Orkin, Ivan.

Summary: "The end-all-be-all guide to ramen from Ivan Orkin, the iconoclastic New York-born owner of Tokyo's top ramen shop. While scores of people line up outside American ramen powerhouses like Momofuku Noodle Bar, chefs and food writers in the know revere Ivan Orkin's traditional Japanese take on ramen. Ivan Ramen chronicles Orkin's journey from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to the chef and owner of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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Stanley, Amy

Summary: "A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020

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Higashimura, Akiko

Summary: "Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan. So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully single, and she spends most of her nights drinking with her two best friends in their favorite pub....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2018

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Ryan, Muchael

Summary: Join intrepid chefs Michael Ryan and Luke Burgess on the best sort of culinary adventure - one that could happen only in Tokyo. From daybreak to late night, discover the creative people and compelling stories behind the restaurants, bars and tea houses of the world's most exciting food destination. This is a book as much for people travelling to the city as it is for those with an appreciation...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2019

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Otomo, Katsuhiro

Summary: In the 21st century, the once-glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruins, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic giant, Akira. Now a wasteland of rubble and anarchy, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, a ragtag group of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira and his mad prime minister, Tetsuo, an angry teen with immense powers of his own -- and equally immense twisted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2001

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Jaffe, Eric.

Summary: "From an 'illuminating and entertaining' (The New York Times) historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Yazawa, Ai

Summary: Things aren't looking good for Blast. Shin's attempts to reestablish ties with his own family turns out to be a horrible failure, and before he can connect Nana with her unknown little sister, Shin gets arrested.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009

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Ishida, Sui

Summary: In the world of Tokyo Ghoul, sometimes the only way to fight monsters is to become one... The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its ultimate predator. Their newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human investigators with a Ghoul's Kagune,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2019

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Yazawa, Ai

Summary: "Tragedy strikes as the Search Weekly team takes their snooping too far! Hounded to the limit by remorseless reporters, Ren spins his car off the icy road in a horrible accident that will change the course of everyone's future" -- p. [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: What Did You Eat Yesterday is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts the romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015

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Umino, Chika.

Summary: "Professor Hanamoto is off in Mongolia on a research trip, and Hagu is having a hard time coping. The gang do their best to help her out, especially Takemoto. But as graduation threatens to alter their friendships forever, Hagu begins to turn toward Morita. Love triangles-- who says you don't learn math in art school?"--Page 4 of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010

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Yazawa, Ai

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: "Madam surprises Shiro with a gift that he quickly puts to good use. Shino asks Shiro for advice on how to keep her new husband fit and healthy. Kayoko invites Shiro to a cherry blossom picnic, at which Shiro is rescued from romantic disaster. Kenji gets a spiffy new suit for his birthday, and the couple considers the implications of a new same-sex partnership certificate law in Shibuya..." --

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2016

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Ishida, Sui

Summary: ""The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from the ultimate predator. Its newest weapon in this hidden war is an experimental procedure that implants human agents with a Kagune--the Ghoul organ of predation--giving them Ghoul powers and abilities. But both the procedure and the newly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2017

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Umino, Chika.

Summary: "Takemoto, a sophomore art student in Tokyo, thinks his greatest worries in life are finding ways to eat more meat and getting to class on time. But with friends like his, life is never going to be that tame"--Page 4 of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008

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Takamatsu, Misaki

Summary: "While Mitsumi adjusts to big city life, her cheerful and forthright personality brings joy to her classmates. Now that she's getting the hang of high school, her circle expands even further."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2021

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Denson, Abby

Summary: Tokyo is an astonishing world unto itself—a city for lovers of Japanese culture, fashion and great food that mixes the best of old and new. In Cool Tokyo Guide, Abby Denson, renowned graphic artist, and author, takes you on a personal tour of Tokyo's coolest sites including: A restaurant where clowns drive robots and mermaids ride on sharks Fantastic shops for lovers of everything from vintage...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2018

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Summary: Travel journalist Rudy Maxa and Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa present three episodes that highlight three distinct regions of Japan, focusing on the nation's food and food producers. From the ramen of the northern island of Hokkaido, to the sushi of Tokyo, to the Wagyu beef raised on the southern island of Kyushu, food is a window on the soul of Japan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Higashimura, Akiko

Summary: "At last, Rinko's found it--the happy, comfortable relationship she's dreamt of. She and Hayasaka-san have moved into an apartment together, and her best friends have wished her well. Everything is going smoothly...until those same best friends show up breathless at her doorstep with the biggest four-alarmer yet: Key's gone missing, and Rinko may be the only one who can find him and bring him...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2019

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Ōtomo, Katsuhiro

Summary: "Tetsuo, an unstable youth with immense paranormal abilities of his own, has done the unthinkable: he has released Akira and set into motion a chain of events that could once again destroy the city and drag the world to the brink of Armageddon. Resistance agents and an armanda of government forces race against the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his unstoppable destructive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2010

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Lawson, Ted W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1943

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Summary: When Mei is swept away to the Meiji era, she finds memory fuzzy and surrounded by handsome historical men! With her ability to see spirits being sought after and her heart drawn towards these men, will she ever get home or stay stuck in the past?

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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