Japanese Science

Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax—have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished—an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.

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.

The battle between the sixteen shura, the chosen representatives of a world ruled by strength, has begun at last. On one end of the battlefield, the Old Kingdoms’ loyalists seek to use the chaos caused by the Particle Storm to stage an uprising and tip the scales in their favor. Meanwhile, the New Principality of Lithia lights a match under the New Demon King War and threatens to reduce everything to ash. After an age of terror, the world will undergo another massive change, and whispers of the True Demon King will be heard far and wide.

Sakuta had been ready to give up his life, but nothing could have prepared him to keep living like this. Now he must find a way to carry on even when it feels like tomorrow will never come. And even if it does, why should he care when the love of his life is already gone? Of course, he can always count on Shouko to show him the way forward in his darkest hour, just like she did all those years ago. As he gathers the strength and courage Mai gave him, Sakuta readies himself to do whatever it takes to rewrite the past.

★★発売から3か月で10万部突破！★★★★韓国で話題沸騰のベストセラーが日本上陸！★★「毎日を気分良く過ごしたい」「他人に振り回されるのをやめたい」「自己肯定感を高めたい」

『反日種族主義』に寄せられた批判に徹底反論、事実をもって論破する!
日韓大ベストセラーの第2弾。
『反日種族主義』には、韓国内から強烈な抵抗と罵倒が寄せられた。

The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one—Baron Meinster—refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin. Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants.

還らぬ王、消えた麒麟。この国を襲う激震は、なぜ――。泰麒の行方を捜すため景王と延麒たちが動き出す!!「十二国記」Episode8 王と麒麟が還らぬ国。

★進化思考──それは、生物の進化のように二つのプロセス(変異と適応)を繰り返すことで、本来だれの中にもある創造性を発揮する思考法。

Agnes is an unusual young woman with peach-blossom hair and the fairy-given ability to make mushrooms sprout willy-nilly. Fortunately, she's now in a relationship with a handsome dragon prince who's absolutely obsessed with her mushrooms! Unfortunately, Agnes is still trying to get over the trauma of her last relationship, and it'll take a lot of spoiling from Claude to help her! This is the story of how, through a series of unlikely events, Agnes has found her mushroom-loving prince charming.

After a draining December, Sakuta is quickly nearing the end of his second year of high school. Since Mai is a third-year student, they don’t have much time left together before graduation rolls around. Meanwhile, his sister, Kaede, is slowly but steadily venturing outdoors again. Just as she begins to find her footing, she announces her most ambitious goal yet—attending her brother’s high school! Sakuta knows better than anyone how difficult this will be for Kaede, and he’s ready to support her however he can.

現みずほ銀行の前身のひとつ第一国立銀行や、東京証券取引所、東京海上、王子製紙、日本郵船、帝国ホテル、キリンビール、サッポロビールなど、500あまりの企業の設立に携わった渋沢栄一。その成功は、座右の書とした『論語』の教えに基づいたものでした。常に「論語(=道徳)と算盤(=商売)は一致すべし」と説き、 目先の利益のみを優先した経済活動は結果的に人々の生活を脅かし、ひいては国家の安全すら危うくさせると訴えかけます。 ●争いは排斥すべきものでなく、必要のもの ●どんな些細な仕事でも、それは大きな仕事の一小部分 ●失敗することがあっても、疚しいところがなければかえって多大の教訓を得られる ●実業界に不正の行為が後を絶たぬようでは、国家の安全を期することができない 激しい経営者の顔を覗かせながら、細かな仕事にも手を抜かない。大志を持ち、目先の成功や失敗にとらわれすぎない。決して利己的にならず、物事の道理を見据えて行動する。今の企業人にもっとも必要なことを説く、実業界の父の講話を頭に入りやすい「朗読」でお聞きください。 ※本商品は『論語と算盤』(国書刊行会刊/渋沢栄一著ISBN:978-4-336-01455-9 1,260円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。(C)Eichi Shibusawa

高い壁に囲まれ、外界との接触がまるでない街で、そこに住む一角獣たちの頭骨から夢を読んで暮らす〈僕〉の物語、〔世界の終り〕。

本書は、ノーベル生理学・医学賞を受賞した生物学者ポール・ナースが、「生命とは何か？」について、語りかけるようなやさしい文体で答える一冊。

この一冊でニュースの読み方が変わる！正々堂々と生きる「価値基準」を持つことができる！社会学者・宮台真司が、旬のニュースや事件にフォーカスし、この社会の〝問題の本質〟を解き明かした名著が新書版で誕生。

〔視覚革命が文明を生んだ〕世界各地の文字から字形を構成する一九の「文字素」を抽出・解析した著者は、全て人類は「同じ文字」を用いているという、驚くべき事実を見出す。

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.

〈私〉の意識の核に思考回路を組み込んだ老博士と再会した〈私〉は、回路の秘密を聞いて愕然とする。私の知らない内に世界は始まり、知らない内に終わろうとしているのだ。

クィディッチのワールドカップで、空に不吉な印が上がった。ヴォルデモートの復活か？　巧妙に仕組まれた罠が、ハリーを三大魔法学校対抗試合の選手に選ぶ。

〔いまを生き延びるための哲学〕「１人を殺せば５人が助かる。あなたはその１人を殺すべきか？」