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Escape from the everyday with Miyuki Miyabe's 'Brave Story'

Books / Reviews | ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES Dec 1, 2018

Escape from the everyday with Miyuki Miyabe's 'Brave Story'

by Kris Kosaka

Miyuki Miyabe's "Brave Story" tackles pertinent adolescent issues that are juxtaposed against a supernatural realm of fantasy.

'All She Was Worth': Step into a world of loan sharks and debt in modern Japan

Books / Reviews | ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES Sep 9, 2017

'All She Was Worth': Step into a world of loan sharks and debt in modern Japan

by Kris Kosaka

Give the lingering late-summer heat the slip and duck into the shadows with "All She Was Worth," a classic Japanese crime mystery.

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