Japanese Science

Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with big dreams and empty pockets. He worked on the railroads, in a cannery, and as a houseboy before settling in Oregon to open a store, raise a large family, and become one of the area's most successful orchardists. But his family's life changed forever on December 7, 1941, when they were forced from their homes into vast inland camps. Although shamed and broken, the Yasui family would yet endure to claim their place as Americans.

There's something you should know about my dad. He's always inventing! When I asked him why Japanese Americans left their homes during World War Two, Dad decided to create the coolest invention ever. My brothers and I knew Dad's solar-powered machine would be amazing. We just had no idea that Dad was about to send us on a breathtaking adventure through history!

On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories and memoirs devoted to this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen as negligible.

Ikigai is a Japanese concept that is often translated as "reason for being" or "purpose in life." It is the driving force behind what makes us happy and fulfilled, and is often used to describe the unique passions and talents that give our lives meaning and purpose. In this audiobook, you will learn all about Ikigai and how you can use it to discover and live your purpose in life. You will learn about the principles of Ikigai and how you can use it to improve your overall well-being.

More than 100 US Army and Navy nurses were stationed in Guam and the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of World War II to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than 70 army nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured, only to endure more than three years in prison camps.

「働けなくなったら」「お金が無くなったら」「親の介護が必要になったら」……。「これから先」を考えると押し寄せる不安。頼る人がいなければ、最悪しぬしかないのか？　そして自らの死後、大切なペットは？

According to the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai, the existence of each of us has a purpose, a real mission that must be pursued to find maximum gratification in our days. It is no coincidence that anyone who has discovered what their purpose is is happier, more satisfied, energetic, and able to face any difficulty that fate puts before them. Living life according to our ikigai leads to enormous benefits in personal and work relationships, and it allows us to act as fulfilled and successful people full of joy in carrying out our projects.

Join the super cutes for a super fun time at a very special school! Days at the Adventure School are all about learning to look after the natural world—and in the fantastical world of super cute, this means learning about some very special creatures from the giant hug whales to the cuddly mer-kitties. But there's ONE animal who doesn't want to look after anyone or anything else…Clive the spoilt chihuahua!

From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given $25 and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs.

Kaori and Kairi are the first twins to survive infancy on the ancient island of Mu, where gender is as fluid as the crashing waves. One was born of fire, the other of water. But there’s a reason why none have survived before. A prophecy that has haunted the elders since time began. A rivalry destined to sink the entire island beneath a twin catastrophe of volcano and tsunami. As hatred spills from the forbidden twins like the deadly poison of sacrificed sea snakes, they must decide what matters to them most.

Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The US Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in primitive camps.

When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. Some citizens were deemed loyal and were freed, but one in four was declared disloyal to America and condemned to repressive segregation in the camps or barred from war-related jobs.

シリコンバレーの天才たちが希求する「１％のマイノリティだけの世界」そこは楽園か、ディストピアか？シリコンバレーの天才たちが希求する「数学的に正しい統治」とは？

元最高裁判事の千葉勝美が、同性婚を認めない現行法の憲法適合性を論じる。同性婚を認めない制度を合憲とするのが現在の判例である。しかし、昨今国内で係属している裁判の一部で、憲法への抵触を宣言するものが出てきている。

２０２３年12月、私はステージ４のがん告知を受けた。告知の瞬間、私は、何を食べたいとか、どこかに行きたいとか、そんなことは微塵も考えなかった。

定年までに「老後資金2000万」があれば幸せに生きられるのか？人生100年時代といわれる今こそ定年後の生き方やお金の常識を見直すとき。

疫病と戦争で再強化される「国民国家」はどこへ向かうのか。拮抗する「民主主義と権威主義」のゆくえは。希代の思想家が覇権国「アメリカ」と「中国」の比較統治論から読み解く。

シリーズ累計10万部突破！死神、九十九神、福の神……現代社会に溶け込むように存在している八百万の神々と、人間達とのちょっと不思議なふれあいを描いた、切なくも心温まる連作

池上解説で日本と世界の先を読む！パレスチナ武装勢力とイスラエルが武力衝突。中東情勢をめぐり、各国の立場の違いが表面化。

50万部超の大ベストセラー『80歳の壁』の著者が35年以上の高齢者診療で辿り着いた死生観「どうせ死ぬんだから」