Language: Japanese

Features 100 words to use while travelling, from food and transport, to animals and weather. Each word is accompanied with a bold illustration and a simple pronunciation guide to make the vocabulary fun and easy to learn. Plus, its small size makes it a handy addition to any trip to Japan.

Thematic board books to enrich a toddler's vocabulary.

Thematic board books to enrich a toddler's vocabulary.

Thematic board books to enrich a toddler's vocabulary.

To be published in five volumes, "Musashi" is a Samurai epic. Interweaving themes of unrequited love, misguided revenge and absolute dedication to the way of the Samurai, "Musashi" is the story of a wandering swordsman.

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".

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.

Blending memoir and fiction, A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-Chan, a young woman who at the age of twenty finds herself in an unusual family situation.

Okada is apparently a happy man - his domestic life seems familiar and comfortable, but admittedly he has just quit his job, the cat has disappeared and a strange woman is bothering him with explicit phone calls.

The Informer is a tale of intrigue, adultery, murder and the hopelessness of a 'sararyman' who has lost his salary and self-respect during the Tokyo stock market crash. The story is based upon an actual incident.

Inspector Imanishi is 45, and the most dogged homicide detective on the Tokyo police force. Involved in the investigation of a brutal murder, Imanishi pursues the hunt for the criminal even after the official investigation has closed unsuccessfully.

From the acclaimed author of Spring Snow, this novel tells of a band of savage 13-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call objectivity.

This is an easy-to-use Japanese dictionary, specifically suited to adult beginner level, offering all the words and phrases you'll need to get started.

The second book in Mishima's landmark The Sea of Fertility sequence, this is the chronicle of a conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.

The first book of Mishima's landmark 'The Sea of Fertility' sequence, this novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocract is being breached for the first time by outsiders.

This fully comprehensive, pocket-sized dictionary features a basic vocabulary of 10,000 words. It is filled with sample sentences and phrases with all definitions written for English speaking users.

This book contains two short novels, originally published in the 1930s. Musashi deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. Arrowroot also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the Japanese form of the essay novel.

Some Prefer Nettles is a subtle and delicate tale of contemporary life that deals with the ramifications of a collapsing marriage. Previous titles published by the author include A Fool's Love, A Portrait of Shunkin and The Key.