Billie Livingston
Billie Livingston is a fiction writer, poet and sometime essayist who lives in Vancouver, B.C. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, and has since lived in Tokyo, Hamburg, Munich and London, England. Her first ... [... more]
Random House |
Kids' Trips in Tokyo: A Family Guide to One-Day Outings
This book is unbelievably great: We got this book right before moving to Tokyo for a year with our two year old daughter. We haven't been steered wrong yet - each of the tours or trips in the book we have tried so far has been a delight for us and our [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Michael Zielenziger
Before moving to Tokyo, Zielenziger served as the first Pacific Rim correspondent for The San Jose Mercury News, and was a finalist for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for a... The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once ... [... more]
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Paul Waley
Of all the world's great cities, Tokyo remains one of the least well known. Paul Waley calls forth the stories sleeping behind the glass and chrome of today's fast-paced metropolis and conjures the traces of Tokyo past overlapping Tokyo ... [... more]
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Arimasa Osawa
Detective Samejima works alone...because no one will work with him. Shunned by his peers, scorned by his superiors, and feared by the yakuza, "The Shark," as he is called, works the dangerous Shinjuku section of Tokyo. This second installment [... more]
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Melissa Perlman
studied Tibetan Buddhism in Asia for more than six years and owned a restaurant in Tokyo that served healthy California cuisine. Friends for eight years, in 2002, Melissa and Erica Gragg founded the Amansala Eco-Chic Resort and Bikini Boot Camp ... [... more]
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Gordon Ramsay
Renowned chef, restaurant empire-builder, and media celebrity Gordon Ramsay's eight London restaurants have been awarded eight Michelin stars, and he has gone global, opening restaurants in Tokyo and Dubai. Ramsay has published nine bestselling ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Adachitoka
A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicide-and becoming a lethal pandemic in less than a week. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive. Waking ... [... more]
Random House |
Lonely Planet Tokyo Encounter with Map
Excellent practical information, improved cultural suggestions: The Lonely Planet guides are very often the best when it comes to providing practical information such as maps, changing money, the best way to get from A to B, etc. This edition of the [... more]
CDN$12.95
Amazon CA |
Tokyo for Free
What, no index?: While the chapters are well written and logically organized, the absence of an index was disappointing and frustrating when we knew we had read about some item of interest somewhere in the 457 pages but could no longer locate it. Travel [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Tokyo Style File: A Shopping Guide
Not for the bargain hunter, but an interesting read.: I bought this book as I will be in Tokyo for a month and am interested in maximizing my productivity while shopping. This book promises in the forward to deliver the goods on the "cult" [... more]
CDN$18.95
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The Pocket Tokyo Subway Guide
You can do better: ý`Although the information in this book is useful as far as it goes, I didn't buy it, based on the example page showing Toromon Station. Instead, I bought Kodansha's Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide. It has the same maps, [... more]
CDN$19.95
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