← Hiromi KawakamiStrange Weather in Tokyoby Hiromi KawakamiTender romance between retired office workers navigating loneliness and connectionFind on Amazon↗About the authorHiromi KawakamiJapanese novelist and short story writer whose Strange Weather in Tokyo is a widely beloved story of a late-blooming romance between a woman and her former school teacher. Her fiction has a quiet, melancholy beauty.More by Hiromi KawakamiThe Nakano Thrift ShopGentle stories of community and transience in a Tokyo neighborhood thrift shop→Record of a Night Too Brief→People from My Neighbourhood→God Bless You 2011→