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annas Japanese Motifs Embroidery Adorable Japanese Motifs using a Punch Needle

annas no Wa no Shishuu Free Stitch de sasu Nihon no Kawaii Motif / annasの和の刺繍　フリーステッチで刺す日本のかわいいモチーフ

Anna Kawabata

Following annas Lettering Embroidery and annas Small Embroidery Designs (New Edition), comes a new book from the popular embroidery artist annas. This title is her first embroidery book ...

Black Showman and the Murder in an Obscure Town

Black Showman to Namonaki Machi no Satsujin / ブラック・ショーマンと名もなき町の殺人

The year is 2021. While the whole world has been thrown into chaos by the Covid-19 crisis, the disease is in remission in Japan. But it has not been completely eliminated and when the number of cases surges, ...

The World’s Most Magical Facialist

Sekai-ichi no Fcaial Magic / 世界一のフェイシャル・マジック

Joomee Song

She is acclaimed as “The best facialist in the world” by her celebrity, A-list clients. “One week later, we still feel dewy and smooth.” – LA TIMES. With skincare, the simpler the better. Less ...

annas Small Embroidery Designs　Drawing 12 Stories with a Needle & Thread

Shinban　annas no chiisana sishuuzuan　Hari to Iito de egaku 12 no Monogatari / 新版 annasの小さな刺繍図案　針と糸で描く12の物語

Anna Kawabata

This book introduces pretty embroidery designs from the world of 12 beloved tales to put on a handkerchief, a pouch, a book cover… This is a collection of motif designs from the most popular stories ...

Groom of Zozo

Zozo no muko / ぞぞのむこ

Kyu Inoue

Company employee Shimamoto gets on the wrong train and disembarks at an unfamiliar station. His subordinate, Yazaki, utters a strange warning: “Better leave as soon as you can. This is the haunted city ...

Yoko on the Other Side

Mukogawa no Yoko / 向こう側の、ヨーコ

Yukiko Mari

Yoko enjoys her single life as a successful author. Yet since childhood she has had a recurring dream in which she is an unhappy housewife with a husband and child who make incessant demands on her. ...

annas Lettering Embroidery

annas no Moji no Shijuu / annasのもじの刺繍

Anna Kawabata

Tote bags and brooches, handkerchiefs and other accessories, hugely popular for decorating the perfect school things and birthday wishes. Full of ideas for adding color to your favorite things and inspirations ...

Ten Dresses Are Enough for Your Closet

Kurozetto ni wa wanpiisu ga 10 chaku areba ii / クローゼットにはワンピースが10着あればいい

Eika Fukuda

A 365-day collection of ensembles for adult women to mix and match their “ten best dresses.” A survey of working adult women identified a need for fashion that “accommodates for changes in body shape, ...

Ketogenic Recipes That Shrink Cancer Before Your Eyes

Gan ni katsu reshipi / がんに勝つレシピ

Reimi Aso

The “ketogenic diet” is drawing attention for its effectiveness in treating diabetes, obesity, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and many other ailments. A popular cooking expert has developed ...

Japan’s New “Tiny House” Lifestyle

Nippon no atarashii koya gurashi / ニッポンの新しい小屋暮らし

Yadokari

We no longer need big houses to live in. This collection of 11 case studies introduces the wonderful lifestyle of the “Tiny House,” a new movement emerging from the trend toward minimalism. ...

Cartoon Primer on Ketones: Why Low-Carb Improves Health

Manga keton-tai nyumon / まんがケトン体入門

Cartoons are used to lucidly explain the theory and practice of the “ketogenic diet,” said to be effective against cancer, depression, diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. Editorial ...

Marimari’s Camp Book

Marimari no joshi kyan / marimariの女子キャン

Mariko Matsuo

Charismatic camper Marimari, a popular figure on TV and in print media, explains how women can enjoy camping in style with ease. From day trips to longer 4–5 day sojourns, winter camping, and camping ...

A Bug-Catcher’s Adventures in Africa

Batta wo taoshi ni Afurika e / バッタを倒しにアフリカへ

Koutaro Ould Maeno

A young Japanese entomologist goes to Mauritania to do battle with pillaging locusts, and in the face of many collateral dangers, lives to tell the tale with a hearty sense of humor. The book became a ...

How to Make the Most Delicious Seasoned Boiled Egg: 100 Home Recipes for Solo Diners

Sekai-ichi oishii nitamago no tsukurikata / 世界一美味しい煮卵の作り方

Hungry Grizzly

This is a book of recipes from “Hungry Grizzly’s Cooking Blog,” which held the top spot in Japanese blog rankings for 26 months straight. The blogger going by the nom de plume of Hungry Grizzly declares, ...

Fascinating Fungi: Those Mysterious Mushrooms

Chinkin / 珍菌　まかふしぎなきのこたち

Hiromi Hori

Miyuki Kido

Yaguradake (powdery piggyback), which is a parasite on other mushrooms, Mamezayatake (dead man’s fingers), which looks like human fingers protruding from the ground, Chichitake ...

Ketogenic Diet Wipes Out Cancer

Keton shoku ga gan wo kesu / ケトン食ががんを消す

Kenji Furukawa

The main source of nutrition for cancer cells is glucose. Cancer could be suppressed if there were a life-supporting nutrient to replace glucose. The author, who has treated cancer patients for many years, ...

Grooming the Samurai: Japanese Etiquette for Children

Buke no shitsuke: Kodomo no reigi-saho / 武家の躾　子どもの礼儀作法

Keishosai Ogasawara

Secret teachings on “raising boys” passed down through successive generations of a samurai clan for 500 years. The profound teachings of the Ogasawara School of Etiquette, established in the ...

How to Make Gyoza

Gyoza no tsukurikata / 餃子の作り方

There has been huge TV and magazine coverage for this introduction to 50 super-creative recipes for gyoza (pot stickers or jiaozi) that look interesting and taste delicious. Mangyo-en ...

Living Space with Typography

Taipo no aru kurashi. / タイポのある暮らし。

An introduction to practical techniques and ideas for stylishly renovating your room with interior designs using hand-crafted typography, which is in vogue nowadays. Original templates provided.

Poison Daughter, Holy Mother

Poizun dōtā, hōrī mazā / ポイズンドーター・ホーリーマザー

Kanae Minato

A novel in eight short stories involving incidents of murder, injurious assault, and such by a writer regarded as the originator and queen of the genre known as iyamisu in Japan—literally, “eww ...

The Mukoda Barber Shop

Mukoda Rihatsuten / 向田理髪店

Hideo Okuda

The story takes place in fictitious Tomazawa, a town that once grew to a population of 80,000 in the middle of a flourishing coal-mining district in Hokkaido. Since the advent of cheap oil, the town has ...

Star Worms

Hoshi yadoru mushi / 星宿る虫

Shunsuke Minesato

A fire breaks out in a building where a religious group in Nagano runs a brothel. The bodies recovered from the ruins are infested by a mysterious worm, and the blood in their veins has turned yellow. ...

On the Day the World Turns Red

Sekai ga aka ni somaru hI ni / 世界が赫に染まる日に

Riu Kushiki

Kai Ogata, 14, all but loses his two cousins to vicious bullying: Shota Dobashi, 13, is beaten into a coma, and his sister Suzuna, 12, is raped and left emotionally scarred. Thanks to provisions of the ...

The Nishiura Photo Studio in Enoshima

Enoshima Nishiura Shashinkan / 江ノ島西浦写真館

En Mikami

The story is set on the small but picturesque island of Enoshima, a popular seaside resort in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo. The Nishiura Photo Studio that was in business there for a full century ...

Ketones Will Save Humanity: Why Low-Carb Improves Health

Ketontai ga jinrui wo sukuu / ケトン体が人類を救う

Tetsuo Muneta

The ketogenic diet, currently gaining attention for its effectiveness in treating diabetes, obesity, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and many other ailments, is a diet therapy in which carbohydrates ...

Human Chairs: A Rampoesque Tale

Ningen-isu Rampo kitan / 人間椅子　乱歩奇譚

Shiro Kuro

The body of a young teacher named Okumura is found dismembered and reassembled in the shape of a chair in a middle-school classroom. One of his students, a fair-faced 13-year-old named Kobayashi, happens ...

Temple Cuisine

Itsumo no, otera no okazu / いつもの、お寺のおかず

Kakuho Aoe

In Buddhist temples, a monk with the title of tenzo prepares all food dishes every day. The author of this book, one of the most famous tenzo in Japan, introduces over 50 recipes which ...

Beautiful Smoothies

it's mai smoothie / it's MAI SMOOTHIE

Mai Kitamura

Author Mai Kitamura has been uploading photos and recipes of tantalizing fruit and vegetable smoothies to instagram.com/mai_smoothie on a daily basis, and this book brings much of that highly popular content ...

The Phantom on December 8

Junigatsu yoka no gen'ei / 十二月八日の幻影

Fuyuaki Jikihara

An intelligent and thrilling entertainment that follows the covert exploits of spies on the eve of hostilities between Japan and the United States in December 1941. Saburō Shiota is an ensign in the Imperial ...

The Playground of the Gods

Kamisama-tachi no asobu niwa / 神さまたちの遊ぶ庭

Natsu Miyashita

This book is an account of the year author Natsu Miyashita and her family spent living in the remote mountain village of Tomuraushi in Hokkaido. It was this year-long sojourn surrounded by incomparable ...

Index

Indekkusu / インデックス

Tetsuya Honda

This volume contains eight short stories that complement author Tetsuya Honda’s best-selling novel series featuring crime fighter Reiko Himekawa. Five of the tales relate cases that Reiko, now 33, undertakes ...

Scream

Zekkyo / 絶叫

Aki Hamanaka

In an apartment in suburban Tokyo, the remains of a body are discovered along with a dozen or so cats. All that can be gathered from the scene is the victim’s name, Yoko Suzuki. Whether the death is ...

Amazing Insects

Konchu wa sugoi / 昆虫はすごい

Munetoshi Maruyama

With over a million species identified to date, insects are said to make up more than two-thirds of all living creatures on earth. Though more often than not they are regarded as a lowly form of life and ...

Hollow Cross

Utsuro na jujika / 虚ろな十字架

Keigo Higashino

Freelance writer Sayoko Hamaoka is stabbed to death on the street. Shortly afterward, 68-year-old Sakuzo Machimura turns himself in to the police and confesses to the crime, claiming that he did it for ...

Forgotten Items for Delivery

Wasuremono ga todokimasu / 忘れ物が届きます

Kozue Osaki

In this collection of five short mysteries, “Nobara no niwa e“ (To the Garden of Wild Roses) takes place at a luxurious villa in the old capital of Kamakura, south of Tokyo. Shihoko ...

How to Keep a Pet Guardian of Death

Yasashii shinigami no kaikata / 優しい死神の飼い方

Mikito Chinen

A fanciful tale in which a dog rescued by a young nurse working for a terminal-care facility becomes a therapy dog for the patients in an unusual way, and also solves an old murder mystery. The dog, a ...

Carbohydrates Kill: The Bioscience of Low-Carb Diets

Tansuikabutsu ga jinrui wo horobosu / 炭水化物が人類を滅ぼす

Makoto Natsui

A much-discussed work that sold 200,000 copies and ignited the “low-carb boom” in Japan. The author, a doctor, maintains a low carbohydrate diet himself and squarely refutes rumors that “low-carb ...

Lost Care

Rosuto kea / ロスト・ケア

Aki Hamanaka

Public prosecutor Hideki Otomo asks his friend Koichiro Sakuma, who works for Forest, a major eldercare chain, for help in finding a high-end facility for his aging father. Forest has been growing rapidly ...

Blue Murder

Buruu maadaa / ブルーマーダー

Tetsuya Honda

A year after the events of Inbijiburu rein (Invisible Rain), Reiko Himekawa’s team in Criminal Investigation Division I of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has been disbanded, and Reiko ...

Rambling Mother

Haha-oya uesutan / 母親ウエスタン

Hika Harada

Hiromi drifts from one motherless home to another, serving as a surrogate mother to children whose single fathers—truck drivers, crewmen on far-roaming fishing boats—are away for extended periods of ...

The Cherry Has Bloomed

Sakura saku / サクラ咲く

Mizuki Tsujimura

Three linked stories portray the emotional ups and downs of adolescence. In Yakusoku no basho, yakusoku no jikan (Agreed Time, Agreed Place), 13-year-old Yū Kikuchi arrives as a midyear transfer ...

Creepy

Kuripi / クリーピー

Yutaka Maekawa

Takakura, a professor of criminal psychology at a university in Tokyo, has recently moved with his wife Yasuko to a single-family home in the residential area of Ogikubo. Takakura’s next-door neighbor ...

The Great Passage

Fune wo amu / 舟を編む

Shion Miura

This million-selling novel follows the lengthy process of compiling a dictionary, bringing a genuine sense of drama to the lives of people who immerse themselves day after day in the constant flux of language. Mitsuo ...

Refugee in Tokyo

Tokyo nanmin / 東京難民

Tetsuzo Fukuzawa

Osamu Tokieda is in his third year at a college on the outskirts of Tokyo. He is revelling in the easy student life, spending time with his girlfriend and earning pocket money at a part-time job, when ...

Think Again, Jumpei

Jumpei, kangae naose / 純平、考え直せ

Hideo Okuda

Jumpei Sakamoto, 21, is a good-natured, bottom-rung foot soldier in a yakuza syndicate that claims the Kabukicho entertainment district near Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station as its territory. He can be quick ...

Nasty Piece of Work

Iyana onna / 嫌な女

Nozomi Katsura

Natsuko Kotani has a knack for wrapping men around her little finger. She lies to them, she’s mean to them, and while she’s not even especially good looking, somehow they find their spirits ...

The Two Shizukas

Futari Shizuka / 二人静

Ryuji Morita

Shugo Machida, still a bachelor at 32, works for a food company. Three years ago his 60-year-old mother died of Parkinson’s disease; Shugo’s father—who never imagined that his stouthearted ...

The Confectionery Mysteries

Wagashi no Anne / 和菓子のアン

Tsukasa Sakaki

Kyōko Umemoto is a slightly chubby 18-year-old-girl. Having recently graduated from high school, she remains undecided about what to do next with her life. Then one day she sees a “Help Wanted” sign ...

Whose Is the Cuckoo’s Egg?

Kakko no tamago wa dare no mono / カッコウの卵は誰のもの？

Keigo Higashino

Hiromasa Hida was once one of Japan’s premier skiers, representing the country in international competitions; his daughter Kazami is also a skier. When Kazami was two, his wife—Kazami’s mother—committed ...

A Checkered Past

Minoue banashi / 身の上話

Shogo Sato

First-person narrator Kengo Katsuki relates his wife Michiru’s story, going back to events in her life before they met. The account begins when Michiru is 23 and working as a bookstore clerk in a ...

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