Japanese Biography

Decades before trade moved between the United States and Japan at its present pace, there was a Japanese immigrant's son with an American dream. Born to a farming tycoon in California, George Aratani was forced to leave the family business behind when incarcerated with more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. After the war, he traveled to Japan with little idea of what he would import from the war-devastated archipelago. What followed was the development of his two powerful businesses, Mikasa and Kenwood.

著者は、「テロや紛争のない世界」の実現をビジョンとして掲げ、ソマリアやイエメンといった熾烈な紛争地の最前線において、テロ組織からの投降兵や逮捕者を脱過激化し、社会復帰へ導くという活動を続けている。

エンゼルスの番記者のジェフ・フレッチャーが綴る、現在進行形の生きる伝説の舞台裏！

二刀流の「史上最高のメジャーリーガー」は、どのようにして生まれたのか?なぜ、大谷翔平はメジャーでMVPを受賞できたのか?全米が驚嘆した大谷の凄さと活躍の秘密をメジャーサイドから徹底解明

小澤征爾がヨーロッパ横断したラビットスクーター、日本最古の人気国民車「スバル360」、スバリストが愛するレガシィと四輪駆動と水平対向エンジン、国内でも大人気のレヴォーグ、アメリカで高評価のアウトバック…

不条理な暴力に私たちはどう抗えるのか――【第53回大宅賞受賞作】1972年11月、革マル派が支配していた早稲田大学文学部構内で、一人の学生が虐殺された。

金メダルをとってもなお、僕が泳ぐのをやめない理由。全盲スイマー、木村敬一の努力と覚悟。

トヨタ最大の秘密を知る男の「告白」。トヨタの中国進出と豊田家世襲の内幕－－。

Russko-yaponskaya voyna: Buduchi voennym korrespondentom na ehtoy voyne. Krasnov prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie v boyah. Pered nami zahvatyvayushchee povestvovanie o geroizme nashih soldat v bitvah s protivnikom, prevoskhodyashchim russkih i chislom i osnashcheniem. Na vnutrennem fronte: Razval armii i fronta posle fevralya 1917 goda v sledstvie znamenitogo Prikaza N1 o soldatskih komitetah. Polnyy haos v voyskah i torzhestvo hamstva.

マンネリを捨てることで、人生を取り戻す。32年間やった放送作家を辞めます。

24歳にして「世界のMAO」に――規格外の天才ピアニスト、待望の初著作　このピアノに、世界が恋をした。

国益、省益、権謀術数、出世、自己保身……首相退任後、安倍晋三さんが財務省を非難した、ほんとうの理由を徹底的に明らかにする！

酒井順子さんから推薦コメントをいただきました。日本はいかにして、「ユーミン」を生み出したのか。「ユーミン」はいかにして、時代を生み出したのか。

朝日新聞の大人気連載が待望の文庫化！　タイトル獲得の舞台裏から睡眠時間、勉強法まで、将棋界の歴史を動かした不世出の棋士を知る決定版。

「おおきくなったらしょうぎのめいじんになりたいです」と夢を綴った６歳の少年。それから１４年後――朝日新聞大好評連載、待望の第二弾！

The house was built when I was nine years old at the place where our old house was torn down, because it was too old to live in. That old house was built about 100 years ago. My ancestors lived at exactly the same spot generation after generation for over 1000 years since my family used to be a landlord of the area. We are here for around 63 generations.

Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "the Rock," the daily struggles to tend the sick, the wounded, and the dying, during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Once captive, the doctors and corpsmen waged a desperate war against disease and starvation for nearly three and a half years, amid an enemy who viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the four POWs tried to function as a family.

In 2008, the author/narrator embarks on a poignant journey to Minidoka, one of the 10 former US concentration camps authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, where tens of thousands of American men, women, and children were incarcerated solely because of their race.

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends - just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before. But Fred refused to go.