Japanese Fantasy Stories

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    • A Novel
    • By: Haruki Murakami
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
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    • In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface....

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    • Classic Stories of Japanese Myths, Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Monsters, the Story of Princess Hase, Issun-Boshi, Momotaro, Kintaro, Kaguya Hime
    • By: Roberts Parizi
    • Narrated by: Joshua
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Are you interested in learning about Japanese mythology? These myths are great for adults and children alike. They give you an insight into a culture that is full of traditions....

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    • By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
    • Narrated by: Michelle Sekine
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto comes a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood....

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    • Stories and Studies of Strange Things
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Blaise Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-20
    • Language: English
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    • Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies"....

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    • Stories
    • By: Izumi Suzuki
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina....

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    • By: J.K.ローリング, 松岡佑子 - 翻訳
    • Narrated by: 松嶋 菜々子
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: Japanese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • ハリー・ポッターのJ.K.ローリング書き下ろし童話。                      
      コルヌコピア王国は、立派な口髭をもつ王様が治める、世界一幸福な国でした。....

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    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-07
    • Language: English
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    • Kwaidan is a collection of weird, ghostly legends and beliefs of old Japan....

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    • 21 Stories from the Famous Collection (417 World Children Stories)
    • By: Patrick Healy
    • Narrated by: Denise Kahn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-18
    • Language: English
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    • Teacher Patrick Healy traveled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around half a thousand myths, legends, and folktales and their several alternative versions. This audiobook is the eighth volume of his work, 21 Japanese Tales, in his words....

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    • By: 池澤 春菜
    • Narrated by: 池澤 春菜
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-24
    • Language: Japanese
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    • 池澤春菜、初の小説集を本人が朗読!遠い未来のスペースコロニーで、亡くなった叔母の弔いを巡る情景を描いた表題作のほか、商業媒体やウェブ媒体で発表した池澤春菜のSF短篇を集成。

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    • By: Grace James
    • Narrated by: Marina Viñals
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-22
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista....

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    • By: Emi Watanabe Cohen
    • Narrated by: Emi Watanabe Cohen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • On the same day Faye’s brother comes home with a black eye, a package arrives from a relative they’ve never met. It’s a slab of clay: some weird kind of bar mitzvah present? The strange gift turns out to be an invitation to learn a craft that’s been in their family for centuries.

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    • By: J.K. ローリング
    • Narrated by: 石田 嘉代
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: Japanese
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    • ジャックは、小さい頃にもらったブタのぬいぐるみが大好きです。 良いことがあっても悪いことがあっても、ぬいぐるみはいつもジャックのそばにいました。….

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    • By: Grace James
    • Narrated by: Catherine Westfield
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-19
    • Language: English
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    • A collection of stories from the Land of the Rising Sun. The tales come from a rich folk tradition. Fantasy and horror intermingle in these imaginative narratives....

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    • Tales of ‘Wa’ and Wonder!
    • By: Jeff Manning
    • Narrated by: Jeff Manning, Joanna Teljeur
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • "WA" is a Japanese word that describes, or encompasses, the “essence” of what it is to “be Japanese”. This spirit is intricately woven throughout these stories as fantastic creatures, fearsome monsters, animals that are all too human, and people that are, well, all too human too....

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    • Mimei Ogawa: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales
    • By: Mimei Ogawa
    • Narrated by: Masato Ouchida
    • Series: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-21
    • Language: English
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    • Mimei Ogawa, a prolific author of short stories nearly 100 years ago, is considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Japanese children’s literature. He has also been called the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan because of how his works were influenced by Andersen....

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    • Stories by the Founding Father of Japanese Science Fiction
    • By: Juza Unno
    • Narrated by: Martyn Tallon
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • Beginning his writing career in 1928, Juza Unno took inspiration from Western authors like Jules Verne, and his own knowledge of electric engineering to write fiction integrating a broad spectrum of innovative ideas....

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