The life of a young Japanese man becomes intimately intertwined with his deceased best-friend's girlfriend, as they each navigate the past in search of lost time.

Visiting Tokyo in the 1980s, a Swedish aspiring civil rights attorney from Minnesota spends her last night with a Japanese lover.

In contemporary Japan, a poor young woman finds a new approach to life in her new job: accompanying a widowed professor on trips, dressed as his dead wife.

A Japanese businessman reflects on his experience with Chinese people and longs to visit China.

In post-war Japan, an ex-soldier and his childhood neighbor continue their friendship as adults, on unequal terms.

A boy growing up during Japan’s postwar economic ascendancy comes to grips with the sudden death of his mother and the eventual passing of his blind, aging father.

After graduating from Harvard, a tall Japanese American man struggles to find his path despite growing up as a perfect, high-achieving student and athlete.

In a future where the U.S. is in a state of decline and Japan is the most powerful nation on Earth, an American salesman attempts to sell American landmarks to a Japanese tycoon. An American salesman attempts to sell of his country's landmarks, from the Statue of Liberty to Yankee Stadium, to a wealthy Japanese mogul in a future where the US is broke and Japan is in charge.

At the beginning of American occupation in Japan following World War II, an American soldier attempts to befriend a Japanese shopkeeper but finds that he can't seem to say the right thing.

A Japanese woman who has begun to forget her name, frantically seeks the help of an eccentric clinician who eventually claims to know what happened to her name.