Living in Japan

DescriptionA graphic novel about healing through mindfulness and gardening by two highly acclaimed creators. I have happily forgotten what used to ...

Reducere. Teenage Allen Maruyama internalized the hostility directed at Japanese/Japanese Americans subsequent to the Pearl Harbor attack. He says he learned...

Shinrin Yoku: "taking in the forest atmosphere, " the medicine of simply being in the forest, "forest bathing." From the healing properties of phyt...

The most forward-looking spaces designed for rustic living in the twenty-first century. Across the globe, architects are creating innovative house...

- Features small houses, apartments, cabins, cottages, and studios by a range of leading designers and architects from around the world, including ...

DescriptionThe story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth-century toxic...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents, for the first time, a collection of ancient Japanese Shinto prayers in a format where English speaking readers can b...

Etsuko, a Japanese woman, is living alone in England. As she contemplates the suicide of her daughter she retreats into the past and finds herself ...

'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of s...

The rabbit ronin's adventures hit an early peak in this second volume featuring brand new original cover art by Stan Sakai! This collection include...

Reducere. DescriptionZen is having a hard time living up to his parents' expectations. And in Japan, when you are not admitted into a top school, then your c...

Reducere. The fate of feudal Japan hangs in the balance in this bloody conclusion to the epic Blood Ninja trilogy. Taro is at a crossroads: He has vanquished...

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japan...

A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earthFor decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Ja...

DescriptionA contemporary graphic novel adaptation of a spiritual classic. This graphic-novel version of the Tao Te Ching--the poetic classic that ...

Reducere. A bestselling motivational book based on the Japanese concept of finding happiness in everyday life, now for young readers!The Japanese people say ...

Reducere. Boyle Heights was one of the earliest residential areas outside of Los Angeles's original pueblo. From the 1920s through the 1950s, it was the city...

Reducere. On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fa...

More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps....

Andy Couturier captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary--yet exceptional--men and women who left behi...

Reducere. Knife-wielding school girls, scrotum-seeking school boys, back-stabbing bimbos...and some of the finest human beings this side of the globe Yokoham...

Reducere. A crimson fish wrestles a man. A horned demon stares menacingly. These vivid scenes are tattoos, created in pain, incised in the flesh of the Yakuz...

Reducere. Bill Dawson, is the lone surviving member from the first class of Naval Special Warfare operators, then known as Naval Combat Demolition Units, one...

Reducere. Bill Dawson, is the lone surviving member from the first class of Naval Special Warfare operators, then known as Naval Combat Demolition Units, one...

Reducere. The religion of Shugendō has no shrines, and it has no temples. It only has the liminality of the mountains, a space that is viewed in Japan as bei...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is the story of Etsuko, ...

Reducere. Published in 2016 and updated twice a year, the book contains full information on around 600 bands in the pop, rock, folk and jazz fields, active i...

Reducere. The Samurai of legends continues to captivate us. We wonder if the stories we see depicted in pop culture creations, books, and museums are full of...

DescriptionHonoring the 35th anniversary of Stan Sakai's award-winning series Usagi Yojimbo, this deluxe art collection includes hundreds of full-p...

A new spin-off novel for the bestselling Monster Musume series! Ordinary twentysomething Kurusu Kimihito thought living with a bunch of monster gir...

For over three decades, renowned Japanese voice actress Megumi Hayashibara has breathed life into countless iconic characters--including Ranma Saot...

Reducere. In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in En...

Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Per...

Reducere. "Entering Banana Yoshimoto's fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo--everyday things are disconcertingly different. The ...

Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, ...

Reducere. Two of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk too...

Bonsai is the art of growing miniature potted trees. It is a true art form that requires special techniques such as pruning, wiring, fertilizing an...

Reducere. "We live in such a messed-up world where going to school and getting a job is mandatory, but living is not."Seventeen-year-old Nila Izawa's life in...

DescriptionImagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to sto...

Reducere. Every day, Choichi Terukina practices singing and playing the three-stringed sanshin with his teacher, Miyazato-Sensei. Choichi wants to become a g...

Reducere. Every day, Choichi Terukina practices singing and playing the three-stringed sanshin with his teacher, Miyazato-Sensei. Choichi wants to become a g...

Living in a gamelike fantasy world, Satou Suzuki is in no hurry to get back to his "death march" at home. He's content to take in the sights of Sei...

At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simp...

DescriptionImagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to sto...

DescriptionGorgeous photos and insightful text introduce the work of today's foremost Noh mask artist, actor, and teacher. Noh master Michishige Ud...

DescriptionImagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to sto...

Reducere. "If a dragonfly lands on you, it means change is coming.You better watch your dreams, Nini."Living in China when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Ni...

Reducere. "If a dragonfly lands on you, it means change is coming.You better watch your dreams, Nini."Living in China when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Ni...

By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twe...

Reducere. Description"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip,...

A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the sam...

Reducere. This book is the first complete translation into any modern language of the diary kept by Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk who traveled to China in ...

Reducere. This book is the first complete translation into any modern language of the diary kept by Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk who traveled to China in ...

DescriptionTwo brilliant, multi-layered stories from the winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best...

Blue Kimono, White Cranes is a Coming of Age, historical fiction taking place in the early twentieth century Japan. Still a very young woman, Misao...

Reducere. The Dogs of Nam is a collection of short stories from over a decade of world travel. Part clueless comedy, part poetic observation, The Dogs of Nam...

Reducere. Korea was "discovered" by the West after World War II when it became a flashpoint in the Cold War. Before the war, however, it was home to many hun...

Reducere. A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World Wa...

Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many mi...

DescriptionImagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to sto...

Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many mi...

Reducere. Chad Diehl, a Columbia University doctoral candidate, introduces Raft of Corpses as the first official translation of the tanka poetry of Yamaguchi...

Reducere. Korea was "discovered" by the West after World War II when it became a flashpoint in the Cold War. Before the war, however, it was home to many hun...

DescriptionMatsuo Basho (1644-1694) was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. He is universally recognised as the greatest master of hai...

DescriptionImagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to sto...

Reducere. The fate of the world as at stake in this lavishly Reads R to L (Japanese Style). X, the epic series from CLAMP, is now available in this deluxe co...

DescriptionFrom a living treasure of Japanese Zen, an inspiring collection of teachings about the power of Buddhist practice to help you transform ...

Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many mi...

Reducere. Victoria Chang's collection takes its title from what many call "the worst weed in the world, " a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that...

Publisher: Parallax PressAuthor(s): Azusa FukuokaNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 187 x 241 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softba...