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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.
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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.
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.
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.
The Easy Life in Kamusari
Fresh out of high school with no plans, Yuki Hirano is packed off by his teacher and his mother to a forestry training scheme in Kamusari, a remote mountain village with no phone signal where life runs on the seasons and the trees.
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.
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 Guest Cat
A couple in their thirties, both writers, rent a cottage in the grounds of an old Tokyo house, and a neighbour's cat named Chibi begins visiting, and then staying.
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.
The Cat Who Saved Books
Grieving the grandfather who raised him, reclusive high-schooler Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the family's secondhand bookshop when a talking tabby cat appears and asks for his help rescuing books from the people who imprison them.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
Tomura, a quiet boy from a mountain village in Hokkaido, hears a piano tuner at work in his school gym and decides to become one, apprenticing himself to a small piano shop.
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.