Essential Japanese novels and short fiction, past and present.
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last updated January, 2026
The Amberglow Candy Store
Hiyoko Kurisu
May You Have Delicious Meals
Junko Takase
Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop
Kenji Ueda
Strange Houses
Uketsu
Days at the Torunka Café (Days at the Torunka Café, #1)
Satoshi Yagisawa
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Takuya Asakura
Sympathy Tower Tokyo
Rie Qudan
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen (Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen, #1)
Yuta Takahashi
The Convenience Store by the Sea
Sonoko Machida
Hunchback
Saou Ichikawa
Hotel Iris
YĆko Ogawa
Strange Pictures
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
Seishi Yokomizo
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Natsuko Imamura
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
SanshirĆ
Natsume SĆseki
Goodbye Tsugumi
Banana Yoshimoto
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
Asako Yuzuki
Ms Ice Sandwich
Mieko Kawakami
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Schoolgirl
Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human
The Cat Who Saved Books
SĆsuke Natsukawa
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima
Breasts and Eggs
Sweet Bean Paste
Durian Sukegawa
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryƫnosuke Akutagawa
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