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2) Sayonara
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1954
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
During the Korean War, Major Lloyd Gruver falls in love with a Japanese dancer.
Author
Series
Dodsworth volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
48
Description
Dodsworth's duck companion is surprisingly well-behaved during a visit to Tokyo, although he does fall into the koi pond at the Imperial Palace and becomes the center of attention at a Sanja Festival.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night she encounters her now retired former high school teacher "Sensei" in a local bar. Despite the 30 year age difference, their relationship develops and grows into love.
Author
Series
Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
[36] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Shenanigan Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Instead of learning the more practical farming skills his father tries to teach him, Kiyoshi is fascinated by the dragonflies around the rice paddies, which inspire him to craft a lantern that changes his destiny.
Author
Series
Kudo kids volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Accompanying their journalist parents to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, twelve-year-old Andy Kudo and his eleven-year-old sister Mika find themselves immersed in an augmented reality game developed by a former Olympic medalist, that brings players together from all over the world to search Tokyo for virtual medals and clues to the secretive creator's identity.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A skilled assassin eager to escape his profession and the hold of his handler, The Doctor, Kabuto, when The Doctor agrees to let him pay his way out of his contract, finds his final assignment putting him and his family-who have no idea about his double life-in danger.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Description
On a trip to visit her grandparents in Japan, Tessa Miyata inadvertently releases the spirit of an evil samurai god who wants to destroy Tokyo, and stumbles upon a hidden part of the city where gods and mythological creatures walk among humans.
18) Tea with milk
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.
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