Books like Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
A woman develops a tender relationship with her former high school teacher over sake and seasonal food.
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Burned out by her high-flying career, Yeongju opens a small bookshop in a residential Seoul neighbourhood and slowly gathers a barista, a knitting regular, a lonely teenager and others who need somewhere to be.
Kitchen
A young Tokyo woman who has lost everyone is taken in by a boy and his trans mother, and cooks her way through the shape grief takes when it has nowhere to sit but a kitchen.
Sweet Bean Paste
Sentaro, an ex-convict working off a debt at a Tokyo dorayaki stall, reluctantly hires Tokue, a woman in her seventies with misshapen hands, and her homemade bean paste starts drawing customers to his counter.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a cramped basement café in Tokyo, one particular seat lets a customer travel back in time, as long as they keep to the rules and return before their coffee goes cold; four visitors take the chance to see someone again.
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime, an awkward young publishing employee with a gift for words, is recruited to the dictionary department to help compile The Great Passage, a new dictionary its editors expect to take years.
Goodbye Tsugumi
Maria spends one last summer in the seaside town where she grew up, at the family inn that is about to close, with her beautiful, sickly cousin Tsugumi, whose tongue is as cruel as her health is fragile.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
A young housekeeper goes to work for a former mathematics professor whose memory, since an accident, lasts only eighty minutes; each morning she and her ten-year-old son are strangers to him again, and he greets them with numbers.
The Healing Season of Pottery
Burned out by her job as a television writer, Jungmin, thirty, has barely left her Seoul apartment in a year when she wanders into a small pottery studio and signs up for lessons.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Satoru and Nana, the streetwise stray he took in, set off in a silver van across Japan to visit the old friends who might give Nana a home, for reasons Satoru keeps to himself.
A Quiet Life
When their novelist father takes a teaching post in California and their mother goes with him, twenty-year-old Ma-chan is left in Tokyo to keep house for her younger brother and her mentally disabled older brother, Eeyore, who composes music.