47 Books for Japan’s 47 Prefectures
This article is for bookworms, avid travelers and veteran as well as amateur Japanophiles. We’ve compiled a list of 47 Japanese books and stories (plus some bonus entries) taking place in each of the country’s 47 prefectures, so that you can visit all of Japan without leaving your home. We’ve got some classics and some contemporary short story collections, as well as a few nonfiction picks.

First published in 1929 in the proletarian magazine Senki, The Crab Cannery (also published in English as The Cannery Boat and The Factory Ship) was inspired by Takiji Kobayashi’s newspaper findings that

