Japan Literature Fiction

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    • A Novel
    • By: Gail Tsukiyama
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis....

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    • By: John Allyn, Stephen Turnbull - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
    • This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....

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    • The Epic Novel of the Birth of Modern Japan
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 3
    • Length: 50 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,643 ratings
    • The dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan....

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    • By: Ellis Avery
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • The fates of two women, one American, one Japanese, become entwined in this sweeping novel of 19th century Japan on the cusp of radical change and Westernization....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Robert Conroy
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • In 1945, America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame - their aim: to take America down with them....

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    • World’s Scariest Places Series, Book 1
    • By: Jeremy Bates
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Series: World's Scariest Places Series, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 325 ratings
    • Just outside of Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a forest and one of the most beautiful areas in Japan...and also the most infamous spot to commit suicide in the world. When bad weather prevents a group of friends from climbing neighboring Mt. Fuji, they decide to spend the night in Aokigahara....

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    • Rei Shimura Mysteries, Book 1
    • By: Sujata Massey
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Series: Rei Shimura Mysteries, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does)....

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    • By: Takashi Matsuoka
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Series: Samurai Series, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • The follow-up to Cloud of Sparrows transports us once again to a world of samurai and geishas, ninjas and Zen masters....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,642 ratings
    • In Killing Commendatore, a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he opens a circle of mysterious circumstances....

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    • The Asian Saga
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: The Asian Saga
    • Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Rosa Kwon Easton
    • Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Inspired by the life of Easton’s grandmother, White Mulberry is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and must reclaim her true identity to provide a future for her family.

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    • A John Rain Novel
    • By: Barry Eisler
    • Narrated by: Barry Eisler
    • Series: John Rain Series, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,241 ratings
    • Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn’t care about why....

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    • Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Dylan Foster - Foreword by
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In Ghostly Japan collects 12 ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation....

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    • By: C.A. Parker
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Japan, 1745, is a land under the iron grip of the Tokugawa shoguns. Roads are monitored, dissent stifled, and order maintained through blackmail and an extensive network of informers.

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    • A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
    • By: Lord Russell of Liverpool
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion....

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    • By: Inazo Nitobe
    • Narrated by: Blaise Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a seminal study on the way of the samurai by the Japanese educator Inazo Nitobe. From 1868, the beginning of the Meiji Era, Japan rapidly transformed itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern, industrialised nation state....

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    • By: Laura Joh Rowland
    • Narrated by: James Yaegashi
    • Series: Feudal Japan, Book 12
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Chosen by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2007, The Snow Empress showcases author Laura Joh Rowland's deep understanding of 17th-century Japan....

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