Language: Japanese

It's time to start playing hide and seek! Are you ready? Find the pirates, the kings, the schoolchildren and more.

Teach yourself Japanese in just 12 weeks with this fun, user-friendly, and uniquely visual language course. 12 themed chapters are broken down into easy-to-follow 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range of practical themes, including leisure, business, food and drink, travel, and shopping. Each...

With this fun, user-friendly, and uniquely visual Japanese language course, you can teach yourself Japanese in just 12 weeks. DK's '15 Minute Japanese' - now relaunching with a new free audio app - is the perfect course for busy people who want to learn Japanese fast. Twelve themed chapters are b...

Tokyo, 1984: a young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls '1Q84' - the 'Q' is for 'question mark.' Meanwhile, an aspiring writer nam...

This book transfixes readers by telling the story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit. As '1Q84' accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by persons and forces they do not know and cannot understand.

This work transfixes readers by telling the story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit. As '1Q84' accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by persons and forces they do not know and cannot understand.

When books one and two of Murakami's masterpiece, '1Q84', were published in Japan, they sold out in one day, and the critical acclaim that ensued was reported all over the globe. The book transfixes readers by telling the story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit.

When books one and two of his Murakami's masterpiece, '1Q84', were published in Japan, they sold out in one day, and the critical acclaim that ensued was reported all over the globe. The book transfixes readers by telling the story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit.

A collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's best known authors. Born in 1925 the author committed ritual suicide in 1970, and it is often this act for which he is remembered. Yukio Mishima is the author of 40 novels including "The Sea of Fertility" and "Confessions of a Mask".

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. They realise they've been acquainted through Erl, Marl's beautiful sister.

Ikki Minami is a junior high school student with a dream - to become the best Air Track player in town. What is Air Track? Just the latest craze that involves taking a two-wheel inline skate and adding a motor, new suspension and a shock absorber to enable the wearer to execute the wackiest, most...

Shy, lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader. About to turn 35, she cannot imagine ever having any emotional or successful relationship in her life as it currently stands. She is regularly haunted by encounters of the past. But Fuyuko l...

After the death of their benefactor, who died in shocking and mysterious circumstances, her surviving extended family members set off on a journey through forbidden romance, suffering and grief culminating in a spiritual experience on a Pacific island.

The Duke, a warped mass that collects the abandoned stories and regrets of individuals in Wonderland, goes berserk in the town square, not far from where Alice and Hatter have traveled on an errand. In its frenzied state, the Duke wants nothing more than to have Alice all to itself. But when an o...

A combination of tiny homes and a love of stylish homeware has left Japanese people hungry for advice on organisation, decluttering and tidying up. Indeed, in this era of mass consumption, we are all drowning in 'stuff', despite our best efforts to keep on top of the clutter that collects in our ...

In this guide to living a calmer, more ordered life, renowned author Nagisa Tatsumi teaches us how letting go of unwanted things will transform our day-to-day happiness. The book offers practical advice and techniques to help readers learn to let go of stuff that is holding them back, as well as ...

Ever caught yourself screaming, I could just kill that teacher? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an F on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call again? How about blowing up the ...

Ever caught yourself screaming, I could just kill that teacher? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an F on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call again? How about blowing up the ...

Ever caught yourself screaming, I could just kill that teacher? What would it take to justify such antisocial behaviour and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an F on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call again? How about blowing up the...

Ever caught yourself screaming, 'I could just kill that teacher'? What would it take to justify such antisocial behaviour and weeks of detention? Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had? Giving you an 'F' on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call ... again? How about blowin...