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1) Naruto
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Whenever Naruto proclaims that he will someday become the Hokage - a title bestowed upon the best ninja in the Village Hidden in the Leaves - no one takes him seriously. Since birth, Naruto has been shunned by his fellow villagers. But their contempt isn't because Naruto is loud-mouthed, mischievous, or because of his ineptitude in the ninja arts, but because there is a demon inside him. When he is assigned to Team 7 - along with his new teammates...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 31
Description
A fisherman's daughter in 1930s Japan rises to become a famous geisha. After training, Sayuri's virginity is sold to the highest bidder, then the school finds her a general for a patron. When he dies, she is reunited with the only man she loved.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ
Pub. Date
2003
Description
A warrior arose 140 years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "black ships," who helped introduce the progressive age known as Meiji and then vanished. This tale begins in the 11th year of Meiji, in Tokyo. With his killer blade, legend-warrior Hitokiri Battosai once helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. It's now 1878, ten years after the bloody Meiji Revolution that marked the end of...
4) One piece
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
When Monkey D. Luffy accidentally gains the power to stretch like rubber at the cost of never being able to swim again, he and his crew of pirate wannabes set off in search of the "One Piece," the greatest treasure in the world.
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Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Cuisine
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Cook Japanese with Tamako is a collection of 54 recipes for simple yet tasty Japanese-style meals suitable for the whole family, from soups and salads that can be quickly and easily put together, meat and seafood dishes that are both hearty and comforting, and desserts that will brighten any table. Insightful short stories and heart-warming anecdotes on daily family life accompany the recipes, making this book perfect for anyone looking to go beyond...
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Series
Publisher
Super Cheap Japan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"This book is perfect for backpackers, budget travelers, families on a tight budget, students and those who are new to Japan. Get the most out of this amazing country, without burning a hole in your wallet" -- From publisher's website.
7) 1Q84
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.
Publisher
Studio Chizu
Pub. Date
2012.
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Description
Hana was a student before she was a mother. Then she met a man, who turned out to be a wolf, and together they built a family. Hana loved her mate fiercely, but fate took him from her, leaving her alone with two unusual kids she didn't know how to raise. This is a mother's journey. Teach your children to chase their dreams - and smile through the tears as they disappear into the world in search of who they will become. Hana wasn't always a mother,...
Author
Publisher
C.E. Tuttle Co
Pub. Date
1997
Description
In this newly revised edition of their classic work, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling evolution of modern Japan from its early pre-history through the post-Cold War period to the collapse of the Bubble Economy in the early 1990s. New findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.
Not merely a chronology of wars, imperial successions, and treaties, A History of Japan provides an in-depth...
Author
Description
From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6.
Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism-a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles.
In many ways, Niles should be as American as apple pie: raised by missionary...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
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 drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
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Series
Magic tree house volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
15) Pachinko
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
Author
Series
I survived volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
A massive earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan while Ben is visiting his late father's hometown, pulling Ben's family apart and leaving him stranded in a strange country during an epic disaster.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales-shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells-and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable...
20) Hiroshima
Author
Description
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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