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Originally Posted by Tarana
For those that don't know it, did you know there are SIX books in this SERIES? I didn't even know it was a series having only read Shogun years ago (I think I was 15 or 16).
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It's only very loosely a series. Shōgun doesn't have a sequel. None of its characters appear in the other books. King Rat (about a prisoner of war in WWII) was the first written. I think James Clavell decided to turn his books into a series when he wrote his next book: Noble House.
Here's the Wikipedia page:
The Asian Saga
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Four of the six books—Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, Noble House, and Whirlwind—follow the dealings of the great trading company Struan's, the Noble House of Asia (based on Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited), its founder Dirk Struan, and his various descendants. Gai-Jin provides the major link between the Shōgun and Struan's storylines.
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Reading the page, I would have liked to read Nippon, a book he was planning to set in 1970's Japan.