Found floating on the river inside a peach by an old couple, Momotaro grows up and fights the terrible demons who have terrorized the village for years

Product Description: An old bamboo cutter finds a tiny child in the hollow of a bamboo stalk. Thus begins the beloved story of the Moon Princess, whose unearthly beauty brings her fame and would-be husbands from throughout the land, but whose destiny shines far off in the sky...read more

When tour guide Kenji is hired by Frank, an American with bizarre habits, to show him the seamier side of Tokyo's nightlife, the man's strange behavior leads Kenji to suspect that he might be the serial killer who has been terrorizing the area. Reprint.

English professor Karen Holloway finds herself in the midst of fierce competition when she attempts to track down the origins of an 18th century manuscript found on a Virginia estate, whose writer is only identified by the name Ismene

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After traveling to the Kingdom Beneath the Sea, a young fisherman thinks he has stayed three years but when he returns home, he discovers he has been gone three hundred years

Product Description: The brave little boy who sailed to the Capital in a teacup and fought a demon with a needle to win the love of a Lady is a Japanese cousin to Tom Thumb.

Found floating on the river inside a peach by an old couple, Momotaro grows up and fights the terrible demons who have terrorized the village for years

Product Description: Book by Kusama, Yayoi

Raised in a mountain forest by his lovely mother, Kintaro's gentleness and strength make all the forest creatures his friends, and win him the attention of a renowned samurai, with whom he conquers a band of demons.

Illustrated with the same detailed watercolors of the first Japanese edition, published more than fifty years ago, and retold in colloquial verse, two classic tales feature two very human animal characters.

Product Description: Ryu Murakami, along with Haruki Murakami (no relation), is one of the best-selling writers in Japan and a major figure in contemporary popular culture. Since publishing his first work, Almost Transparent Blue, which won Japan's most coveted literary prize in 1976, Ryu has produced a steady stream of novels, stories, and essays that consistently astound and delight readers with their wild flights of imagination, irreverent humor, and brilliant, convincing portraits of some of the quirkiest characters in Japanese literature...read more

After he cares for an injured sparrow, a gentle old man is richly rewarded, while his cruel and greedy wife gets what she deserves

A greedy, thoughtless monkey gets his comeuppance when the animals band together

A thieving badger meets a dreadful fate for his mistreatment of a farmer and his wife

In a poignant Japanese fable, an elderly couple's kindness to a stray dog brings them good fortune amid sorrow.

Stories deal with a man who changes into a bird, a brother and sister who share special powers, and family members who take turns telling a story

Product Description: Twenty autobiographical stories describe with honesty and self-deprecating humour the women, the suicide attempts, the drinking and the struggle against a staid literary establishment of Japan's enfant terrible.