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The Kamogawa Food Detectives  (Kamogawa Food Detectives #1) by Hisashi Kashiwai       ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Talk about food for the soul! An out of the way, humble diner in Kyoto that serves up the most wonderful traditional Japanese meals. The place is not easy to locate. There’s no signs or directions. You really have to want to find it. Nagare Kamogawa and his daughter Koishi run the small eating house. Nagare is the chef, Koishi waits tables. On the detecting side of the business, Koishi takes down the information for people who are searching for how a particular dish from their memory is cooked. Nagare is the detective. All the client has to go on is a one line advertisement in the Gourmet Monthly magazine. At the end of each case Koishi and Nagare ask their client to pay into an account how much their solving of the case was worth to them.  Nagare cooks the dish the client has sought. People come to find the dish their mother might have cooked, the meal they remembe...

The Lantern Boats by Tessa Morris-Suzuki               ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A young Scottish Japanese woman has been repatriated from Australia to Japan after the war. Elly and her family had been residents in Australia and interned there during the war. In Japan she meets and married a Scots journalist, Fergus Ruskin. They are looking to adopt a child,  A Japanese youth, Kamiya Jun, from islands off from Russia was working on a smuggling boat, and through a series of happenings ends up in an American intelligence unit that has a very low profile, a Black Ops type organisation. Elly and Jun’s lives intersect when he sees her attending an event entitled, Study Circle on Women in the New China. The woman he’s been tracking, Vida Vidanto, the Japanese Poet, whom he dubs The Fox is speaking. Elly hardly knows Vida, but she accepts an invitation to lunch, curious to know more about her, afraid of what her husband Fergus’ relationship might be with Vida. And so El...