London: Pushkin Children's Books/Pushkin Press, 2015. Mika Provata-Carlone (illustrations). Softcover. A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body’s water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite; a...... More

Richmond: Curzon Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 69. This is the first full-length presentation of Japan's pre-industrial fishing culture and a careful application of anthropological method to historical research. Shows that Tokugawa Japan's fishing villages were critical to Japan's economic development, being..... More

London: Faber and Faber, 2018. Megan Backus (tr.). New Paperback Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When..... More

Guilford: The Lyons Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More

Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952. William A. Bostick (catalogue design), Sylvester Luca (photos), Leo Teholiz (map of Japan). Second Edition. Paperback, Staple-Bound. Features map of Japan with indications of localities represented in exhibit. More

Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). Contemporary Japanese Workbook, Volume 2 was created as a supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook for College Students. A workbook which is best used for reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and learning materials introduced in the textbook, it is also..... More

Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. A novel, translated from the Japanese. (Original title Bodaiju). More

London: Vintage Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours..... More

Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1982. Galen Song (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Translated by L. Brown and R. Yoshida. This is Yukawa's autobiography of his early years, written in Japanese when he was fifty years old. It describes his family background and the education and experiences..... More

London: Penguin Classics, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heartrending account of..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. First Edition. Second Printing. Softcover. In this curious collection of scholarly papers, graduate students and professors from various universities (all but two are American) examine the impact of the West on Japanese customs. An essay on the proliferation of Japanese homes for the elderly..... More

London: Vintage Books, 2001. Thomas J. Harper (tr.), Edward G. Seidensticker (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well..... More