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Shibutani, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHI

Becker, Harmony

Summary: "When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BEC

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BEC

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABE

Abe, Julie

Summary: When a love potion gone wrong causes Cam to forget his best friend Remy completely, they travel through Tokyo to rediscover his memories, make new ones, and maybe even fall in love all over again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ABE

Takahashi, J. P.

Summary: "The Night Parade is about to begin . . . The ground thunders in Tokyo. A gust of wind blows. The pitter patter of paws and claws draws closer. The air is thick with swirling, swooping demons. It's Eka's favorite evening of the year, the one night she refuses to miss. But it's become harder to travel to Japan now that she's living across the world in New York. Unsure of when she can return next...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAK

Maclear, Kyo

Summary: Children watch in amazement as the bicycle food deliverers of Tokyo stack their noodle bowls like architects, zip through the city like acrobats, and deliver delicious noodles to students, office workers, and families.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAC

Jean, 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?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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Higashino, Keigo

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIG

Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

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Summary: The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series. The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks, and there are rules to follow. In the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAW

Lancet, Barry.

Summary: "Struggling San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie is back in Japan. After wading through the tragedy of the Japantown murders, he and his daughter have returned for a well-earned vacation. Checking in at the P.I. firm he inherited from his father, he's startled by the arrival of an old World War II veteran and his son. The father has come explicitly to see Brodie, and offers up a dark story...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAN

Hamill, Pete

1 hold on 1 copy

Contents: A blues for Yukiko -- The price of everything -- The past is another country -- After the war -- The opponent -- The 48th ronin -- The blue stone -- Samurai -- Running for home -- The magic word -- It's only rock 'n' roll -- Missing in action -- Happy New Year.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1993

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Patterson, James

Summary: Ex-Secret Service agent Cain Lemaire takes a security job in Tokyo. When he discovers a web of corruption, greed, and extortion, he races to find justice the only way a born-and-raised Cajun can do.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PAT

Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

Summary: Café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling magic continues as new patrons journey to the past, experiencing reunions, making amends and revisiting memories. "Tucked within a small back alley in Tokyo is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. The regular patrons know the café's legend by heart: if they follow the rules, they'll be allowed the unique...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press

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Higashino, Keigo

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIG

Itami, Emily

Summary: Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITA

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ITA

Hayder, Mo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAY

Kawakami, Mieko

Summary: Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAW

Griner, Susan

Summary: When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight for survival. Includes information about the Great Kanto Earthquake, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRI

Patterson, James

Summary: "Cain Lemaire is an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. With help from his sister who's working in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. Cain ends up tangling with the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and unraveling a sex slavery ring"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2020

Brown, Waka Takahashi

Summary: When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she cannot understand the basic Japanese they speak to her, they make a drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her grandmother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRO

Higashino, Keigo

Summary: "In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution. In the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beast - a kirin - stands guard over the district from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIG

Miura, Shion

Summary: "After shoplifting some bread one chilly night, former high school track-and-field star kakeru Kurahara runs through the city streets. Though he has grown disillusioned with the sport, he feels as if he could keep running forever. However, his reverie is broken by a mysterious boy on a bike: Haiji Kiyose, a fellow runner who also happens to attend Kakeru's univeristy. impressed by Kakeru's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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Takahashi, Osamu.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2010

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEO

Nakamura, Fuminori

Summary: The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections. But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAK

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