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15 Japanese Books That Will Stay With You Long After You Finish Reading 🩶

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Naushin

A little collection of Japanese books I’ve loved and found worth picking up. These heartwarming Japanese reads are for anyone who loves storytelling, quiet moments, and stories that make you feel a little more human. Whether you want to escape in...

A beautiful story about loneliness, unexpected connections, and the moments that make life meaningful. When a woman in her late thirties, unexpectedly reconnects with her former high school teacher Sensei they begin meeting at a local bar, sharing m...

A Strange Weather In Tokyo

Convenience Store Woman follows Keiko Furukura, a woman who finds comfort and purpose in the familiar routines of her job at a convenience store. While the people around her expect her to follow society’s traditional path, Keiko is content with a lif...

A raw and honest story about being a woman, our relationship with our bodies, and the different choices we make in life. Breasts and Eggs explores womanhood, motherhood, beauty, and the pressure to fit into the life society expects of us. It’s the k...

Breasts and Eggs: A Novel on Womanhood in Japan

This is a heartwarming collection of stories about people from different age groups who feel a little lost and the unexpected ways a book that they receive from the librarian along with the books that they were looking for, and they end up reading th...

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

If you’ve ever been curious about the world of geisha, this is such a fascinating book to pick up. Geisha: A Life takes you into Mineko Iwasaki’s life, from becoming a geisha at a young age to the years she spent living and working in Kyoto’s tradit...

GEISHA

Japan has a special love for cats — from the famous cat islands and cat cafés to the many cats that have found their way into Japanese art, stories, and everyday life. And if you’re a cat lover too, this is a beautiful Japanese books where cats take...

She and her Cat: for fans of Travelling Cat Chronicles

What if you could go back and have one more conversation with someone from your past? Before the Coffee Gets Cold takes you to a small café in Tokyo where, under a few very specific rules, you can travel back in time. It’s a gentle, emotional collect...

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Million-Copy Sensation

The Nakano Thrift Shop is for the readers of the everyday, the ones who relish the minutiae, the ones who savour strange characters lost in their own little world. The book is divided into chapters named after objects that exchange hands in the shop,...

The Nakano Thrift Shop

A comforting little story about books, starting over, and finding your way back to yourself. After a heartbreak leaves Takako feeling lost, she moves into the small room above her uncle’s second-hand bookshop in Tokyo. Surrounded by books and the peo...

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Japanese Fiction

A comforting little story for anyone who finds happiness in books and quiet places. After a difficult heartbreak, Takako finds herself living above her uncle’s second-hand bookshop in Tokyo. What starts as a place to stay slowly becomes a new chapt...

The Kamogawa Food Detectives: Japanese Bestseller

Days at the Torunka Café follows a few different people whose lives cross around this cosy neighbourhood café each carrying their own stories of love, loss, memories, and new beginnings. It’s a gentle, comforting read about the unexpected connectio...

Days at the Torunka Cafe: Cozy Novel

Another gentle visit to the Torunka Café, where people come in carrying their own little stories and somehow leave with something a little lighter. This book brings together three heartwarming stories about memories, love, and the small moments that ...

Deal: More Days at the Torunka Cafe

Heaven follows a fourteen-year-old boy who is relentlessly bullied at school because of his lazy eye. When he begins exchanging secret letters with Kojima, a girl in his class who is also bullied, the two find comfort in knowing that someone else und...

Heaven

After losing her voice and finding her life turned upside down, Rinko returns to her hometown and opens a small restaurant where she prepares a special meal for each of her guests. Through cooking, she begins to reconnect with herself and the people ...

The Restaurant of Love Regained

Set in Japan in 1903, A Woman of Pleasure follows fifteen-year-old Ichi, whose poor family sells her to a brothel. Trapped in a world where girls are treated as property and must work to pay off their debts, Ichi begins to understand the harsh realit...

A Woman of Pleasure