Abe, Julie
Summary: "Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home. Her hopes are quickly dashed when, all too soon, she realizes that life in Japan is just like being in California: her sisters are old enough to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "A young girl finds a way to give the gift of a traditional Japanese garden back to her beloved grandfather and accept a difficult change."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UGEYoshimoto, Banana
Summary: The lives of people in both straight and lesbian relationships, all with connections to a book entitled NP. They include the author's children and the translator's mistress. Written by one of Japan's leading pop writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kadokawa Shoten 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC YOSReibstein, Mark.
Summary: Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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Summary: This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURJean, Emiko
Summary: When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEAFlorence, Debbi Michiko
Summary: When Jasmine and family visit Kabo, the Japanese village where her grandmother grew up, she is homesick and angry with her older sister for not playing with her, but when they start to compromise, they discover ways to bridge their differences. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make a folding fan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLOChurchill, Amanda
Summary: In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEAMiyabe, Miyuki
Summary: 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 seemingly insurmountable obstacles on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. One way or another, the young hero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIYŌe, Kenzaburō
Summary: "[Kogito Choko] returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase rumored to hold documents revealing the details of his father's death during World War II, details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel. Since his youth, renowned novelist Kogito Choko planned to fictionalize his father's fatal drowning in order to fully process the loss. Stricken with guilt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OEDilloway, Margaret.
Summary: The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DILShibutani, Maia
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHIJean, Emiko
Summary: Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in, it isn₂t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it₂s always been Izumi, or Izzy, because 'It₂s easier this way,' and her mom (and her trusty terrier sidekick, Tamagotchi) against the world. But then Izzy discovers a clue to her previously unknown father₂s identity, and he₂s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JEAOnda, Riku
Summary: "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." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction OndaYū, Miri
Summary: In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. She summons Korean shamans to hold an intense, transcendent ritual to connect with Lee Woo-cheol. When his ghost appears,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023