Books set in Japan

A Tokyo man and a hot-spring geisha in the snowbound mountains of Echigo.

1989: a young Belgian teaches French in Tokyo and falls for her student Rinri.

A young Belgian’s year in a great Tokyo company, from translator to toilet cleaner.

1968–1970: a student in Tokyo between two young women, as the campus riots.

1929–1950s: a fisherman’s daughter sold to a geisha house in Gion, through the war.

Twin sisters parted at birth find each other again through a year of Kyoto’s festivals.

A stammering acolyte at Kinkaku-ji, obsessed with its beauty until he burns it.

1945: a man copies out his diary of the bomb to prove his niece missed the black rain.

A French actress and a Japanese architect in Hiroshima, and her wartime love in Nevers.

Six people in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August 1945, and the days after.

A Japanese widow in England remembers a summer in Nagasaki after the bomb.

A French naval officer takes a Japanese wife for a summer on the hills of Nagasaki.