Japan

Books that are set in Japan.

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My Tokyo Summer
Hello, Limerence
The Vacation Shift
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Klara and the Sun
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
Japanese Gothic
Dandadan, Vol. 1
Flashlight
Look Back
Exit 8
Water Moon
Family of Spies
Hunchback
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
さよなら絵梨 [Sayonara Eri]
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
博士の愛した数式 [新潮CD]
Kokoro
After Dark
The Memory Police
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Books About Colonialism
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Japan
271 books — 82 voters
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Geisha
34 books — 134 voters

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Women Around the World
1,179 books — 438 voters
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Adventure Travel & Exploration In Asia
346 books — 188 voters


Kobayashi Issa
What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
Kobayashi Issa, Poems

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

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