tokyo (japan)

Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers, animals, and landscapes.

When his mother dies three weeks before his high school graduation, Danny goes to Tokyo, where his mother had been going for cancer treatments, to learn about the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with her death.

A Tokyo of the future where information confers power and right, but the inhabitants have no human essence.

While heading home after a long night of work, Mishima, a pushover who works for a high-rise business in Tokyo, is involved in a train accident caused by an earthquake and must take initiative in order to save himself and the other passengers.

Batman travels to Tokyo to find the supplier of a surreal and deadly drug which allows the user to literally become one of Batman's greatest enemies for a night.

Discusses life in Tokyo including the history of Tokyo, its geographical significance, home life, education, economic role, arts and entertainment.

Twelve-year-old Akira must take care of his younger siblings after they are abandoned by their mother and left to fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce students to the history, government, geography, and economy of the city of Tokyo.

In a story told from two different viewpoints, in 1984, orphan Yoshiro Tanaka finds a strange cassette tape that, when played, awakens a blood-thirsty creature that has been slumbering for a century beneath the streets of Tokyo. That same cassette may hold the key to saving his life and ending the odd dreams he has had since he was four. Includes information about the creation of the book.