tokyo

A nameless stray cat, offered a home with a mediocre schoolteacher, compares notes with his fellow felines on his experiences with humans.

"In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf? which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . . we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the caf?'s time-travelling offer, in order to confront the lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has begun to fade, see their sister one last time, and meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the caf?, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold"--Provided by publisher.

"When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks, and the everyday challenges of being fish out of water?"--Provided by publisher.

As Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin after an assasination attempt invokes the fury of Akira, the Great Tokyo Empire rises with Akira its king, Tetsuo its mad prime minister, and a growing number of acolytes ready to go to any length to please the new leaders.

Describes how the lives of philosopher-patriot Okawa Shumei and U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Daniel Jaffe converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. Civilian Okawa was charged with crimes against humanity, and Jaffe was assigned to determine Okawa's ability to stand trial, and thus his fate.

Tetsuo and Kaneda, teenage friends in Neo-Tokyo following World War III, see their relationship change when Tetsuo begins developing paranormal abilities, making him the target of a shadowy agency motivated by fear of an unthinkable power known as Akira.

American Tim Anderson relates his experiences learning about the social life and customs of Japan while teaching English in Tokyo.

Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, chronicles the 2000 disappearance, massive search, long investigation, and the even longer murder trial behind the gruesome murder case of Lucie Blackman in Japan.

Tokyo nightclub owner Harry Niles, an American raised in Japan by missionary parents, comes up with a plan to trick the Imperial Navy into not attacking the United States in 1941, but has a seat reserved on the last flight out of Hong Kong just in case things go wrong--as they usually do.