Modern Japan

7 books

The Garden of Sinners, Volume 3 cover
Rating 4.4
The Garden of Sinners, Volume 3 奈须蘑菇 People's Literature Publishing House · 2019 The third volume of The Garden of Sinners is part of Kinoko Nasu's fantasy series centered on the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception." The simplified Ch…
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Rating 3.8
The Keeper of Prayers Keigo Higashino Nanhai Publication Company · 2020 The Keeper of Prayers is a full-length novel by Keigo Higashino published in 2020, sharing the warm, "no crimes, only hearts" approach of The Miracles…
A Man Who Came Back Alive: The Life History of an Ordinary Japanese Soldier in World War II and the Postwar Years cover
Rating 4.2
A Man Who Came Back Alive: The Life History of an Ordinary Japanese Soldier in World War II and the Postwar Years Eiji Oguma Guangxi Normal University Press · 2017 Most memoirs of World War II come from officers, intellectuals, or people of standing, while the urban lower-class commoners who made up the majority …
The Tale of Genji, translated by Feng Zikai cover
Rating 4.2
The Tale of Genji, translated by Feng Zikai Murasaki Shikibu / Feng Zikai People's Literature Publishing House · 2015 The Tale of Genji is a long narrative work by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman writer of Japan's Heian period. It comprises fifty-four chapters and is genera…
Japanese Avant-Garde Ceramic Art cover
Rating 4.6
Japanese Avant-Garde Ceramic Art 赵云川 People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 This series comprises ten volumes: Modern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Art, Japanese Avant-Garde Ceramics, Modern and Contemporary Japanese Texti…
A History of Japanese Reform cover
Rating 3.9
A History of Japanese Reform 赫伯特·诺曼 / 赵阳 New Star Press · 2019 Only by understanding the Meiji Restoration can one grasp how Japan, amid internal turmoil and external threats, made the rapid transition from a feud…
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Rating 4.1
Secret Rendezvous 安部公房 / Tan Jinghua Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2017 If Kōbō Abe's The Box Man is "a novel of the peeper," then The Secret Meeting is "a novel of the eavesdropper." One summer dawn, an ambulance arrives …