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Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Find your own way to inner peace with the wisdom of JapanBy Yoda Hiroko A wise and joyful journey through Japan's spiritual traditions, and how they can help bring us comfort and happiness today. Review by Laurence Green
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Summer at Mount AsamaBy Matsuie Masashi A group of architects compete to design Tokyo’s new National Library of Modern Literature in a novel that elegantly brings together love, art, and life in the shadow of Mount Asama. Review by Tabitha Carver
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Edogawa Ranpo's Mystery Storehouse (vol.2)By various authors Second volumen of thise anthology of short stories written by authors contemporaries of Japan's master of the macabre, Edogawa Ranpo, who kept a vast book collection in an old storehouse on the grounds of his property in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Review by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif
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A Modern Economic History of Japan: Sho Ga Nai (It Is What It Is)By Russell Jones This book offers a concise and accessible overview of Japan’s economic development from the late nineteenth century to the present, examining both its remarkable growth and subsequent challenges. Review by Sanae Inagaki
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The Woman DiesBy Matsuda Aoko Bold, electrifying, and wickedly funny, Matsuda Aoko’s The Woman Dies slices with razor-sharp deftness through the everyday sexism woven into modern Japanese life. Review by Laurence Green
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The Devil’s DiscipleBy Hamao Shiro With this volume, Hamao can be well and truly added to the pantheon of other classic Japanese crime writers gradually being resurrected from the mists of the past. Review by Laurence Green
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Popular Hits of the Showa EraBy Murakami Ryu In Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Murakami Ryu presents to us a bizarre and violent conversation between generation and gender in post-war Japan. Review by Tabitha Carver
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Harlequin ButterflyBy EnJoe Toh Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Harlequin Butterfly takes us on a Möbius strip-shaped journey about language, creation, writing and imagination. Review by Conor Hodges
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Phantom LightsBy Miyamoto Teru Phantom Lights is a short story collection comprised of eight stories linked thematically by personal hardship, all employing a nonlinear narrative structure to describe how these hardships affect characters on a lifelong timescale. Review by Lachlan Evans
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EclipseBy Hirano Keiichiro Part historical odyssey, part philosophical meditation, Eclipse immerses readers in the mysticism of medieval Europe while asking probing questions that still haunt us today. Review by Laurence Green