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Showing posts with label Japanese lit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese lit. Show all posts

December 4, 2025

Days at the Torunka Café by Satoshi Yagisawa ~ a Review

by Donna Huber


Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighborhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura, a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin folded into the shape of a ballerina; Hiroyuki Yumata, a middle-aged man who’s returned to the neighborhood searching for the happy life he once gave up; and Shizuku, the café owner’s teenage daughter, who is still coming to terms with her sister’s death as she falls in love for the first time.

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October 22, 2025

Best Wishes from The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki ~ a Review

by Donna Huber


What are they truly wishing for? In Best Wishes from The Full Moon Coffee Shop, the characters confront their past and present struggles while trying to find happiness and contentment in their lives.

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August 15, 2020

In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow by Kenneth W. Harmon ~ a Review

by MK French


Micah Lund dies during a mission over Hiroshima, and his spirit follows a young widow and her daughter. Watching over Kyomi and Ai gives him more understanding of the people he had thought were the enemy, and he feels guilty about his part in the war. He can interact with them in dreams and now needs to warn them about the upcoming bombings.

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