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So We Look to the Sky : A Novel by Misumi Kubo
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱999.00This shocking, boisterous novel was a runaway bestseller and award winner in Japan: “Pressingly real . . . In these pages, you will find the lives of all of us” (Japan Times).Searingly honest and sexually explicit, So We Look to the Sky is a novel told... -
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱999.00₱799.00(Available after March 30th, 2022)Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street... -
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World : The most moving, unforgettable book of 2021, inspired by true events by Laura Imai Messina
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱538.00The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunamiWhen Yui loses... -
The Cake Tree in the Ruins by Akiyuki Nosaka
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱599.00Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex.In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister... -
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱477.00'A terrific novel' -- Angela CarterKoko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will... -
Intermediate Japanese Short Stories : 10 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! by Lingo Mastery
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱633.00(Available after 3-20 days) Are you on your way towards learning Japanese and need a new challenge? We're constantly trying to improve and master new skills, and the Japanese language is no exception. A skill that can help open important doors in... -
Killing Kanoko / Wild Grass on the Riverbank by Hiromi Ito
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱544.00Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California desert and her native Japan, tracking migrant children who may or may not be human, or alive, Hiromi Itō's... -
Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱548.00Astral Season, Beastly Season is the debut novel by Japanese writer Tahi Saihate. The story follows Morishita and Yamashiro, two high-school boys approaching the age in life when they must choose what kind of people they want to be. When their favourite... -
The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro : 5 by Kanji Hanawa
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱599.00₱499.00(Available after 3-20 days) A Japanese tale - not about daring ninja or battling samurai - but a hero with a very different penchant. Based on an actual historical figure, the Akutagawa-nominated master short story writer, Kanji Hanawa, takes the reader... -
Spark by Naoki Matayoshi
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱532.00(Available after 3-20 days)Hilarious, strange and moving in equal measure - a Japanese multi-million-copy smash hit about the struggles of a pair of young manzai stand-up comediansTokunaga is a young comedian struggling to make a name for himself when he... -
What's Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱518.00"Each chapter of this enrapturing novel is elegantly brief and charged with barely contained emotion." —New York Times Book ReviewA gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The... -
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida : a novel of modern Japan by Clarissa Goenawan
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱516.00From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy anddark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away... -
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.002021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman—a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean authorIt’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between... -
Moshi Moshi : A Novel by Banana Yoshimoto
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱899.00₱756.00"A beautiful translation...Yoshimoto deploys a magically Japanese light touch to emotionally and existentially tough subject matter: domestic disarray, loneliness, identity issues, lovesickness...[a] nimble narrative." ―ELLEIn Moshi Moshi, Yoshie’s... -
Apparitions : Ghosts of Old Edo by Miyuki Miyabe
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱562.00(Available after 3-20 days)In old Edo, the past was never forgotten. It lived alongside the present in dark corners and in the shadows. In these tales, award-winning author Miyuki Miyabe explores the ghosts of early modern Japan and the spaces of the... -
Desire : Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱399.00₱234.00You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued... -
The Beast Warrior by Nahoko Uehashi
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱556.00Ten years after the fateful clash between two opposing sides of the Divine Kingdom of Lyoza, Elin lives a peaceful life with her family. She tries to stay as far away from her past as possible—the girl who communicated with creatures and befriended a... -
The Only Gaijin in the Village by Iain Maloney
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱541.00In 2016, in search of a simpler life, Scottish writer lain Maloney and his Japanese wife moved to a village in deepest rural Japan. Life in the countryside is a continuous cuture shock as Iain's attempts at amateur farming, basic gardening and DIY are... -
Three Tigers, One Mountain : A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱574.00From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, “Two tigers... -
The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories by Rebecca Otowa
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱699.00"Otowa has woven a series of delightful vignettes of life in Japan, from a true historical story of feuding villages to a man who steals shoes at temples…and some highlighting the cultural differences between Japanese and American sensibilities,...