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Although this book is autobiagraphiCAL, it is not an autobiograPHY. It is the story of how I eventually wound up becoming a professor of the English Language at a small conservative Catholic women's college in Kyoto, Japan, and the many incidents that would lead up to that career that would… Read More

Tags: japan, careers, life-changes, language-teaching, antioch-college

Book / Historical Fiction

December 29, 2019

Reads: 1858

Comments: 14

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Fed up with his dreary life in Japan, David is contemplating going back to the States when his friend John makes an absolutely crazy suggestion. [AUTHOR'S NOTE: I am absolutely amazed at the number of "reads" this book has gotten when it is clearly stated that it is "in progress".… Read More

Tags: romance, japan, gaijin, travel-in-japan, japan-1970s

Book / Horror

December 02, 2019

Reads: 102

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

In Tokyo, 1972, Ryo, a Japanese carer, works at a nursing home for the elderly. According to the realtor, Mister Tan, it is allegedly haunted by ghosts from centuries past. This is a new version of an older story I wrote several years' ago. Read More

Tags: horror, ghosts, japan, nursing-home

Tags: childhood, flash-fiction, japan, trains

After first publishing this as 'Four Seasons or Five' I changed the title to 'Seasons Regrets'. I hope you'll agree it's more appropriate. Read More

Tags: japan, rainy-season, team-teaching

Tags: japan, tokyo, gaijin

Cross-cultural misunderstanding. Read More

Tags: romance, flash-fiction, japan, cross-cultural

I'll post the first few chapters of my upcoming novel, it's still in progress so please leave a comment if you read it so i can learn from them. Thank you! www.vanloynick.be A young man trying to cure his depression in the city of lights, finds himself trapped in a… Read More

Tags: depression, japan, tokyo, yakuza, pachinko

Taiyo Yamazaki and five other astronaut candidates enter a cave beneath the Australian tropics as part of a mock mission to prove their worth. But when disaster strands them they find they are not alone… (A stand-alone chapter from Tribulation (550AU Book 1)) Read More

Tags: creepy, nature, australia, thriller, japan

This is one of those times, where trying to explain this can be more difficult that just showing you. The world is full of magic, monsters and things we either don't believe or can't believe. Would you believe me if I told you I had seen it all? I have… Read More

Tags: mystery, drama, japan, anime, slice-of-life

From the book description: Reading and writing Japanese is a challenge. Let this easy-to-use guide help accelerate your progress! "Read and Write Japanese Starting with Hiragana" is the latest update to "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Hiragana", a reliable reference for Japanese learners since 2007. Sections have been rewritten and expanded… Read More

Tags: japanese, japan, hiragana, japanese-language, language-study

Poem / Poetry

April 24, 2019

Reads: 115

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

All the haiku I wrote during my trip to Japan. Read More

Tags: haiku, japan, nara, kyoto, osaka

Book / Fantasy

April 16, 2019

Reads: 723

Comments: 12

Shelves: 1

The Historical Fantasy House

Leda, a young woman who moved to Japan to escape her abusive family, is slowly adjusting to her new life. She's learning Japanese, making friends, and enjoying the summer festivals. On the day of the famous Tanabata festival, she finds a small shrine - but when she steps out of… Read More

Tags: japanese, japan, samurai, time-travel, edo

Featured Review by B Douglas Slack

"The adventure is moving along nicely, Guenevere. Your pacing is very good. Bill " Read More

Book / Science Fiction

February 16, 2019

Reads: 2170

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Jurgen has a headache that won't go away. He knows his fellow scientist Simon is watching him, waiting for him to be careless and kill another rat. Ben knows all about these mistakes, and more. But he's online, always online, talking with others. He's in trouble and doesn't know how… Read More

Tags: science-fiction, thriller, japan, neuroscience, computer-games

Essay / Editorial and Opinion

December 26, 2018

Reads: 286

Comments: 8

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Japan has announced that it will resume whale hunting from 1st July 2019. Read More

Tags: hunting, japan, intentions, whales

Featured Review by Celtic-Scribe63

"Yet again, man goes about killing and slaughtering defenceless animals, in the most barbaric ways. there is no defence or argument for this dis..." Read More

A retro drug dealer in a future Japan tries to ply his trade without getting busted. Read More

Tags: cyberpunk, flash, japan, scifi

Book / True Confessions

October 04, 2018

Reads: 675

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

I'm a 28-year-old, shut-in, anti-social, anime otaku, gaming, yuri-loving, NEET... what can go wrong? Read More

Tags: family, japan, funny, sister, korea

Five years has passed since Emma's disappearance. During the New years, Annie, Archie, Stear and Patty decided to start their search for their long lost friend. Their only clue about Emma lies in Joe, the mysterious boy who is a close friend of Emma. Will Annie and her friends be… Read More

Tags: japanese, teenage, usa, search, japan

Book / Fantasy

August 30, 2018

Reads: 238

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A paranoid boy from a world of oppression and deceit finds himself a new beginning after the end of the world he once called home and an arrogant fox spirit to keep him company in a world where magic exists, the catholic church has almost full control of Europe,… Read More

Tags: magic, action, japan, anime, light-novel

Essay / Non-Fiction

July 04, 2018

Reads: 234

Comments: 3

The Booksie Classic House

Economies experience tremendous variability throughout their history. Greece and Japan are examples of countries that have been around in some form for millennia. Recently, austerity was forced on Greece as a condition of financial rescue; Japan has been in a protracted recession. Japan pursued a Keynesian framework to deal… Read More

Tags: japan, greece, eu, austerity, economies

She is a girl of many names, stripped of her titles, ranks, and power. From the moment her mother was murdered on that cold, cold morning, staining the snow red, Anomie lost the freedoms she had before. Oiran can't love for themselves, eat for themselves, laugh for themselves, or… Read More

Tags: fantasy, prostitution, japan, culture, chinese

Tags: japan, tokyo, yuri, whitepink, chitose

Jayan is an English teacher and he decided to settle down in the big neighborhood of Minato-Ku, in Japan. Read More

Tags: gay, fiction, novel, dear, japan

Tags: japan, sengoku, samurai-warriors

What is the meaning of life. We search for the answer all our life, but do we actually find it? Or do we give up and settle for less. Jon has always wanted a girlfriend. Yes he is one of those person who never had one though. However he… Read More

Tags: japan

I did kendo for a short time when I was young, but it was too expensive to pursue further, and did judo instead, but it always intrigued me, along with my love of manga. This was a story idea I had for a very long time, so I thought… Read More

Tags: japan, tokyo, kendo, weaboo, weeb

Poem / Horror

May 03, 2018

Reads: 385

Shelves: 1

The blue wolves House

This is a poem of a piece of Japanese propaganda I found. Read More

Tags: america, japan, propaganda, anime, presidents

They say your life flashes before you in that moment before death. I could see it all reflected back at me in the cold merciless blade. I was standing under the cherry blossoms at my elementary school entrance ceremony, eating cake at my sister's wedding, standing outside praying the monster… Read More

Tags: love, fantasy, vampire, death, japanese, fiction, school, high, romance, life, murder, mystery, ghost, free, monster

Tags: japan, taylormckenzie

Tags: travel, japan, taylormckenzie

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