Yokohama - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • Yukio Mishima's novella The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea is set mainly in Yokohama. Mishima describes the city's port and its houses, and the Western influences that shaped them.
  • The main setting of James Clavell's book Gai-Jin is in historical Yokohama.
  • Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern book series involves a spaceship named the Yokohama.
  • Aya Fuse lives in futuristic Yokohama in Scott Westerfeld's "Extras (novel)".

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