Japanese books

If you're wondering where to start with Japanese literature, these are the best Japanese books across sci-fi, mystery, literary fiction, and more.

Our recommendations for your autumn reading list.

Japanese Novels & Books about Japan to read before visiting. Books on history, culture, the best Japanese fiction, & fantasy novels.

These are the books we recommend before visiting the land of the rising sun, Japan. 1. If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura2. Before the Coff...

Japanese literature has rapidly gained popularity in the West and for good reason too. Japanese authors seem to write with an elegant, often ethereal quality, no matter what the subject matter is. Now let me

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light, streaming through the windows, so bright you have to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness; becoming unstable, untethered. As the…

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This book is the definitive guide to applying the principles of wabi sabi to transform every area of your life, and finding happiness right where you are.

If there's one nation that loves its cats, it's... well, probably Ancient Egypt, but they're gone. So, now, it's Japan. Japan and cats go together like Murakami and Kafka. In Japanese culture and mythology, cats