Mostly looking for autobiographies/non-fiction in Japanese that are pretty easy to read (N2/N3) that are about:
- women in their 30s and loneliness
- books about not feeling settled or not being able to find your ‘home’
- about the Korean experience living in Japan
- any non-fiction books about japan nature/artisans/aesthetics that you loved
I tried to ask chatgpt, but it just gave me fake titles with pertinent descriptions 
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pm215
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私小説―from left to right | L39?? kind of meets some of your criteria but fails badly enough on the others that this isn’t really a recommendation:
- it’s semi-autobiographical, so maybe a half mark there
- it’s about a 32 year old woman who was born in Japan, moved to the US at the age of twelve, and doesn’t really feel at home in either country
- but the biggest fail here is that it doesn’t count as “easy to read” by any stretch of the imagination – I think it’s about a Natively L40
It’s pretty good, though
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eefara
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Just a heads up that we’ve got a general Seeking Recommendations thread where we try to collect general requests:
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Sorry about that! I will post there.
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