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By Perry Miyake; Really Great Books, 2002 When World War III turns into the Economic War with Japan, all Japanese products, investments, and businesses are banned. Old prejudices resurface and Executive Order 9066 is reinstated. Japanese Americans are ordered to abandon their jobs, homes and property to real Americans and report to internment camps; HC $20.00
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Across The Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori Book One By Lian Hearn; Penguin Putnam, 2002 In this mythical world of the Otori, young Takeo learns of the skills he possesses while contending with revenge, treachery, honor, loyalty, betrayal, and love; the first of a trilogy; HC $24.95; pb $14.00
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By Susan Choi; HarperCollins, 2003 Twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada is a young radical caught in the militant underground of the mid-1970s; HC $24.95
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Ash By Holly Thompson; Stone Bridge Press, 2001 Caitlin Ober returns to Japan to teach English in Kogashima while trying to come to terms with a childhood tragedy in Kyoto; pb $16.95
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Autumn
Bridge: A Novel
By Takashi Matsuoka; Random House, 2004 A sweeping tale that takes us from the Cloud of Sparrows Castle in 14th century feudal Japan to the streets of 19th century San Francisco; HC $25.00; pb $13.00
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The
Bamboo Sword And Other Samurai Tales
By Shuhei Fujisawa; translated by Gavin Frew; Kodansha International, 2005 A collection of eight stories by this award-winning novelist evokes life in early seventeenth-century Japan; HC $22.00
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By Karen Tei Yamashita; Coffee House Press, 1992 A multi-generational novel describes the story of Brazil's Japanese immigrant population; Village Voice 25 Best Books of 1992; pb $14.95
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A Bridge Between Us By Julie Shigekuni; Anchor Books, 1996 A novel in which four generations of Japanese American women in one household describe their lives and secrets; pb $10.95
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By Karen Tei Yamashita; Coffee House Press, 2001 A collection of short stories and memoir relating the experiences of the Japanese Brazilians in Japan; pb $16.95
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Clay Walls: A Novel By Kim Ronyoung; University of Washington Press, 1987 A story of early Korean immigrants who arrived in Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and of their American-born children; pb $14.95
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Cloud of Sparrows: A Novel By Takashi Matsuoka; Delacorte Press, 2002 After two centuries of isolation, Japan is forced to open its doors to the west in this nineteenth-century historical adventure with a cast of characters including American missionaries, a young nobleman, and a celebrated geisha; HC $24.95; pb $13.00; mass market $7.50
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Color
of the Sea
By John Hamamura; St. Martin's Press, 2006 (hardcover ed.); Anchor Books, 2007 (paperback ed.) A young Japanese American man and woman fall in love on the eve of World War II. Their relationship is torn apart when she and her family are sent to an internment camp, and he is drafted into the Pacific theater; three weeks after publication, this title is on the Bay Area Best-Sellers List; 2007 ALA Alex Award winner; HC $24.95; pb $13.95
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Dreaming Water By Gail Tsukiyama; St. Martin's Press, 2002 Thirty-eight year old Hana is suffering from Werner's Syndrome, a disease that makes a person age at twice the normal rate; HC $23.95; pb $12.95
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Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories By Ryotaro Shiba; Kodansha International, 2001 Four historical fiction stories including Drunk as a Lord, The Fox-Horse, Date's Black Ship, and The Ghost of Saga; HC $30.00
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Early Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii By Patsy Sumie Saiki; KISAKU, INC., 1993 A collection of short stories depicting the multicultural environment of her childhood on the slopes of Mauna Kea; pb $12.00
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Endure
By Toshiko Shoji Ito; Bear River Press, 2005 Her only crime was being born to Japanese parents in America. Tomi is 17 and living a carefree life in Seattle when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941. Accused by the U.S. government of spying for the enemy, she and her family are forced to leave everything behind and travel to a bleak outpost in south central Idaho-- the Minidoka Relocation Center. Like many other Japanese families, they carry the burden of shame over their imprisonment. But Tomi's indomitable spirit prevails throughout their ordeal. Based on a true story; HC $19.95; pb $11.95
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The Forty-Seven Ronin Story By John Allyn; Tuttle Publishing, 1970 A novel based on historical facts of the famous event that took place in 1701 Edo; pb $12.95
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Heaven's
Net Is Wide: The First Tale of the Otori
By Lian Hearn; Penguin Group, 2007 Prequel to the Tales of Otori series; HC $26.95
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By Julie Shigekuni; St. Martin's Press, 2003 Lily Soto, a thirty-five-year old Japanese American woman, who despite two young children, a stable marriage, and a university teaching career, feels her life is falling apart; HC $23.95
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Kabuki Dancer: A Novel of the Woman who Founded Kabuki By Sawako Ariyoshi; translated by James R. Brandon; Kodansha International, 1994 A novel of Okuni, the legendary temple dancer who created Kabuki as it is known today; pb $16.95
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The Language of Threads By Gail Tsukiyama; St. Martin's Press, 1999 A WWII-era sequel to Women of the Silk (1991) with Pei now in Hong Kong faced with new struggles; pb $12.95
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The Last Fox: A Novel of the 100th/442nd RCT By Robert H. Kono; Abe Publishing, 2001 Sgt. Fred Murano and his three boyhood friends belong to the tough 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated in U.S. military history. Together they are known as the "four foxes" as they fight both the Nazis and racial prejudice; pb $14.95
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By Mary Yukari Waters; Scribner, 2003 This debut collection explores Japanese society caught between World War II and the rapid advance of Westernization; women and children have lost husbands and fathers in the war and now face a world dramatically altered by Western influence; HC $21.00
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The Legend Of Fire Horse Woman By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; Kensington Books, 2003 Sayo was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1902, the ruinous Fire Horse year. Fire Horse Women were destined to remain untamed by men-- and were to be avoided as wives at all cost; married by proxy, she is sent to join her new husband in America where she learns to harness the power of the Fire Horse and survive many obstacles; HC $23.00
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The Loom And Other Stories By R.A. Sasaki; Graywolf Press, 1991 Nine short stories depict the experiences of three generations of Japanese Americans in San Francisco; pb $11.95
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Lucky Come Hawaii By Jon Shirota; Island Book Shelf, 1985; pb $8.95
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The Mask Carver's Son By Alyson Richman; Bloomsbury Pub., 2000 A turn-of-the-century Japanese painter sacrifices family, love, and wealth for his art; pb $14.95
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Meeting Luciano By Anna Esaki-Smith; Random House, 1999 After graduating from college, Emily Shimoda moves back to her home in upstate New York to live with her eccentric, well-bred mother; pb $12.00
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Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden; Vintage Books, 1999 This national and international bestseller provides an intriguing look at Japan's vanishing world of the geisha; pb $14.95
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Memoirs
of the Warrior Kumagai: A Historical Novel
By Donald Richie; Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1999 Kumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior famous for having taken the head of the young and handsome samurai Atsumori. The author presents a fictional account of Kumagai's attempt to come to terms with his past; HC $18.95 [limited quantity of this title available on Bargain Table at reduced price]
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Middle Son By Deborah Iida; Penguin Putnam, 1996 For Spencer Fujii, Hawaii is a place of hard work and heartache, the transplanted home of his Japanese American family-- and the site of a long-ago tragedy; ALA Notable Book of the Year; pb $12.95
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Musashi By Eiji Yoshikawa; translated by Charles S. Terry; Kodansha International, 1981 A classic samurai novel about the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi; HC $35.00
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No-No Boy By John Okada; University of Washington Press, 1980 Ichiro Yamada, a young Japanese American, chose to go to federal prison rather than serve in the American army during WWII; his struggles and conflicts upon his return to his family and realities of postwar America are revealed in this angry, intense novel; pb $14.95
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Obasan By Joy Kogawa; Random House, reprint 1994 American Book Award for the Before Columbus Foundation; pb $11.95
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By Mako Yoshikawa; Random House, 2003 Step-sisters, Claudia and Rei, have not seen each other in many years, but they recover their friendship across two cultures and two families; HC $22.95; pb $13.00
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One Hundred And One Ways By Mako Yoshikawa; Random House, 1999 Kiki grew up in New Jersey and has never met her grandmother Yukiko, for whom she is named; but she feels a secret kinship with this woman who was sold by her impoverished family and became a famous geisha; pb $12.95
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The
Pearl Diver: A Novel
By Jeff Talarigo; Random House, 2004 In 1948 Japan, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver is perfecting the techniques of her age-old occupation when her life is shattered with the diagnosis of leprosy; HC $18.95; pb $12.95
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Picture Bride: A Novel By Yoshiko Uchida; University of Washington Press, reprint ed. 1997 Young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco in 1917 carrying the photograph of a man she is to marry but has yet to meet; pb $14.95
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Pineapple White By Jon Shirota; Ohara Publications, 1972 Out-of-print, limited quantity available; HC $10.00
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The Samurai's Garden By Gail Tsukiyama; St. Martin's Press, 1996 Stephen, a young Chinese student is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis; what unfolds are new relationships that nurture for a lifetime; pb $12.95
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Snow Falling On Cedars By David Guterson; Random House, 1995 In 1954 on San Piedro Island near Puget Sound, Nisei Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with murder; winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award; pb $14.00
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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir By Wakako Yamauchi; The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994 Recalls the lives and dreams of the Issei and Nisei as rural immigrants, tenant farmers, and factory workers; includes And The Soul Shall Dance filmed for PBS; winner of National Book Award for Literature; pb $14.95
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Sophie and the Rising Sun By Augusta Trobaugh; Penguin Putnam, 2001 In a small Georgia town, Mr. Oto is taken in as a gardener by the town's conscience, Miss Anne, in the spring of 1939; HC $22.95; pb $13.00
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By Nina Revoyr; Akashic Books, 2003 Jackie Ishida is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly; Frank was a veteran of WWII and owned a store in the Los Angeles' Crenshaw district; while tring to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers a mystery and unearths long-held family secrets; pb $15.95
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Strangeness of Beauty By Lydia Minatoya; Simon and Schuster, 1999 This story of three generations takes place in America (Seattle) and Japan between 1922 and 1939; pb $14.00
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The
Street of a Thousand Blossoms
By Gail Tsukiyama; St. Martin's Press, 2007 In 1939 Tokyo, two orphaned brothers are raised by their loving grandparents, who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition; HC $24.95 |
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Taiko - a Novel By Eiji Yoshikawa; Kodansha, International, 1992 An epic novel of war and glory in feudal Japan; HC $32.00
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The Tale of Genji By Murasaki Shikibu; translated by Royall Tyler; Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2001 Written in the eleventh century, The Tale of Genji is widely celebrated as the world's first novel; includes glossaries, character lists, chronologies; two-volume HC set $60.00; pb $28.00
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The Tale of Genji, Part I By Lady Murasaki; translated by Arthur Waley; Dover Publications, 2000 An unabridged republication of part I of Arthur Waley's translation and introduction to the work originally published in 1929 by Houghton Mifflin Co.; pb $2.50
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The Tale of Murasaki By Liza Dalby; Random House, 2000 The eleventh-century world of the creator of Japan's masterpiece, The Tale of Genji comes to life in this novel; pb $14.00
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Tales
of The Samurai
By James S. de Benneville; Dover Publications, 2004 An unabridged republication of Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki originally published in 1915; pb $19.95
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest By Karen Tei Yamashita; Coffee House Press, 1990 Winner of the American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award; pb $12.95
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Treadmill: A Documentary Novel By Hiroshi Nakamura; Mosaic Press, 1996 A unique novel written while the author experienced life in the Salinas Assembly Center, Poston Relocation Center, and Tule Lake Segregation Center; pb $16.95
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By Karen Tei Yamashita; Coffee House Press, 1997; pb $14.95
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Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada; Heyday Books, 2000 Includes fifteen stories, a novella, correspondence, and an interview with Toshio Mori; pb $15.95
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When The Emperor Was Divine: A Novel By Julie Otsuka; Alfred A. Knopf, 2002 Review posted Each of five chapters represent the individual perspectives of members of a Japanese American family during the episode of Japanese American internment camps of WWII; HC $18.00
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Why She Left Us: A Novel By Rahna Reiko Rizzuto; HarperCollins, 1999 Japanese American Emi Okada finds herself pregnant and alone on the eve of WWII; she gives up her firstborn, Eric, for adoption, but her mother finds the boy and brings him home, intent on raising him as part of the Okada family. Winner of the American Book Award; pb $13.00 (see Bargain Table for specially priced copies of this title)
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Women of the Silk: A Novel By Gail Tsukiyama; St. Martin's Press, 1991 This West Coast bestseller takes place in early 20th century rural China and depicts the women of the vast silk industry; pb $12.95
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Yokohama, California By Toshio Mori; University of Washington Press, reprint ed. 1997 Originally published in 1949, the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American; set in the late 1930's and early 1940's about people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America; pb $14.95 |
