AFTER THE BANQUET Yukio Mishma
Kanzu, owner of a luxury restaurant, fall in love with a client, a retired politician, whom she decides to help return to public office.
BLACK RAIN Masuji Ibuse
Shigematsu's diary is used to refute charges years later that his niece has radiation sickness and so cannot marry. A documentary novel about the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima.
BOTCHAN Natsume Soseki
One of Japan's most widely read novels, it is compared to The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and is a tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school.
THE BOX MAN Kobo Abe
The box man throws away his responsibilities&emdash;address book, job, credit cards and possession&emdash;finds a suitable box, puts it over his head and creates a home. He views the outside through a small peephole, yet soon his existence is invaded.
BREAKAWAY RUN David Klass
Seventeen-year-old Tony, a soccer player, goes to Japan as an exchange student leaving behind problems with peers and parents.
There, he meets Maedas, the daughter of his host family who hel F.B.I. then she, her mother, and brother are moved to an internment camps him to cope with being an outsider.

DEATH IN MIDSUMMER Yukio Mishima
The main character in the first of these ten short stories is Tomoko, a mother who has just lost two children in a drowning accident at a resort.
THE DOCTOR'S WIFE Sawako Ariyoshi
A novel based on the life of the first doctor in the world to perform breast cancer surgery using general anesthesia.
FAREWELL TO MANZANAR (940.5472) Jeanne Houston
Her family is uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. A haunting story that is often compared to The
Diary of Anne Frank
THE GINGER TREE Oswald Wynd
In 1903, Mary MacKenzie sails for Peking to marry a British military attaché, but soon falls in love with a Japanese nobleman.
IN THE AUTUMN WIND Dorothy Stroup
Chiyo, a traditional Japanese wife and mother, rebuilds her own life and rediscovers love after surviving the bombing of Hiroshibuilds her own life and rediscovers love after surviving the bombing of Hiroshima and the deaths of family and friends.
INVISIBLE THREAD (B) Yoshiko Uchida
Novelist Uchida describes growing up in California, as a Nisei, a second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a
Nevada concentration camp during World War II.
JAPANESE SHORT STORIES Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Ten stories by the author of Rashomon. In these, he explores the
HOME Yoshiko Uchida
After being released from an American concentration camp, Yuki and her parents return to Berkeley to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feeling.
JOURNEY TO TOPAZ Yoshiko Uchida
Eleven-year-old Yuki is looking forward to Christmas when her world is shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. First, her father is taken by the F.B.I. then she, her mother, and brother are moved to an internment camp in the American desert, Based on the author's own experiences.

KITCHEN Banana Yoshimato
Two stories explore the lives of young Japanese students today. The first focuses on the conflict between traditional and modern customs in contemporary Japan. The other is a romance of a young woman, who is granted a last vision of a boyfriend who has been killed in a car crash.
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS Junichiro Tanizaki
Four sisters who have been raised in the aristocratic tradition live intertwined lives in changing pre-war Osaka.
THE MASTER PUPPETEER Katherine Paterson
A thirteen-year-old boy lives in the world of puppeteers in eighteenthcentury Osaka, a time of poverty and discontent.
MY BROTHER, MY SISTER, AND I Yoko Watkins
Sequel to So Far From the Bamboo Grove. Refugee thirteen-year-old
Yoko and her older brother and sister endure fire, injury, and false charges of theft and murder trying to locate their missing father in post-war Japan.
MUSASHI Eiji Yoshikawa
The Way of the Sword is explained in this historical novel of the samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi.
THE NAME OF THE FLOWER Kuniko Mukoda
In one of thirteen unsettling and eccentric stories of ordinary Japanese families, a fish mysteriously appears in a kitchen one afternoon and no one knows why.
NISEI DAUGHTER (B) Monica Sone
Monica's life as a Japanese American growing up in Seattle changes abruptly when her family is sent to an internment camp in Idaho.
Later, she alone is released and sent to Chicago and college.
OBASAN Joy Kogawa
Aunt Obasan protects and teaches Naomi as they live through World
War II in Canada. Naomi mother is in Japan when war breaks out and is unable to get home.
OF NIGHTINGALES THAT WEEP Katharine Paterson
Daughters of Samurai never weep, but Takiko, whose warrior father was killed in battle, finds this a hard rule, especially when her mother remarries a strange country potter. To get away, Takiko accepts a

position in the Imperial Court where she falls in love. Her comfortable life is suddenly ripped apart when opposing warrior clans begin a struggle for Imperial control of Japan.
A PERSONAL MATTER Kenzaburo Oë
Bird struggles to destroy his son, a baby born with a brain hernia which gives him the look of a two headed baby.
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY Kazuo Ishiguro
A Japanese author tells a strictly British story of Stevens, an elderly butler at Darlington Hall. When the new owner, a Nazi sympathizer, sends him on a trip to rehire a housekeeper, Stevens examines his own life.
RISING SUN Michael Crichton
Author Crichton sets this murder mystery in modern day corporate
Japan. Also, made into a movie.
THE SAMURAI'S TALE Erik Haugaard
Growing up in sixteenth-century Japan, when the great war lords were fighting over the land, Taro becomes a servant when his life is spared by Lord Takeda.
SEVEN JAPANESE TALES Junichiro Tanizaki
Stories that explore the author's fascination with the Japanese past and with the seductively evil blossoms of exotic decadence.
SHIZUKO'S DAUGHTER Kyoko Mari
In the years following her mother's suicide, Yuki develops an inner strength in coping with her distant father, her resentful stepmother, and her haunting, painful memories.
SHOGUN James Clavell
Epic novel which traces the history of Japan from its discovery by early
Dutch explorers through the shoguns.
SILENCE Shusaku Endo
Sebastian Rodrigues, a Portuguese priest, is smuggled into seventeenth-century Japan to administer to the outlawed Christians.
When he is captured, he is faced with the decision to watch the torture of his followers or to renounce his faith.
SNOW COUNTRY Yasunari Kawabata
Nobel prize winning author evokes Japan's mountainous snow country

as cynical Shimamura is drawn from his city life to the warmth of a young geisha.
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS David Guterson
A murder and the trial which follows reveal divisions that remain between Americans and Japanese-Americans in post-World War II
Washington state.
SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE Yoko Watkins
Yoko and her family are living in Korea during World War II. In 1945, they are warned of a communist attack and flee to Seoul hoping to make connections to Japan. Instead, they begin a life as refugees.
THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN Yasunari Kawabata
Shingo, an old man who lives with his family in a suburb of Tokyo, hears the faint rumble in the hills that is a hint of unknown occurrences and foreboding death. Events are real, yet touched with a dreamlike symbolism.
THE SOUND OF WAVES Yukio Mishima
Life is lonely in a small fishing village for Shinji until he sees a beautiful girl, Hatsue, who dives into the cold sea for abalone.
SPRING SNOW Yukio Mishima
A love story of Kiyoaki and Satoko, this is the first in the Sea of
Fertility tetralogy.
STUBBORN TWIG (929.9) Lauren Kessler
Arriving in America in 1903 with big dreams and empty pockets,
Masuo Yasui begins this family's three generation, century-long struggle to become Americans.
A SUMMER LIFE (811X) Gary Soto
Five essays that detail growing up in the Japanese community in
Fresno, California.
SUSHI AND SOURDOUGH Tooru Kanazawa
A family saga begins in 1897 when Matajuro Fuse, hoping to find gold, leaves his family in Japan to come to Alaska.
TEACH US TO OUTGROW OUR MADNESS Kenzaburo Oë
A collection of four short novels by this year's winner of the Nobel
Prize. Included is one of his earliest about a Japanese boy and a black
American pilot captured in a Japanese village.

TEMPLE OF DAWN Yukio Mishima
The third title in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy finds Honda meeting a
Thai princess who he believes is a link in Kiyoakï's reincarnation chain.
After a pilgrimage to holy places in India, he returns a changed man.
THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION Yukio Mishima
A young Buddhist priest is so obsessed by the beauty of a temple and his own alienation from the world, that he destroys all he loves.
TUN-HUANG Yasushi Inoue
Why were thousands of manuscripts hidden nine hundred years ago in the Thousand Buddha Caves? Inoue's novel explores this mystery of western China.
TWENTY-FOUR EYES Sakae Tsuboi
Miss Oishi, a young school teacher, watches as twelve innocent children progress to adulthood in a period of Jingoism and corrupt values.
THE TWO WORLDS OF JIM YOSHIDA (B) Jim Yoshida
Returning to the ancestral home with his father's ashes, Jim and his family are trapped in Japan at the outbreak of World War II, where he is forced to serve in the Japanese Army.
THE WAITING YEARS Fumiko Enchi
A nineteenth-century wife must obey her husband when he sends her to Toyko to bring back a mistress. Set in the Meiji period, Enchi explores the status and psychology of women.
WINDOWS FOR THE CROWN PRINCE (952.033) Elizabeth Vining
The author meets the twelve-year-old Crown Prince Akihito, the current Emperor, and tutors him in English for the next four years.
YOU GOTTA HAVE WA (796.357) Robert Whiting
Japanese society seen through the eyes of the two professional baseball leagues.
(B) - denotes biography