Modern and Contemporary Tokyo represented in Japanese Literature.
For series/mangas only the first volume is added.
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last updated March, 2026
The Box Man
Kōbō Abe
Akira, Vol. 1
Katsuhiro Otomo
Takekurabe 'Growing Up'
Ichiyō Higuchi
The Little House
Kyōko Nakajima
Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll (Voices from Asia)
Lawrence Rogers
Elegy
Ineko Sata
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Yasunari Kawabata
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Haruki Murakami
池袋ウエストゲートパーク (Japanese Edition)
Ira Ishida
白痴 [Hakuchi]
Ango Sakaguchi
Diary of a Vagabond (Hōrōki)
Fumiko Hayashi
Abandon the Old in Tokyo
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Tokyo Ueno Station
Yū Miri
Moshi Moshi
Banana Yoshimoto
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