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41) While I was away
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Dang dai wen xue volume 125
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of [Infection Game]. The criminal-investigation team made of three persons, Katsumata Kensaku, Kurata Syuji, and Hayama Noriyuki, deals with different investigations, but they start to see that they all have one common point. Spin-off of the Himekawa Reiko series. The novel was adapted to TV and film which became a top rated show and a box office hit.
43) The big wave
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English
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His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.
44) Zero sum
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death. But the best route to the minister is through his gorgeous Italian wife Maria, a route that puts Rain on a collision...
47) Shogun: Part II
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures...
49) Erika-san
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
After falling in love with Japan as a little girl, Erika becomes a teacher and fulfills her childhood dream by moving to a remote Japanese island.
50) The fox woman
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In a novel set in medieval Japan, a young fox kit becomes enamored with a Japanese nobleman and will stop at nothing, even magic and sorcery, to win his heart.
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Series
Keep your hands off Eizouken! volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Midori loves to design worlds. Tsubame loves to animate. Sayaka loves to make money! And at Shibahama High, they call them Eizouken--a three-girl club determined to produce their own spectacular science fiction anime! But with no budget from their school and a leaky warehouse for a studio, Eizouken is going to have to work hard and use their imagination...the one thing they've got plenty of!"--
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English
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"Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her...
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 92
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"There is something terribly wrong at your ninja friend Nada's magical dojo in Japan. Nada believes there is an ancient curse so powerful that it is killing her grandmother. YOU are a courageous and skilled ninja, but the threats to Nada's dojo will take all of your skills. Will you be a match for the shugenda warrior priests who hide in the rural mountainside? Keep your friends close, and your shuriken closer"--
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Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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1st Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Children
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
Storytime @ Home: Summer Olympics
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Children
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
Storytime @ Home: Summer Olympics
Description
A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
Author
Series
Wink books (J.C. Phillipps) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Although ninjas should be silent and use stealth, Wink finds his enthusiasm gets him into trouble with his teacher until he finds the perfect way to express both traits.
60) Moshi moshi
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A young boy reluctantly accompanies his older brother to Japan, but after spending the summer visiting his pen pal and learning about that country's customs, he is glad that he went.
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