Japan Literature Fiction

狐獣人の奴隷少女とほのぼの2人旅!?ベルトラム王国を出奔し、両親の故郷である東の地を目指して一人旅をするリオ。

Myasako and Takashi are the first in a while to try to hunt down a Korokoshin Monster, and Martin and the Garganfan discover what Jacobson Muldridge has been working on for these past few weeks. He has an invention that has the power to change the course of the whole world's existence, but the Garganfan suspects that it might do more harm than good, and he fears a war could break out between humans and the most powerful beings in the forest.

There was a place far worse than Changi - Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Stubborn Buggers is the story of 12 Australian POWs who fought and survived the battle for Malaya, then captivity and slave labour, followed by the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol.

It is a story of how they dealt with the brutality of the Japanese military police, the feared Kempeitai.

かくして前世と現世が交差し―― リオは美しき春の少女と巡り会う。両親の故郷カラスキを出立したその足で、ラティーファたちの待つ精霊の里を訪れたリオ。

October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the overbearing Acting-Captain Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the indiscriminate nature of conflict. Based on David Piper's own wartime experience in South East Asia, this new edition of a 1959 classic includes a contextual introduction from IWM which sheds new light on the dramatic true events that so influenced its author.

エクセレントコーヒーの契約社員、有田泉は社内の誰もが認める“親切な” 女子社員だ。上司や同僚の好みを完璧に覚えてコーヒーを入れ、つまらない雑用も笑顔でこなす。しかしそれは、エリートばかりの会

Manila, Philippines, 2003. Dane Chandler is visiting Manila on a writing assignment. Jack Pierce is a tough-talking Korean War veteran. When Jack asks Dane to join him for cards at the pension's cafe, Dane instinctively agrees, sensing the man's "command" presence. What unfolds will change their lives forever. Tokyo, Japan, 1949. Jack Pierce joined the army for honor and adventure, finding himself garrisoned at Camp Drake, Tokyo. On a raucous night at Ginza's glitzy Club Florida, the young corporal meets the love of his life, Michiko Okura.

Als Ninjas ein englisches Handelsschiff angreifen, ist der Matrosenjunge Jack Fletcher der einzige Überlebende. Es gelingt ihm, sich und das wertvolle Logbuch seines Vaters an die japanische Küste zu retten. Doch Jack muss untertauchen, denn der neue Herrscher Japans verfolgt erbarmungslos alle Ausländer. Auf der Flucht gewähren ihm ausgerechnet die Erzfeinde der Samurai Unterschlupf: Großmeister Soke und seine Ninja-Kämpfer.

耳で見るドラマ、みみドラ。ソン・ジュンギ、チョン・ヨビン、オク・テギョン主演の韓国ドラマ「ヴィンチェンツォ」を日本語でオーディオブック化。

耳で見るドラマ、みみドラ。イ・ジェフン、キム・ヘス、チョ・ジヌン主演の韓国ドラマ「シグナル」を日本語でオーディオブック化。

When the deliverymen set off in the morning, the children wait for the flicker of pedal and wheel. It's the demae—delivery men—setting off to deliver steaming trays of noodles to hungry customers all over the city. They are acrobats: whizzing past other bicycles, soaring around curves, avoiding the black smoke of motorcycles. When the children see them, they want to be them. And so they practice with bowls of wobbling water stacked on trays. The day passes, and, finally, exhausted, the demae return home, to their families, and, yes, to steaming bowls of noodles.

押す？ 引く？ 息が止まるくらいに刺激的な恋の駆け引きが始まる。元彼の結婚式を担当することになった気の毒なウエディングプランナー、市原聖奈。

"WA" is a Japanese word that describes, or encompasses, the “essence” of what it is to “be Japanese”. This spirit is intricately woven throughout these stories as fantastic creatures, fearsome monsters, animals that are all too human, and people that are, well, all too human too. They make choices and fateful decisions that'll take each character on journeys that are terrifying and miraculous, whimsical and thought-provoking, mysterious, magical, and uniquely Japanese. Come along and join them, as life’s lessons are learned, or sometimes not.

We have selected for you nine of the best Japanese myths and fairy tales. Not unlike the western folk tales compiled by the Brothers Grimm, these stories faithfully preserve the spirit of medieval Japan, while rendered in a translation accessible to all ages.

Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Berlin, and Connecticut, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son, Jay, who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront the mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old.

A dream I wish to have in the night most often isn’t about dating a Hollywood star or making a great hit song. It’s not about my parents saying to me with tears, “We were wrong. We’re sorry”, either. It’s about numbers. I once saw a woman on TV who won four million dollars by the lottery with the numbers she had seen in her dream. Shortly after that, I myself saw numbers in my dream and began to buy a lottery ticket with those numbers.

Mokusei eröffnet auf literarische Weise verschiedene Blickwinkel auf das Land der aufgehenden Sonne: Japan. Arnold Pessers, Fotograf aus den Niederlanden, erkundet das Land für einen Auftrag und schwankt zwischen Kritik und Verklärung. Das Land, das zum einen den Westen imitiert, ist gleichermaßen ein Symbol verklärter Erhabenheit. Schließlich trifft er auf ein japanisches Modell, das er fotografieren soll, und nennt sie fortan nach einer der wenigen Blumen in Japan Mokusei. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich eine Liebesgeschichte der besonderen Art.

Newly reinstated to the homicide division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or killer.

Student Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the notorious Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the Imperial Japanese Army killed up to 300,000 civilians. Only one man can help her, a survivor of the Massacre, and now a visiting professor at the prestigious university of Todai in Tokyo; a man who is rumoured to possess documentary evidence of Nanking.

Tasaku is a lowly cutter of stone who longs for power. This story includes authentic Japanese music on the koto.