closely held member of the Tribe and finds his love for Maruyama heir Shirakawa Kaede challenged by dissembling clans and fractured allegiances.

Grass for His Pillow

f1e23a96-da36-4c57-9382-4a8ddcd5a9a5-1

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

Kentucky

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

9f5a6447-c8db-412c-82e1-cede1c4a4742

Apolo Anton Ohno

Be Greater Than Yesterday

"Zero regrets. It''s a philosophy not just about sport but about life. School, business, academics, love--anything and everything. It''s complicated and yet not. You have to figure out who it is you want to be. Not what you want to be--who. There has to be a vision, a dream, a plan. Then you chase that with everything you''ve got."

Over three consecutive Olympic games, Apolo Ohno has come to symbolize the very best of the competitive spirit--remaining equally gracious in victory and defeat, always striving to improve his performance, and appreciating the value of the hard work of training as much as any reward it might bring. In Zero Regrets, Apolo shares the inspiring personal story behind his remarkable success, as well as the hard-won truths and strategies he has discovered in good times and bad.

Raised by his single father, an immigrant from Japan who often worked twelve-hour days, the young Apolo found it difficult to balance his enormous natural gifts as an athlete with an admittedly wild, rebellious streak. After making a name for himself as a promising young speed skater, his career was almost over before it began when his lack of preparation caused him to finish last at the U.S. Olympic trials in 1998. A life-changing week of solitary soul-searching at the age of fifteen led him to recommit himself to his training, and at the 1999 world junior championships he won first place overall--one of the most remarkable turnarounds in sports history. From that moment on, the world of speed skating had a new champion and Apolo was on his way to legendary status.

Much more than an account of races won and lost, Zero Regrets is a compelling portrait of a father-and-son relationship that deepened over time and was based on respect, love, and unshakable faith in each other. For the first time, Apolo reveals what he knows about his long-absent mother; he makes us feel what it is like to face the best competitors on the planet with the eyes of millions of fans upon you; and he shares his secrets for achieving total focus and mental toughness, secrets that can be applied in situations well beyond sports. We learn the details of the unbelievably intense workout and diet that he endured while training for the 2010 Winter Olympics, a regime that literally reshaped his body and led to some of his most thrilling victories.

In this deeply personal and entertaining book, Apolo shows how we can all come closer to living with zero regrets. While Apolo''s own journey may be unique, the insights he has gleaned along the way have the power to help us all feel like champions every day.

*** 

 

Nine days after dropping me off, Dad came to pick me up.

In that call from the pay phone, I hadn''t said anything to him about what decision I had made. On the car ride back home, I told him. "I want to try this," I said.

"Are you willing," he asked, "to really put forth a true effort? From the bone?"

I told my father: "I want to skate."

With clarity of purpose, everything suddenly seemed different. I didn''t just want to skate--I loved it. I realized, too, that while I had to want to buy into the training, the discipline, the self-sacrifice, I needed direction and guidance, too. You truly can''t get there by yourself. I needed not only to truly and profoundly depend upon Dad for help but also to welcome those--coaches, trainers, others--who could help me along the way. . . .

I was also making promises to myself and writing them in my journal:

I''m not going to mess it up this time. When I go home, I really am going to be the different person I decided in Iron Springs I would be. I know what I want to do. I want to be the best in the world.

I didn''t know quite yet how I would get there. But I was clear, and I had no doubt-- that''s what I was after.

--From Zero Regrets

Zero Regrets

8f85598a-abfd-46c8-acd6-0ba8cb96c6ad-1

Great condition small hardcover.

#decluttering #japanese

New Jersey

The Japanese art of decluttering and organizing 

The life-changing magic of tidying up

#paperback #Kanji #Japanese #practice #katakana

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

World Languages

Campus Japanese Kanji Practice Notebook 

A. B. Mitford

North Carolina

Illustrated Edition

Thrilling Japanese stories of vampires, ghosts and renegade samurai.

Step back through the mists of time to ancient Japan, where wandering samurai seek revenge for the death of their master, the red-eyed spectres of an executed man and his wife haunt a palace, and wild animals have great power over men. This collection of classic folktales, which range from adventures to mysteries and ghost stories, is beautifully illustrated with lavish art that evokes this magical time and place.

Tales of the Samurai includes these legendary stories:

 * The Forty-Seven Ronin
 * The Vampire cat of Nabeshima
 * Kazuma's Revenge
 * The Prince and the Badger
 * The Ghost of Sakura

Tales of the Samurai

e5f4664c-9b1c-4bdc-a40f-a5a38d6f12ca-1

#hardcover #japan #japanese #healthyeating #livelong #japanesefood #cooking #tokyo #womenshealth 

Texas

Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen

What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in their twenties? Wouldn't you want to know their extraordinary secret? Japanese-born Naomi Moriyama reveals the secret to her own high-energy, successful lifestyle–and the key to the enduring health and beauty of Japanese women–in this exciting new book. The Japanese have the pleasure of eating one of the most delicious, nutritious, and naturally satisfying cuisines in the world without denial, without guilt…and, yes, without getting fat or looking old. As a young girl living in Tokyo, Naomi Moriyama grew up in the food utopia of the world, where fresh, simple, wholesome fare is prized as one of the greatest joys of life. She also spent much time basking in that other great center of Japanese food culture: her mother Chizuko's Tokyo kitchen. Now she brings the traditional secrets of her mother's kitchen to you in a book that embodies the perfect marriage of nature and culinary wisdom–Japanese home-style cooking. If you think you've eaten Japanese food, you haven't tasted anything yet. Japanese home-style cooking isn't just about sushi and raw fish but good, old-fashioned everyday-Japanese-mom's cooking that's stood the test of time–and waistlines–for decades. Reflected in this unique way of cooking are the age-old traditional values of family and the abiding Japanese love of simplicity, nature, and good health. It's the kind of food that millions of Japanese women like Naomi eat every day to stay healthy, slim, and youthful while pursuing an energetic, successful, on-the-go lifestyle. Even better, it's fast, it's easy, and you can start with something as simple as introducing brown rice to your diet. You'll begin feeling the benefits that keep Japanese women among the youngest-looking in the world after your very next meal! If you're tired of counting calories, counting carbs, and counting on being disappointed with diets that don't work and don't satisfy, it's time to discover one of the best-kept and most delicious secrets for a healthier, slimmer, and long-living lifestyle. It's time to discover the Japanese fountain of youth….

Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat

2aba009f-60d5-4a4a-b1c5-32b52e9cbffe-1

Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary

Muriel Barbery

Alison Anderson

Witty, philosophical, thought-provoking are just some of the words that describe this book, that spent more than a year on the New York Times bestselling list.  Balance of things are not what they always seems, and sometimes things are exactly as they seem.

The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

23235178-0ab0-41cd-9f4f-9af0670434cd-1

#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

7face540-fd3f-4d4c-a121-4ba47096b3d0-1

Lady Murasaki

Arthur Waley

Vermont

The classic novel of court life in tenth and eleventh-century Japan centers on the exploits of a nobleman known as the shining Genji, son of an emperor, and those of Kaoru, grandson of Genji's best friend.

The Tale of Genji

96f7ebfb-6a0c-433b-8a2a-8dc9838e7834-1

Ronald Himler

Pennsylvania

Sadako, hospitalized with leukemia, races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes in an attempt to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

#war #Japanese #ClintEastwood
#eyewitnessstories #paperback #IwoJima 

Letters from iwo jima

The Letters from Iwo Jima that inspired Clint Eastwood's film

Even the Gods Would Weep

389a7ac2-cc34-47a8-bc8c-c625fb495f2e-1

Techniques for drawing fabulous females forJapanese comics

Missouri

Drawing Fabulous Females for Japanese Comics

Chris Hart's latest entry in his blockbuster series explodes with girl power! From fighters and princesses to magical characters and ordinary schoolgirls, manga features an array of female types, and Hart goes step by step through the techniques for creating them all, so that artists of any level can follow along. His huge cast of characters includes angels of light and darkness, a sushi chef, samurai, shopaholics, a pirate, a judge, athletes, and a veterinarian tending to a sick cute monster. And, since manga girls rarely sit still, aspiring illustrators will learn how to draw them in action, in a variety of situations.

 

Manga Mania(tm): Girl Power!

9d490f22-8fdb-4760-abeb-07cb035d5f67-1

#fiction #paperback #historicalfiction #asianliterature #cultural #literaryfiction #adultfiction #japanese #preworldwar #lydiaminatoya #thestrangenessofbeauty 

"Minatoya offers a tenderly packaged gift. Unwrapping it is a pleasure." --Austin Chronicle


A quietly daring exploration of art, family, culture, and conscience, as three generations of women, American and Japanese, face a strained reunion in pre-World War II Japan. Etsuko and her six-year-old motherless niece return from jazz-age Seattle to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko's mysterious samurai mother. With Japanese militarism mounting, the women must learn to make peace in an absorbing tale where mothers are childless, warriors are pacifists, and beauty is found in the common and the small.

Strangeness of Beauty

01cf3fb4-ac56-49c2-8997-85382d8d54eb-1

Verses by a Former Ambassador

American Senryu

d0d732a1-854b-4176-ba28-bd9e4db80b50-1

Yu Miri

Morgan Giles

Damage to sleeve and cover visible in photos, inside text is beautiful with no writing/highlighting/underlining!

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.

Save this search

Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

The Teaching of Buddha

Eleanor Coerr

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Florence Sakade; Yoshisuke Kurosaki; Yoshio Hayashi

Japanese Children's Favorite Stories

Jennifer Maruno

Cherry Blossom Winter

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Nicholas Bornoff; Michael A. Freeman

Things Japanese (LAST CHANCE!)

David Guterson

Snow Falling on Cedars

Lian Hearn

Grass for His Pillow

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Apolo Anton Ohno

Zero Regrets

Marie Kondo

The life-changing magic of tidying up

Campus

Campus Japanese Kanji Practice Notebook

A. B. Mitford

Tales of the Samurai

Naomi Moriyama; William Doyle

Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat

Berlitz Publishing

Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary

Muriel Barbery; Alison Anderson

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Natalie Dias Lorenzi

Flying the Dragon

Lady Murasaki; Arthur Waley

The Tale of Genji

Ronald Himler

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Kumiko Kakehashi

Even the Gods Would Weep

Christopher Hart

Manga Mania(tm): Girl Power!

Lydia Minatoya

Strangeness of Beauty

James D. Hodgson

American Senryu

Yu Miri; Morgan Giles

Tokyo Ueno Station