In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. T[...]

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philander[...]

A provocative compendium of photographs journeys inside the fantasy rooms of the Japanese love hotel, capturing an array of theme rooms, designed to be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, that range from a simulated subway car to a religious bondage room.[...]

In the wake of the brutal murders of two Tokyo prostitutes, Yuriko and Kazue, Yuriko's older sister describes the three women's youth and education at a prestigious girls' high school, where a strict social hierarchy and rigid societal conventions determine the courses of their lives. Reprint. 30,00[...]

In a place like no other, on an island in the shape of a tear drop, two sisters are born into a family of the oracle. Kamikuu, with creamy skin and almond eyes, is admired far and wide; Namima, small but headstrong, learns to live in her sister's shadow. On her sixth birthday, Kamikuu is presented w[...]

I Tokyos förorter arbetar fyra kvinnor nattskiftet på en fabrik som tillverkar färdigpacketerade luncher. Tyngda av sysslor och stora skulder och isolerade från män och barn drömmer de om en väg ut ur den återvändsgränd som deras liv utgör.

En ung mor bland dem brister till slu[...]