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Genre: Fiction

  • A spring like any other : a novel

    Takashi Tsuji is the pseudonym for Seiji Tsutsumi, poet and novelist. This novel offers a look at an affluent Japanese family in disarray.

  • The tale of Saigyo

  • Beyond the blossoming fields

    As a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhea from her husband, she suffers the disgrace of divorce. Forced to bear the humiliation of being treated by male doctors, she resolves to become a doctor herself…

  • Remote control

    Aoyagi, a former delivery-truck driver in the city of Sendai is unemployed– and now he’s the main suspect in the assassination of a newly elected prime minister. As Aoyagi runs, he must negotiate trigger-happy law enforcement while trying to discover why he was set up and who is responsible.

  • Shinjuku shark

    Tokyo detective Samejima is so methodical and unrelenting in hunting criminals and thugs that he is known as the Shinjuku Shark. Feared by the yakuza (Japanese mob), he’s reckless and a loner. But when a serial killer targets the city’s officers with a mysterious weapon, Samejima begins investigating illegal arms dealers and gun traffickers who…

  • Journey beyond Samarkand.

  • Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900, abridged

    This unique anthology is the first representative collection of Japanese literature from one of the most creative periods in Japanese culture, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa. It includes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and drama, and also essays, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works with a number of new…

  • Sayonara, gangsters

    Somewhere in a future time and place, people have no names. Lovers find this inconvenient, so they begin naming each other. The two main characters settle on the following names: the woman is the Nakajima Miyuki Song Book, and the man, who teaches at a poetry school, is Sayonara, Gangsters. Their cat, who prefers milk-and-vodka…

  • Good luck, Yukikaze

    A sequel to Yukikaze. The alien JAM have been at war with humanity for over thirty years…

  • The blade of the courtesans

    A young samurai by the name of Seichiro Matsunaga, trained in swordfighting by non other than the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto, finds himself in Yoshiwara (the pleasure quarters of old Tokyo), per Miyamoto’s dying wishes. In Yoshiwara, Seichiro finds himself defending its denizens against what may be spies from the Yagyu Clan, including one young…