Genre: Fiction
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The summer of ubume
In Japanese folklore, a ghost that arise from the burial of a pregnant woman is an Ubume. The Summer of Ubume is the first of Japan’s hugely popular Kyogokudo series, which has 9 titles and 4 spinoffs thus far. Akihiko “Kyogokudo” Chuzenji, the title’s hero, is an exorcist with a twist: he doesn’t blieve in…
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Strangers
When jaded 48-year-old scriptwriter Harada visits Tokyo’s old entertainment district where he grew up, he encounters a likeable working man who is the spitting image of his dead father. Lonely, nostalgic, and willing to believe the unbelievable, Harada follows the mysterious man, embarking on a bittersweet journey into the womb of a city whose living…
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White-haired melody
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Selected poems of Inoue Yasushi
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Loups-garous
In a future where nothing is as it seems, can old legends come true?
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Evening clouds
A “snapshot” of daily life in 1960s Tokyo.
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Child of darkness : Yoko and other stories
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Chronicle of my mother
Selections.
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Usurper of the sun
The mysterious Builders have brought humanity to the edge of extinction; can they be reasoned with, or must they be destroyed? Aki Shiraishi is a high school student working in the astronomy club and one of the few witnesses to an amazing event. Someone is building a tower on the planet Mercury. Soon, the Builders…
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Taken captive : a Japanese POW’s story
On January 25, 1945, Private Ooka Shohei of the Japanese Imperial Army was captured by American forces in the Philippines. Near death from starvation and acute malaria, he was nursed back to health by his captors and shipped off to a POW camp. Taken Captive is his powerful and poignant account of life as a…