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  • The best winter gift of 2020? A Japanese stomach warmer!
    The best winter gift of 2020? A Japanese stomach warmer!
  • Tokyo’s best-dressed nude statue: It’s that Santa time of year
    Tokyo’s best-dressed nude statue: It’s that Santa time of year
  • Japanese Lego Town Kits
    Japanese Lego Town Kits
  • Uber Dandy Kimono: Wildly modern, breathtakingly bold, insanely stunning
    Uber Dandy Kimono: Wildly modern, breathtakingly bold, insanely stunning
  • Perfect 2020 Halloween costumes from Japan
    Perfect 2020 Halloween costumes from Japan
  • When Nothing But Unnecessarily Large Tanuki Testicles Will Do
    When Nothing But Unnecessarily Large Tanuki Testicles Will Do
  • The World of The Last Tea Bowl Thief
    The World of The Last Tea Bowl Thief
  • Subway manners meet covid—with a side of prejudice—in these new posters
    Subway manners meet covid—with a side of prejudice—in these new posters
  • Entertainingly altered missionary signs elevate cats to their rightful place
    Entertainingly altered missionary signs elevate cats to their rightful place
  • Amazing scenes emerge as you use this notepad
    Amazing scenes emerge as you use this notepad
  • How lucky is YOUR name?
    How lucky is YOUR name?
  • Hilarious haiku ask those burning questions about modern life
    Hilarious haiku ask those burning questions about modern life
  • When you wish upon a…monk?
    When you wish upon a…monk?
  • Six Surprising Reasons Japanese People Wear Masks, Even When There’s No Pandemic
    Six Surprising Reasons Japanese People Wear Masks, Even When There’s No Pandemic
  • Live Your Best Miniature Life for a Year in Tokyo’s Small Worlds Theme Park
    Live Your Best Miniature Life for a Year in Tokyo’s Small Worlds Theme Park
  • An Only-In-Japan Problem If There Ever Was One
    An Only-In-Japan Problem If There Ever Was One
  • Japanese Emoticons: So Many Feels Beyond Emoji
    Japanese Emoticons: So Many Feels Beyond Emoji
  • Modern Kimonos To Die For: These Designers Are Giving An Old Artform New Edge
    Modern Kimonos To Die For: These Designers Are Giving An Old Artform New Edge
  • Japanese Capsule Toys Explain the Five Stages of Quarantine Hair Grief
    Japanese Capsule Toys Explain the Five Stages of Quarantine Hair Grief
  • Gachapon animals ask their mirrors the most burning quarantine questions
    Gachapon animals ask their mirrors the most burning quarantine questions
  • Tweets from the Pillow Book: Pandemic Version
    Tweets from the Pillow Book: Pandemic Version
  • J-style Social Distancing Measurements for the Rest of Us
    J-style Social Distancing Measurements for the Rest of Us
  • How To Measure Social Distance, J-Style
    How To Measure Social Distance, J-Style
  • Kanji Drill Toilet Paper: For All Your Japanese Study Needs
    Kanji Drill Toilet Paper: For All Your Japanese Study Needs
  • Kawaii Masks
    Kawaii Masks
  • Artist Turns The Best Pet Tweets Into Hilarious Tiny Sculptures
    Artist Turns The Best Pet Tweets Into Hilarious Tiny Sculptures
  • These lovely Tokyo sites light up at night
    These lovely Tokyo sites light up at night
  • Cutest Curry Rice Molds On The Planet
    Cutest Curry Rice Molds On The Planet
  • Nine spectacular cherry blossom gardens, a firewalking field trip & a book giveaway!
    Nine spectacular cherry blossom gardens, a firewalking field trip & a book giveaway!
  • Five Japanese flower seasons that will make you happy you missed the cherry blossoms
    Five Japanese flower seasons that will make you happy you missed the cherry blossoms

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The Last Tea Bowl Thief was chosen as an Editor’s Pick for
Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense on Amazon

For three hundred years, a missing tea bowl passes from one fortune-seeker to the next, changing the lives of all who possess it…read more

“A fascinating mix of history and mystery.” —Booklist

Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly e-magazine Japanagram, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had