Literature
From literature in translation to compelling stories set in Japan, China, and beyond--start your journey through rich cultural landscapes and engaging narratives here.
New Releases & Featured Titles
Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!
Gil Asakawa
Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.
Eating Wild Japan
Winifred Bird
A delicious collection of essays, recipes, and practical plant information exploring Japan's thriving culture of foraged foods.
A Shameful Life
Osamu Dazai
A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west as No Longer Human—a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs
Japaneseness
Yoji Yamakuse
Can traditional Japanese life concepts--like loyalty, harmony, meticulousness--make sense in Western societies?
Tokyo Stroll
Gilles Poitras
The ultimate guidebook to walking the streets of Tokyo that Japan lovers and the curious have been waiting for.
The Making of Modern China (vol. 4)
Jing Liu
The fourth volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's move to modernization!
The Korean origins of Japanese ceramics
Tomoka Shibasaki pushes the short story to a new level in A Hundred Years and a Day
