Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement. She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring...

On her sixteenth birthday, Elle Zoellner leaves the foster care system to live with the father she never knew in Tokyo, Japan.

When a massive earthquake devestates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation - except when a nobleman's daughters are found dead and their father threatens to topple the regime unless Sano Ichiro tracks down the killer. Sano and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them.

Manabu Yukawa has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town fallen on hard times. He's there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation. The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead at the base of the local cliffs. The police believe it was a simple accident. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning,...

Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. As her contract is up for renewal and she is not sure where she belongs anymore. Meanwhile, Zaniel spends his nights walking the dream world and serving his demon "bodyguard," Akki. But there is a new yokai on the scene, and it has gotten on Akki's bad side. When Cybelle gets caught up in the supernatural clash, she has to figure out what is real and, more importantly, what she really wants - before...

"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement...

"Haunted by her past, an English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing yakuza gangster in Tokyo"--From www.imdb.com.

Charlie is posted to Tokyo, and his first consular case is a successful young investment banker who winds up in a coma following a car accident. After a man claiming to be a friend of the banker turns up dead and the banker wakes from his coma with memory gaps, Charlie and Chikako Kobayashi, the police inspector assigned to the murder case, discover that trusting the banker may be a dangerous decision.