Japanese Biography

母子家庭で育ち、いじめられっ子だった少年時代。暴走族を結成した仲間達に囲まれながらヒップホップに夢中になった10代後半。名前を売りたい一心で、人気アーティスト達のライブにカチ込んだ20代前半。

野球と無縁の人生を歩んできた2人のサラリーマンが、どん底、赤貧に喘ぐ球団の建て直しに身を投じる、渾身の企業ノンフィクション。

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.

Gaman is a word that means strength in Japanese within the silence there is no yellow peril only the courage to be. Kenichi Yabusaki (Ken) was born a prisoner of war in an American concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent, primarily on the West Coast, were forced into ten main concentration camps across the continental US with no due process.

Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of the family's struggle to endure in these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice.

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…

"Miguel Ángel", un joven de 28 años nacido en Medellín y graduado de la facultad de Derecho de una universidad bogotana, llega a Tokio en la primavera de 1992 en busca del "sueño americano en versión japonesa". Con el paso de los años se covertiría en "toda una leyenda del submundo y la vida nocturna clandestina" en el país del Sol naciente, primero ejerciendo él mismo la prostitución y luego convirtiéndose en ficha clave para la Yakuza, la más temible mafia asiática, en la trata de prostitutas colombianas en el Lejano Oriente.

個々人の公益の追求と私益の追求とは何かを問う名著、待望の音声化!あなたが変われば、国家もまた生まれ変わる―「王道」が国家の繁栄をもたらす。個人のひとりひとりが集まって、やがて国となる。国家の問題は、ひとりひとりの国民の問題でもある。人は常に自分の利益ばかりを求めてしまうものである。しかしそれでは、一時的に繁栄はしても、社会からの共感は得られず、ついには反感を呼ぶことにもなり、決して長くは続かない。では、社会に適う事業とはいかなるものか。われわれは利益のために何をするべきか。それは、個人の利益とともに国家の利益がもたらされる事業である。たとえ事業が私利を意図したものであっても、それが商道徳に適うものであれば、それは公益をもたらすのである。道徳に従う限り、私利と公益は一体なのである。渋沢栄一は、この公益をもたらす道徳を「王道」と呼んでいる。それでは「王道」とは具体的にどういうことか。それは、オーディオブックを聴いて、あなた自身の耳で確めてもらいたい。「王道」を常に心がけることで、人は誰でも国家の繁栄に貢献できるのである。昭和6年に91歳で亡くなった渋沢栄一の葬儀には、約4万人もの会葬者が参列した。これは、いかに日本国民が渋沢栄一に感謝をしていたかを物語っている。※本商品は『渋沢栄一 国富論 実業と公益』(国書刊行会刊/渋沢栄一著ISBN:978-4-336-05311-4 1...

Your hard work to live with English will pay off, and enrich your life.エイゴと共に生きるための辛い努力は報われる。そして、貴方の人生を豊かにする。

勝つためには、そのための組織構築術がある。勝つためには、そのための人材育成術がある―――。監督就任5年目にして青山学院大学33年ぶりとなる「箱根駅伝」に出場、2015年には初優勝、2016年には39年ぶりの完全優勝、そしてさらに2017年には「箱根駅伝3連覇」を果たすという強豪にまで育てあげた原晋監督。

As one of six children of British medical missionaries, John Hoyte grew up in China till age 13. During World War ll, he and his siblings, separated from their parents, were interned by the Japanese for nearly four years. In his 20s, he led a British expedition over the Alps with an elephant to investigate which way Hannibal and his army of 30,000 men and 37 elephants had taken in 218 BC. Later, he founded a start-up corporation in Silicon Valley and was an inventor and entrepreneur. With each surprising twist and turn of his journey, John has built a fulfilling life, infused with purpose and creativity.

The Block Manager is the gripping memoir of Janet, an American-born child of Japanese immigrants. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Janet's life in California was uprooted when thousands of Japanese Americans on the West Coast - including Janet's family - were forced into internment camps. Because of her brilliant command of English and Japanese, she was assigned the job of block manager. Janet was shuffled between three camps, got married, and had a child while the war raged on.

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.

Arthur Hart-Synnot, a third-generation British officer, was sent to Japan in 1904 to learn the language of Britain's newest ally. Masa Suzuki, a beautiful Japanese woman scorned because of an early divorce, worked at the Tokyo Officers' Club. The two fell immediately in love and conceived a son before Arthur was whisked away by the military during World War I. Though Arthur would only see Masa little, he supported his Japanese family and kept alive the hope that he and Masa could live together blissfully.

Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a prisoner, he escaped twice, first from Changi and later from the infamous Sandakan POW camp in Borneo. After paddling a dugout canoe across open sea, he fought for two years with American-led Filipino guerrillas, his exploits so audacious the Japanese put a price on his head.

大ブレイク中のガールズグループ「NiziU」をはじめ、「2PM」「TWICE」など数々の人気アーティストを生んだ世界的プロデューサーが、自らのこれまでの歩みと哲学をつづる。

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.

In April of 1942, author Julien Goodman, MD was working as a member of the US Army Medical Corps at General Hospital Number One in Bataan when the hospital fell into the hands of the Japanese. M.D.P.O.W. is a description of Dr. Goodman's experiences as a prisoner of war. During his 42-month ordeal, he not only witnessed the horrendous effects of war, but he also experienced them.

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。

In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria—an area some called China's "Wild East"—and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon Kaspe, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father's wealth.