Japanese House

Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka’s physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has no boundaries: She takes e-learning courses on her iPad, publishes explicit fantasies on websites, and anonymously troll-tweets to see if anyone is paying attention (“In another life, I’d like to work as a high-class prostitute”). One day, she tweets into the void an offer of an enormous sum of money for a sperm donor.

A new selection of 14 of Yukio Mishima's best short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers. In the title story, "Voices of the Fallen Heroes," a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots of World War II, who reproach the Emperor and mourn Japan’s modern decline. In another, Mishima recounts the true story of the time a deranged fan broke into his home at dawn, insisting on meeting the author and imploring him to "tell the truth."

Traditional Japanese houses are made of wood and their roofs are covered with tiles.

Dreux Richard presents post-Fukushima Japan in three illustrative parts. He follows members of Japan’s Nigerian community, whose struggles with a hostile immigration system lead to the death of a Nigerian immigrant in a Japanese detention center, investigated here for the first time. In Japan’s northernmost city, Richard goes door to door with the region’s youngest census employee, meeting the city’s elderly residents and documenting the stories that comprise the nation’s record-breaking population decline. Finally, he takes us into the offices of energy executives....

時の流れの呪縛から解き放たれたビリー・ピルグリムは、自分の生涯の未来と過去とを往来する、奇妙な時間旅行者になっていた。大富豪の娘と幸福な結婚生活を送り……

世の中にある多くの片づけ本は、家にある「モノ」をどう片づけるかについて書いたものばかりです。ところが、人生により大きな影響を与えるのは、「紙」の片づけだと著者は言います。

100日間、所持品ほぼ0からはじめて「1日1つアイテムを取り出す」という決まりで生活しました。例えるなら、無人島で暮らして人間らしさを取り戻した100日間の記録、みたいなものです。

Where to Start! We need to heal our relationship with stuff and our obsession with buying and hoarding possessions to greater and lesser extremes. People continue to fill their homes and storage units with possessions that they don’t have any real use for and yet continue to shop and get themselves into severe debt, leading to a miserable and unfulfilled life. The key to living a peaceful and sane life is to have; a loving relationship with ourselves, our living space, the environment and the possessions we bring into those three spaces.

Yutaka Tanaka, señor feudal de la provincia de Sagami, debe vengar la muerte de su padre, asesinado por una banda de samuráis enmascarados. La investigación del crimen lo arroja a los campos de batalla, a las intrigas cortesanas y sus traiciones. Como un príncipe Hamlet perdido entre los pliegues de un país que no llega a comprender, Yutaka enfrentará la fascinación de los autómatas, las maniobras sentimentales de dama Ashikaga y los secretos del sokushinbutsu.

The Emperor and some of his relatives, the imperial family, are referred to as the imperial household.

３０代のダメ男ベンと、男の子ロボット・タングの「ぽんこつコンビ」が帰ってきた！ベンに娘が生まれお兄ちゃんになろうと奮闘するタングの可愛さ満載。心がじわっとあったかくなる家族の物語。

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.

本書は「これが人生最後の片づけ」の続編です。まず最初に本書は、「ここをこのやり方で片づける」といった「モノを捨てる、片づける」具体的な方法を書いたものではないということを

Recién reincorporada a la Brigada tras la cirugía de reasignación de sexo, Sofía Luna se ve obligada a investigar un misterioso caso. ¿Quién es este asesino que escoge a sus víctimas, todas japonesas, en el centro turístico de Madrid? Todo parece apuntar hacia el peculiar mundo de los viajes turísticos organizados y el más peculiar aún de personas asexuales, un grupo que rechaza la hipersexualidad de la vida moderna y tiene como animal favorito la estrella de mar.

3万軒の家を見てきた超プロが教える、本当に役立つ家づくりの新常識。

わたしは専業主婦になり、時間とお金の制約を感じることが多くなりましたが、シンプルライフを貫き始めたら、これらの制約をコントロールしやすくなりました。

じいさんが死んだ夏のある日、孫の良嗣（よしつぐ）は、初めて家族のルーツに興味を持った。

資本主義は、民主主義は、日本社会は、どう“変調”していくのか――？予測不可能な時代を生き抜くヒントを「最先端の知性」がはじめて明かす！

元・国連専門機関職員の著者が明かす――日本人だけが知らない、海外との「驚愕の価格差」

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.