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Genre: Fiction

  • Summer, fireworks, and my corpse

    Coming of age… Right after death…

  • Plainsong

    A nameless, ambitionless office worker finds his small apartment gradually invaded by three other people: all younger than himself, but seemingly no less adrift. The year is 1986, and the strange communal life of this foursome, extending over half a year, makes up the plot, such as it is, of Plainsong, as this ersatz family…

  • The poison ape

    Detective Samejima works alone … because no one will work with him. Shunned by his peers, scorned by his superiors, and feared by the yakuza, “The Shark,” as he is called, works the dangerous Shinjuku section of Tokyo. This second installment of the popular Japanese series finds The Shark embroiled in a conflict among a…

  • Shirobamba : a childhood in old Japan

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

    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…

  • 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…