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Blue bamboo : tales of fantasy and romance

Bødy

As indicated by the title, Bødy is a collection of horror stories, all thematically linked to people’s perception of their bodies, and the consequences of vanity and low self-esteem. In the vein of the psychological suspense of the Twilight Zone, each story ends with a shock, leaving the reader unsettled …

Botchan

The setting is Japan’s deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys’ school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; …

Botchan

The setting is Japan’s deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys’ school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; …

Botchan

Boy

A collection of three short stories features two brothers at a school sports day, another pair of brothers who use astronomy to cope with the loss of their father, and an uncool teenage boy who meets a biker girl in Kyoto.

Brave story

With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy named Wataru knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny. With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a series of …

Breaking into Japanese literature : seven modern classics in parallel text

This is a graded reader for Japanese literature. There are 7 stories, 4 by Soseki and 3 by Akutagawa, representing 3 different reading levels. In each case the story is presented in Japanese and English with a running dictionary of terms used.

Building waves

In her early forties, Kyoko has no compunction about getting what she wants. But when she begins a relationship with a traditional and conformist man, the result in Building Waves is uncomfortable, comical, and ultimately fatal.

Bullfight

In post-Second World War Japan, Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, sets out to organise a bullfight. The project starts drowning in unforeseen logistical issues, while Tsugami’s relationship with his lover is also going under. Alone and focused, Tsugami persists in his bullfight plans, in a desperate and existential struggle….

Calling you

This unique, beautifully drawn collection of stories examines the hidden truths behind what makes us truly human. In this manga, a girl creates a cell phone in her imagination, from which she can communicate with others… A young boy discovers his new friend has the power to heal others-and learns …

Celebration in darkness : selected poems of Yoshioka Minoru. Strangers’ sky : selected poems of Iijima Koichi

Chickens

Child of darkness : Yoko and other stories

Child of fortune

Childhood years : a memoir

Set against the modernization of Japan and World War II, the personal diary of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s early years offers a moving look at one of Japan’s modern novelists.

Chronicle of my mother

Selections.

City of refuge

Koji killed 2 gangsters for the woman he loves, for Makiko. The sensation of the murder on Koji’s hands is still fresh. Now he’s running from the police as well as the mob.