Japanese Biography

Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki is the genius behind such animated classics as Princess Mononoke, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds. His bountiful imagination and compassion have earned him accolades the world over. Until the early 1990s, Miyazaki’s work was largely unfamiliar to American audiences. But that would soon change, and now fans of all ages eagerly await new material from the master.

One by one, things that Norm and his Japanese American family took for granted are taken away. In a matter of months, they, along with everyone else of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, are forced by the government to move to internment camps, leaving everything they have known behind.

Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to Ojichan’s (grandfather’s) stories for the thousandth time, Obaachan was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather’s attempts to teach her the language.

Behind Japanese Lines has a great deal to say about the relations with the Filipinos and about the problems of dealing with and fighting the Hukbalahaps, the communist guerrillas or, indeed, in opposing the Japanese. This book adds considerable insights into the significance of guerrilla warfare as it relates to modern warfare in general

笑えて泣ける岸田家の日々のこと　車いすユーザーの母、ダウン症で知的障害のある弟、ベンチャー起業家で急逝した父――

週刊文春連載エッセイ「夜ふけのなわとび」から抜粋した林真理子さんのお言葉集。毒舌が芸にまで昇華された林さんのエッセイですが、中でも含蓄があっておもしろい言葉のエッセンスを集めた金言格言集ともいうべき一冊です。

自ら災難に突進する性癖ゆえの艱難辛苦を乗り越え92年間生きて来た佐藤さんだからからこそ書ける緩急織り交ぜた文章は、人生をたくましく生きるための箴言も詰まっていて、大笑いした後に深い余韻が残ります。

ぜひ日本最高峰の名エッセイをご堪能ください。

February 19, 1942. George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares anyone of Japanese descent an enemy of the United States. George and his family were American in every way. They had done nothing wrong. But because of their Japanese ancestry, they were removed from their home in California and forced into camps with thousands of other families who looked like theirs.

When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middle class youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris.

Flown to Japan as a 16-year-old exchange student, Roy Dean entered the world of fighting through the art of Judo. Returning to the USA, he pursued even more intense study, becoming an apprentice to a Japanese jiu jitsu and aikido master in Monterey, California. This is a recollection of transformative events, his introduction to the art of Brazilian jiu jitsu, and the lessons you can only learn by living in a dojo.

常に「特殊」なものとして語られ、現実感に欠けていた「ドラッグの世界」。「他人のトリップなど聞きたくない。面白いのは、ドラッグの周辺にいる人たちだ」と豪語する著者がリポートする、愉快で、どこか物悲しいドラッグの世界。 眠れないシャブ、運び屋の努力と苦悩、ジャンキーの素顔、実録覚醒剤裁判、熱狂レイブ、ドラッグセックス、アムステルダム帰りのジャンキー、裏山マリファナ栽培記、イラン人と売人の関係、ケタミンで臨死体験、インド人化する日本人売人、笑えない禁断症状、各国マリファナ事情、…… ※本商品は「実録ドラッグ・リポート」(彩図社刊 草下シンヤ著 ISBN:978-4-88392-354-0 1,260円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。 (C)Shinya Kusaka

Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Unit 731 and Unit 100, as well as their subsidiary branches, performed human experimentation on the innocents under the leadership of Dr. Ishii Shiro. Although the exact number of victims is unclear since the Japanese destroyed most of the evidence at the end of the war, but it ranged from 3,000-250,000 innocent men, women, and children.

NumberWebで2000万PV超の人気連載《徹底検証ノンフィクション》1993年12月、40歳落合博満のFA移籍は事件だった。巨人にとって落合がいた3年間とは何だったのか――？

大王製紙社長の長男として、幼少時代は1200坪の屋敷で過ごし、東大法学部に現役合格。27歳で赤字子会社を立て直し、42歳で本社社長就任。順調な経営、華麗なる交遊……すべてを手にしていたはずの

A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences.

★話題騒然！ 世界16か国で続々刊行、全米25万部突破！★ニューヨーク・タイムズ絶賛！「もしあなたが一言ですむ話に５つも言葉を使っているなら、本書を読むべきだ」「彼らは面白く、そして正しい」

高卒で光通信からＵＵＵＭ創業者。ＨＩＫＡＫＩＮ、はじめしゃちょー、東海オンエアらとインフルエンサー＆ユーチューバーを人気職業に押し上げてきた怒涛の人生。「仕事ができる人」に生まれ変わるための２０個の質問を投げかける、仕事論＆創業秘話！

Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known today for writing the Corps' Rifleman's Creed. Rupertus was one of the outstanding Marines of the twentieth century, but he died in 1945, so his story has never been told. Rupertus "made his bones" in the USMC's "savage wars of peace" before World War II: Haiti for three years after World War I, China in 1929, and again in 1937.

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女性皇族として初めて海外で博士号を取得された彬子女王殿下による英国留学記。待望の文庫化！

《赤と青のガウン。それは、私が博士課程を始めたときからいつか着る日を夢みてきたものだ。