Query: Books that are about Japan and Tokyo but are not Japanese
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Shopping (novel)
1945 (Conroy novel)
Tokyo Fiancée
Pattern Recognition (novel)
Number9dream
One Morning Like a Bird
Tokyo Vice
Tokyo (novel)
Tuvalu (novel)
Evidence from documents: 1945 (Conroy novel): but are not Japanese: alternate history novel by Michigan economics professor Robert Conroy
and Tokyo: followed by an invasion of Honshu (codenamed Coronet) with the ultimate goal of capturing Tokyo.
Books that are about Japan: Imperial Japanese Army officers and troops led by Major Kenji Hatanaka seize the Imperial Palace to prevent the surrender of Japan.
Tokyo Fiancée: '''''Tokyo Fiancée''''' ( "Neither Eve nor Adam") is a novel by the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb. It appeared on 20 August 2007 published by Éditions Albin Michel.
Pattern Recognition (novel): The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet.
Number9dream: but are not Japanese: '''''number9dream''''' is the second novel by English author David Mitchell.
Books that are about Japan: Set in Japan, the 2001 novel narrates 19-year-old Eiji Miyake's search for his father, whom he has never met.
Tokyo: Eiji waits inside a café in front of the Panopticon building in Tokyo. Akiko Kato, his father's lawyer, works in the building. Eiji plans to meet her and find out who his father is.
One Morning Like a Bird: and Tokyo but are not Japanese: Yuji Takano is a writer in 1940s Tokyo
Books that are about Japan: it is an "imaginative and profound reflection on Japanese identity in the early days of the Second World War"
Tokyo Vice: '''''Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan''''' is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, ''Yomiuri Shinbun''.
Tokyo (novel): '''''Tokyo''''' is a 2004 novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder. It was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, as well as several others. (For the US market, the title was changed to "''The Devil of Nanking''," which had been Hayder's working-title for the book.) ''Tokyo'' was reviewed by the internationally read UK newspaper, the Guardian as well as by Kirkus Reviews under its US title.
The story is about a young woman (nicknamed 'Grey' by a fellow mental hospital patient) who is obsessed with the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking, also known as the Rape of Nanking. She travels to Japan in order to find a professor said to have rare footage of the massacre detailing an event that she could not otherwise prove occurred.
Tuvalu (novel): The novel is set mostly in Tokyo and tells the story of a young Australian teacher of English, and his relationship with two women