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113 book trails

  • Location: Tokyo

Butter

2000s:  Inspired by a true story – a female gourmet cook and serial killer

  • Location: Kagoshima

Gate to Kagoshima

1877, 2005: A student travels to Japan and ends up time-travelling to the last days of the Samurai

  • Location: Sakhalin Island, Japan, Russia

The Hive and the Honey

Various  – The vastness and complexity of diasporic communities

  • Location: Tokyo, Kanazawa

Point Zero

1958: A man’s wife goes missing on honeymoon

  • Location: Japan, Teshima, Kamakura

The Library of Heartbeats

2023: On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats

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A Granite Silence

1934: A notorious true crime case

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