World War I in the Far East was a sideshow in the grand scheme of things, but it had long-reaching implications, setting up further conflict...

  In the distant future, humanity clusters in small villages, reduced to a medieval style of living, while monsters, demons, and vampires ro...

Naomi is a toxic love story, set in 1920s Japan, and one that is surprisingly relevant today. The novel is a classic of Japanese literature...

Since it’s Halloween season I decided to review a Japanese horror novel. Audition by the writer Ryu Murakami, is a story about a man findin...

 The Japanese immigrant experience in America is often ignored, which makes works like The Four Immigrants Manga an invaluable record, both...

 Shanghai between the world wars is a fascination of Westerns, the Chinese themselves, but also the Japanese. The zeitgeist of 1920s Shangha...

  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworth...

  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy...

  If you have been following Asian Books Blog, you’ve probably come across the name Kristine Ohkubo. Kristine is a Los Angeles-based indie-a...

Sarayu Srivasta trained as an architect and city planner in Madras and Tokyo. Her first novel, The Last Pretence , was short-listed for the...

It's spooky season again, so that means horror, specifically, horror manga. Japanese comics have a long history of horror stories, but t...

As I’ve stated many times, there’s long been a blind spot about the Asian Theater of World War II. You can stack the books written about Naz...

Los Angeles-based indie-author Kristine Ohkubo uses her work to explore topics related to Japan and Japanese culture. While growing up in Ch...

Gordon Vanstone is from Canada. After graduating with a Bachelor of Education from Simon Fraser University, he moved overseas and worked as ...

The Girl Who Played Go is a historical novel by Chinese author Shan Sa, originally published in French, translated into English. With that ...

The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura is a crime thriller set in modern-day Japan about an experienced pickpocket named Nishimura as he prowls the...

Julian Sedgwick is the author of numerous books for children and young adults, including the Mysterium and Ghosts of Shanghai trilogies, a...

Between 1983 – 1985, the celebrated artist Osamu Tezuka created one of his most underpraised manga. Adolf , also known as Message to Adolf ...

Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about The Tale of ...

  Before what we know as manga , there was kamishibai . Literally translated as “paper play ” ( 紙芝居 ) kamishibai was a popular form of ente...