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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

ISBN 0375713271 (0-375-71327-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in After the Quake are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of Jules and Jim. There's a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that's never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There's no turning back for his people; there's only before and after the quake. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Blue
by Kiriko Nananan, Kazuichi Hanawa

ISBN 8493340979 (84-933409-7-9)
Softcover, Fanfare

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Cronica Del Pajaro/bird Chronicles
by Haruki Murakami, Lourdes Porta Fuentes, Jun'ichi Matsuura

ISBN 8483101718 (84-8310-171-8)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor

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Tooru Okada, un joven japonés que acaba de dejar voluntariamente su trabajo en un bufete de abogados, recibe un buen día la llamada anónima de una mujer. A partir de ese momento la vida de Tooru, que había transcurrido por los cauces de la más absoluta normalidad, empieza a sufrir una extraña transformación. A su alrededor van apareciendo personajes cada vez más extraños, y la realidad, o lo real, va degradándose hasta convertirse en algo fantasmagórico.

The masterpiece of Japanese cult writer Haruki Murakami, the story of Tooru Okada, a young lawyer whose life begins to undergo a bizarre transformation. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle presents a collection of characters as surprising as they are real. [via]
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December 6
by Martin Cruz Smith

ISBN 0671775928 (0-671-77592-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Ever wonder how things might have been different for Rick Blaine, the ostensibly selfish nightclub owner from Casablanca, had he lived in Japan during the 1940s, rather than Morocco? Martin Cruz Smith offers a reasonable scenario in December 6.
This slickly plotted, exotically atmospheric thriller opens in Tokyo just a few days before bombs start raining on Pearl Harbor. There we meet roguish Harry Niles, the culturally conflicted son of religious missionaries and owner of the Happy Paris, a club known for its enigmatic jukebox jockey, Michiko, who also happens to be Harry's mistress. With war rumors rampant, Harry--distrusted by both U.S. and Japanese authorities--"was skipping town. Any sane person would." He has a seat waiting on what may be the final flight out to Hong Kong, and plans to escape from there to the States with a British diplomat's wife. But first, there are business and personal affairs to settle, not the least of which is an oil-tank con he's been running on the Imperial Navy--a desperate strategy to stop his beloved Japan from entering into self-destructive conflict with America. Harry also has to duck a sword-wielding military fanatic, who's seeking revenge for a long-ago incident that cost him honor, and bid sayonara to Michiko, a woman as scary as she is seductive. (Oh, well, at least they'll always have the Happy Paris.)
This book memorably re-creates wartime Tokyo, with its pet beetles and mincing geishas and naive belief that "victory lies in a faith in victory." Yet it's Harry Niles--cynical on top, sentimental beneath--who really carries December 6, a novel as brilliantly convoluted and captivating as any Smith (Gorky Park , Havana Bay ) has yet concocted. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Dreaming Pachinko
by Isaac Adamson

ISBN 0060516232 (0-06-051623-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Fresh Fruits
by Schoichi Aoki, Shoichi Aoki

ISBN 0714845108 (0-7148-4510-8)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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Fruits
by Shoichi Aoki

ISBN 0714840831 (0-7148-4083-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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If you ever wondered where the catwalk got its claws, then the portraits gathered in photographer Shoichi Aoki's book Fruits, from the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo, point the way to an extraordinarily imaginative and invariably stunning glut of mongrel fashion heists. A best-of collection from the fanzine of the same name, and published for the first time outside Japan, Fruits keeps its style clean: front-on, razor-sharp images, ranging from the deadpan to the manic, of the sharpest collages of sartorial influence that, usually, little money can buy. From off the peg to off the wall, kitsch to bitch, each person bears a combination and philosophy as distinctive as DNA. All shades of aesthetic are raided, with exquisite, scrupulous attention to detail. Punk is a favorite, as is, appropriately, Vivienne Westwood, alongside Milk and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and the occasional Comme des Garçons. Many of the outfits, though, are second-hand or self-assembly, such as a skirt drooping petals of men's silk ties, Wa-mono, when tradition Japanese clothes are topped with, say, an authentic bowler hat, EGL (elegant gothic Lolita), and a swathe of tartans, pinks, and turquoises. The most malleable feature, unsurprisingly, is hair, with dreadlocks, mohicans, back-combing, and crops dyed an irradiated spectrum. While the eye is drawn, obediently, to the mannequins, the background is often worth a look, either for the vending machines against which a number are shot, or the ubiquitous Gap store and bags, a constant reminder of the global mass market.
One enterprising man wears a genuine British paperboy's delivery bag, and, to pick but one profile, Princess, 18, is trying to be a doll and is currently preoccupied with body organs. Mmm. All the subjects are asked the source of their clothes, as well as their "point of fashion" and "current obsession." The scope for sociopsychological discussion is vast, particularly with the preponderance of infantilization, through dolls, bonnets, pop socks, and Barbie, but this is a joyous documentation of the innovative, celebrating the inspirational polytheism of street fashion, captured with provocative, political zeal. Best let the street cats prowl. --David Vincent [via]
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum

ISBN 0679743464 (0-679-74346-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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By the author of "A Wild Sheep Chase", which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers, this novel combines science-fiction, satire and a warning of the dangerous powers of corporations. [via]
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Hiroshige in Tokyo: The Floating World of Edo
by Julian Bicknell

ISBN 1566408032 (1-56640-803-2)
Hardcover, Pomegranate

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Insight City Guide Tokyo
by Brian Bell

ISBN 9814137596 (981-4137-59-6)
Softcover, Insight Guides

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Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto

ISBN 8472233863 (84-7223-386-3)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Lonely Planet Condensed Tokyo
by John Ashburne

ISBN 1740590694 (1-74059-069-4)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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Lonely Planet Tokyo
by Chris Rowthorn

ISBN 0864425678 (0-86442-567-8)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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Lonely Planet Tokyo
by John Ashburne, Chris Rowthorn

ISBN 1740590597 (1-74059-059-7)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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Details on accommodation, restaurant and entertainment options for all budgets and interests, local excursions, from climbing Mount Fuji to the shrines of Nikko are included in this text. Information on getting around quickly and easily, is also included, as are walking tours. [via]
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Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake
by Edward Seidensticker

ISBN 0674539397 (0-674-53939-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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This book looks at the metamorphosis of Japan from a country with little contact with the outside world to one brimming with Western ideas and technologies. Seidensticker focuses on Tokyo in the years between the Meiji Restoration and the earthquake of 1923 to illustrate this change. He shows how Tokyo, which was called Edo until 1867, emerged from being the shogun's capital and the biggest city in a country which had been closed to the outside world for two and a half centuries, to a modern city, open to Western ideas. [via]
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Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake, 1867-1923
by Edward G. Seidensticker

ISBN 0394507304 (0-394-50730-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Man of Many Faces
by Clamp, Jamie S. Rich, Ikoi Hiroe

ISBN 1591822998 (1-59182-299-8)
Softcover, Tokyopop

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Megatokyo
by Fred Gallagher, Rodney Caston, Dominic Nguyen

ISBN 1593071639 (1-59307-163-9)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics

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  Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
Mini Rough Guide to Tokyo

ISBN 1858283477 (1-85828-347-7)
Softcover, Rough Guides

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Mini Rough Guide to Tokyo
by Rough Guides

ISBN 185828712X (1-85828-712-X)
Softcover, Rough Guides

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Neuromancer
by William Gibson

ISBN 1569564116 (1-56956-411-6)
Softcover, William a Thomas Braille

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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." William Gibson's Neuromancer starts out with one of the great opening lines in all of fiction and never lets up. This is the novel that introduced the term "cyberspace," and it remains one of the most vibrant and compelling looks at the world being built by computers and information technology.
Plus, it tells a great story. Case is a top-line hacker who made one mistake that cost him his greatest love. To get it back, he agrees to work for people who in turn are working for an artificial intelligence named Wintermute. Wintermute wants freedom, and Case is the man who can do the job. (Some of the secondary characters, including Molly from "Johnny Mnemonic," will be familiar to readers of Gibson's short stories.) The intensity never lets up as Gibson creates a world that is one of the most distinctive in science fiction. And the story is told in a high-tech poetic prose style that owes as much to William S. Burroughs as it does to Gibson's predecessors in SF. The end result is a book that is both stylistically creative and thoroughly gripping in its unfolding adventure. In short, Neuromancer packs more ideas into its 250 pages than most writers can manage in a 900-page trilogy. It was hailed as an instant classic when first published as an Ace Science Fiction Special in 1984, winning the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards, and it remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever written. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Noruwei No Mori
by Haruki Murakami

ISBN 4062035162 (4-06-203516-2)
Hardcover, Kodansha

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Noruwei no mori, Vol. 2 (Japanese Edition) by Murakami, Haruki [via]
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Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami

ISBN 1860468004 (1-86046-800-4)
Softcover, Random House

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In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets. And now he's finally authorized a translation for the English-speaking audience, turning to the estimable Jay Rubin, who did a fine job with his big-canvas production The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Readers of Murakami's later work will discover an affecting if atypical novel, and while the author himself has denied the book's autobiographical import--"If I had simply written the literal truth of my own life, the novel would have been no more than fifteen pages long"--it's hard not to read as at least a partial portrait of the artist as a young man.
Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the novel's backdrop. But the focus here is the young Watanabe's love affairs, and the pain and pleasure and attendant losses of growing up. The collapse of a romance (and this is one among many!) leaves him in a metaphysical shambles:
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
This account of a young man's sentimental education sometimes reads like a cross between Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women. It is less complex and perhaps ultimately less satisfying than Murakami's other, more allegorical work. Still, Norwegian Wood captures the huge expectation of youth--and of this particular time in history--for the future and for the place of love in it. It is also a work saturated with sadness, an emotion that can sometimes cripple a novel but which here merely underscores its youthful poignancy. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Number 9 Dream
by David Mitchell

ISBN 0812966929 (0-8129-6692-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Number9dream
by David Mitchell

ISBN 0375507264 (0-375-50726-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Overture
by Clamp

ISBN 1569319502 (1-56931-950-2)
Softcover, Viz Media

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Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson

ISBN 0425192938 (0-425-19293-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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With Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, the man who introduced cyberpunk to the world, gives us his first novel set in the present. But as Gibson's imagination makes clear, our corporation-dominated, technologically advanced reality doesn't need much tweaking to take on the aura of science fiction.
If there's a fantastical element to this, the author's eighth book, it's in protagonist Cayce Pollard's special talent. Here, Gibson takes some of No Logo author Naomi Klein's ideas about branding to a logical extreme: Pollard has an instinctual, often violently intense reaction to logos, a condition that makes her valuable to advertising agencies looking for the most effective way to brand a product. This talent, however, makes a trip to a department store potentially lethal, as when she visits a London shopping emporium and is inundated by "a mountainside of Tommy [Hilfiger] coming down in her head." "Some people ingest a single peanut and their head swells like a basketball," writes Gibson. "When it happens to Cayce, it's her psyche.... When it starts, it's pure reaction, like biting down hard on a piece of foil." Pollard is also a "coolhunter" of the first order, which means she can sniff out a trend before it's even begun to be commodified. She's so good, in fact, that "she's met the very Mexican who first wore his baseball cap backwards."
With such sensitivity to our over-branded world, it's completely natural that our heroine would become fascinated by Internet footage of a film in which characters, setting, and time are completely generic--unbranded, unfixed, free. But Pollard isn't the only one obsessed by "the footage," as it's referred to, and this is where Gibson's masterful storytelling comes to the fore. Who will be the first to solve the mystery of the film's origin? Who else is trying, and for what potentially nefarious purpose? As usual the author proves adept at weaving a suspenseful narrative out of humdrum elements, such as e-mail exchanges. If there's a caveat, it's that, as with literary forefather Philip K. Dick, the Vancouver-based author's prose veers wildly from the poetic to the clunky. And his supporting characters often amount to nothing more than a combination of an unusual name and shadowy motive. But the continual barrage of ideas, and the way Gibson arranges them for maximum impact, make for a gripping and insightful glimpse into our hyperdriven consumer culture. --Shawn Conner [via]
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Prelude
by Clamp

ISBN 1569319499 (1-56931-949-9)
Softcover, Viz Media

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As part of the X/1999 series, this volume features breathless action and stunning art. When Kamui returns to Tokyo, he learns that his childhood girlfriend Kotori and psychic Princess Hitoni are having strange dreams about his role in a coming apocalypse! Is he the angel of salvation, or the devil of destruction? [via]
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Rain Fall
by Barry Eisler

ISBN 045120915X (0-451-20915-X)
Softcover, Signet

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John Rain, a Japanese American konketsu, or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who's now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA's station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had--a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan's ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be Kawamura's daughter. In this taut, brilliantly paced debut thriller, set in a vividly rendered Tokyo, the author manages an unlikely feat; he earns the reader's sympathy and concern for his protagonist, an amoral assassin who is one of most compelling characters in recent crime fiction. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Rough Guide To Tokyo
by Simon Richmond, Rough Guides

ISBN 1843532778 (1-84353-277-8)
Softcover, Rough Guides

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The Scarlet Gang Of Asakusa
by Donald Richie, Yasunari Kawabata, Alisa Freedman, Samuro Ota, Ota Saburo

ISBN 0520241827 (0-520-24182-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what Montmartre had been to 1890s Paris and Times Square was to be to 1940s New York. Available in English for the first time, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, captures the decadent allure of this entertainment district, where beggars and teenage prostitutes mixed with revue dancers and famous authors. Originally serialized in a Tokyo daily newspaper in 1929 and 1930, this vibrant novel uses unorthodox, kinetic literary techniques to reflect the raw energy of Asakusa, seen through the eyes of a wandering narrator and the cast of mostly female juvenile delinquents who show him their way of life. Markedly different from Kawabata's later work, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa shows this important writer in a new light. The annotated edition of this little-known literary gem includes the original illustrations by Ota Saburo. The annotations illuminate Tokyo society and Japanese literature, bringing this fascinating piece of Japanese modernism at last to a wide audience.
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Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami, J. Philip Gabriel, Philip Gabriel

ISBN 0375726055 (0-375-72605-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."
The narrator is a teacher whose only close friend is Sumire, an aspiring young novelist with chronic writer's block. Sumire is suddenly smitten with a sophisticated businesswoman and accompanies her love object to Europe where, on a tiny Greek island, she disappears "like smoke." The schoolteacher hastens to the island in search of his friend. And there he discovers two documents on her computer, one of which reveals a chilling secret about Sumire's lover.
Sputnik Sweetheart is a melancholy love story, and its deceptively simple prose is saturated with sadness. Characters struggle to connect with one another but never quite succeed. Like the satellite of the title they are essentially alone. And by toning down the pyrotechnics of his earlier work, Murakami has created a world that is simultaneously mundane and disturbing--where doppelgängers and vanishing cats produce a pervasive atmosphere of alienation, and identity itself seems like a terribly fragile thing. --Simon Leake [via]
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  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
by Ted Lawson

ISBN 1574885081 (1-57488-508-1)
Hardcover, Brassey's Inc

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AMERICA STRIKES BACK!
After Pearl Harbor, America seemed to have lost the war before it had begun. Allied forces were being beaten across the Pacific by the Japanese military juggernaut, and morale was at the breaking point. America desperately needed to strike back at the enemy. For this, a corps of heroic volunteer fliers led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle began training to attack the very heart of the Japanese Empire -- Tokyo.
To succeed, the "Tokyo Raiders" would have to launch sixteen fully loaded B-25 twin-engine medium bombers off the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet -- something never done before -- and land at airfields in China. Through courage and luck, the raid itself went flawlessly. But bad weather, lack of fuel, and darkness worked against many of the pilots -- and for many, escaping China proved even more perilous than the mission....
This gripping eyewitness account -- hailed as "the most stirring story of individual heroism that [the war] has so far produced" (The New York Times) -- is one of the most daring missions in military aviation history: the legendary Doolittle Raid.

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Tokyo
by Jonathan Moberly

ISBN 3895082864 (3-89508-286-4)
Softcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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Tokyo: A Guide to Recent Architecture is one in a series of lovely little guides to many of the world's major cities created by British publisher Ellipsis. The information contained here ranges from brief perspectives on the city's architectural history to tips on which maps are best for visitors and how to navigate the local public transit system. The book considers architecture not as something that happens on isolated building sites, but rather as social, cultural, and political phenomena. At four inches square, this highly portable book is an ideal travel companion.
Some of the other books in the series cover Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, and New York City. Each guidebook has its own flavor, as different writers--usually architects--cover each city. --Loren E. Baldwin [via]
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Tokyo: A Certain Style
by Kyoichi Tsuzuki

ISBN 0811824233 (0-8118-2423-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc

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Tokyo Babylon
by Clamp

ISBN 1591828724 (1-59182-872-4)
Softcover, Tokyopop

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Graphic Novel. TokyoPop. [via]
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Tokyo Babylon
by Carol Fox, Clamp, Mokona Apapa, Ray Yoshimoto, Nanase Okawa

ISBN 1591828716 (1-59182-871-6)
Softcover, Tokyopop

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Tokyo Babylon is a modern-day fantasy that follows Subaru Sumeragi, a young onmyouji (spiritual medium) on his quest to protect Tokyo from the evil spirits that have secretly taken residence in the city. Subaru is the 13th head of the Sumeragi clan, and together with his twin sister Hokuto and the mysterious veterinarian Seishirou, they risk life and limb as they hunt down the ghosts that threaten to destroy the city. Combining CLAMP's legendary storytelling and artwork, this introspective, character-driven series is a perfect dose of imaginative intrigue and mind-blowing adventure. [via]
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Tokyo Babylon 5
by Clamp

ISBN 1417683422 (1-4176-8342-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Tokyo Babylon 5
by Tohru Fujisawa

ISBN 1595320490 (1-59532-049-0)
Softcover, Tokyopop

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Great pencils at work...!!! [via]
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Tokyo Babylon 6
by Clamp

ISBN 1417683430 (1-4176-8343-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide
by Kodansha International

ISBN 4770025033 (4-7700-2503-3)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc

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This atlas of Tokyo city contains five colour maps with names in both English and Japanese orthography. Central district maps in 1:8000 scale and suburban district maps in 1:28,000 scale. Maps of the Tokyo metropolitan rail system, underground system and administrative ward are included. [via]
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Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake
by Edward Seidensticker

ISBN 0674894618 (0-674-89461-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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The Great Earthquake of 1923 left much of Tokyo desolate. Shitamachi, the Low City, heart of Tokyo's cultural life for centuries, was a smoking ruin--hundreds of blocks of wooden dwellings, teahouses, and entertainment quarters gone forever. Yet Tokyo was a city that would not die. Here, in his brilliant sequel to "Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake," Edward Seidensticker carries the story of this irrepressible metropolis forward to the present, showing it rising not only from the disaster of the earthquake but a second time, from the still more serious catastrophe of 1945, to become a city in which skyscrapers stand in the midst of neighborhoods jammed full of little bars and "soaplands," baseball is the national sport, one can spend $500 on a meal, the best subway system in the world is matched by the worst traffic jams, and only a multimillionaire can afford to buy a house. Exciting, horrifying, utterly distinctive, modern Tokyo comes to life in "Tokyo Rising" as never before. [via]
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Underground
by Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami, J. Philip Gabriel, Philip Gabriel

ISBN 0375725806 (0-375-72580-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.

In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakamis brilliant novels. [via]
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami

ISBN 1860464696 (1-86046-469-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr

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Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.
Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake [via]
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X/1999
by Clamp

ISBN 1591160502 (1-59116-050-2)
Softcover, Viz

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In the battle of the Seven Seals and the Seven Harbingers, the casualties begin to pile up. Yuzuriha Nekoi and her dog spirit Inuki face off against expert hacker Satsuki with her supercomputer "The Beast." Included is a special Karen Kasumi story. [via]
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X/1999: Nocturne
by Not Available

ISBN 1591165962 (1-59116-596-2)
Softcover, Viz

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X/1999 Overture
by Clamp

ISBN 1569311897 (1-56931-189-7)
Softcover, Viz

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X/1999 Prelude
by Clamp

ISBN 1569311382 (1-56931-138-2)
Softcover, Viz

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As part of the X/1999 series, this volume features breathless action and stunning art. When Kamui returns to Tokyo, he learns that his childhood girlfriend Kotori and psychic Princess Hitoni are having strange dreams about his role in a coming apocalypse! Is he the angel of salvation, or the devil of destruction? [via]
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X/1999 Requiem
by Clamp

ISBN 1569318565 (1-56931-856-5)
Softcover, Viz

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X/1999 Rhapsody
by Clamp

ISBN 156931568X (1-56931-568-X)
Softcover, Viz

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X/1999 demands your attention. This title is a self-contained, intellectual series that ... entice[s] readers with the beauty of its art and the seriousness of the story. EX: The Online World of Anime and Manga [via]
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