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After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
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Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country . . . until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in a collapsed trench during a bomb raid. She wonders if it would have been better to have died that day . . . until she meets Taro. A song will bring them together. The war will tear them apart. Is it possible...
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Kimi Nakamura loves nothing more than transforming the outfits of her friends into expressions of their "Ultimate Selves" but her mother thinks it is a waste of time. After a huge fight, Kimi makes the decision to accept her grandparents' invitation to Kyoto where she is surrounded by her heritage, which is simultaneously foreign and familiar, and the environment helps her understand her mother better than ever before.
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"Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries...When her failure to control her Shinigami abilities drives Ren out of London, she flees to Japan to seek the acceptance she's never gotten from her fellow Reapers. Accompanied by her younger brother, the only being on earth to care for her, Ren enters the Japanese underworld to serve the Goddess of Death, only to learn that here, too, she must prove herself worthy"--
10) Tokyo heist
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After a high-profile art heist of three van Gogh drawings in her home town of Seattle, sixteen-year-old Violet Rossi finds herself in Japan with her artist father, searching for the related van Gogh painting.
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On the first day at a Japanese high school, an irrepressible girl announces her lack of interest in "ordinary humans" and proceeds to form a club dedicated to finding aliens, time travelers, and other forms of supernatural life, with the intention of having fun with them.
16) Train*train: 3
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Arena's past seems to be catching up with her as her grandfather puts a bounty on her head! On the run from bounty hunters and even her fellow students, the spunky heroine fears that she may be losing her edge.
17) Manga touch
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Dana is excited about her school trip to Japan despite the fact that she is surrounded by the Melly Mob, the in- crowd of kids who make fun of her. Dana is certain she will be less of an outsider in Japan, home of manga and anime.
18) Train*train: 2
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On the one hand is Asahi, so poor he subsists on bread crusts. On the other hand is Hokuto, so rich he comes to work by helicopter if it looks like he'll be late. Will this chasm in their economic differences cause Kaiji to lose it?! What will happen when Asahi and Hokuto temporarily switch places?!
19) Train*train: 1
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Asahi Sarutaa has worked hard to realize his dream of working as a train attendant at Minami Kitazawa Station. The naive Asahi is unaware, though, of Minami's policy to hire only the most handsome of attendants. He finds this out quickly, when he meets his co-workers for the first time and sees that they are all sparkling beauties!