Japan Literature Fiction

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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 705 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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    • 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 244 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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    • 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 1,651 ratings
    • The dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan....

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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 332 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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    • 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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    • 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: Sei Shōnagon
    • Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century....

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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 2,646 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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    • 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 3,243 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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    • 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 26 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 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: Clarissa Goenawan
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death....

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    • Tales of the Otori, Book Two
    • By: Lian Hearn
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gray, Aiko Nakasone
    • Series: Tales of the Otori, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,811 ratings
    • Book II of the internationally best-selling Tales of the Otori trilogy, a sweeping saga set in a mythical, medieval Japan.

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    • How Japan Saved American Style
    • By: W. David Marx
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past 150 years....

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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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