Books like The Lantern of Lost Memories
In an old-fashioned photo studio between life and death, Mr Hirasaka helps the newly departed look back over their lives through a lantern of memories and step back into one moment to photograph it again.
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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.
Marigold Mind Laundry
Jieun, born with powers she couldn't control, has lived many lives searching for the family she lost, and now opens a laundromat in a village of marigolds where people can wash the stains of painful memories from their hearts.
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.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.
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.
Tokyo Ueno Station
The ghost of Kazu, a labourer from Fukushima who spent his last years among the homeless of Tokyo's Ueno Park, looks back on a life of work that began in the same year as the emperor's.
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Hiding out after a burglary, three young thieves take shelter in an abandoned general store, and a letter asking for advice drops through the shutter, written decades earlier, when the old owner answered every one.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Twenty-four stories from across his career, among them a waitress granted one wish on her twentieth birthday and a monkey in Shinagawa that steals people's names.
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.
After the Quake
Six stories set in the weeks after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, about people shaken by it from a distance, including a bank debt collector whom a giant frog recruits to save Tokyo from a worm underground.
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.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.