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An intelligent and thrilling entertainment that follows the covert exploits of spies on the eve of hostilities between Japan and the United States in December 1941. Saburō Shiota is an ensign in the Imperial ...

Beautiful Smoothies

it's mai smoothie / it's MAI SMOOTHIE

Mai Kitamura

Author Mai Kitamura has been uploading photos and recipes of tantalizing fruit and vegetable smoothies to instagram.com/mai_smoothie on a daily basis, and this book brings much of that highly popular content ...

Temple Cuisine

Itsumo no, otera no okazu / いつもの、お寺のおかず

Kakuho Aoe

In Buddhist temples, a monk with the title of tenzo prepares all food dishes every day. The author of this book, one of the most famous tenzo in Japan, introduces over 50 recipes which ...

Human Chairs: A Rampoesque Tale

Ningen-isu Rampo kitan / 人間椅子　乱歩奇譚

Shiro Kuro

The body of a young teacher named Okumura is found dismembered and reassembled in the shape of a chair in a middle-school classroom. One of his students, a fair-faced 13-year-old named Kobayashi, happens ...

Ketones Will Save Humanity: Why Low-Carb Improves Health

Ketontai ga jinrui wo sukuu / ケトン体が人類を救う

Tetsuo Muneta

The ketogenic diet, currently gaining attention for its effectiveness in treating diabetes, obesity, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and many other ailments, is a diet therapy in which carbohydrates ...

The Nishiura Photo Studio in Enoshima

Enoshima Nishiura Shashinkan / 江ノ島西浦写真館

En Mikami

The story is set on the small but picturesque island of Enoshima, a popular seaside resort in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo. The Nishiura Photo Studio that was in business there for a full century ...

On the Day the World Turns Red

Sekai ga aka ni somaru hI ni / 世界が赫に染まる日に

Riu Kushiki

Kai Ogata, 14, all but loses his two cousins to vicious bullying: Shota Dobashi, 13, is beaten into a coma, and his sister Suzuna, 12, is raped and left emotionally scarred. Thanks to provisions of the ...

Star Worms

Hoshi yadoru mushi / 星宿る虫

Shunsuke Minesato

A fire breaks out in a building where a religious group in Nagano runs a brothel. The bodies recovered from the ruins are infested by a mysterious worm, and the blood in their veins has turned yellow. ...

The Mukoda Barber Shop

Mukoda Rihatsuten / 向田理髪店

Hideo Okuda

The story takes place in fictitious Tomazawa, a town that once grew to a population of 80,000 in the middle of a flourishing coal-mining district in Hokkaido. Since the advent of cheap oil, the town has ...

Poison Daughter, Holy Mother

Poizun dōtā, hōrī mazā / ポイズンドーター・ホーリーマザー

Kanae Minato

A novel in eight short stories involving incidents of murder, injurious assault, and such by a writer regarded as the originator and queen of the genre known as iyamisu in Japan—literally, “eww ...

Living Space with Typography

Taipo no aru kurashi. / タイポのある暮らし。

An introduction to practical techniques and ideas for stylishly renovating your room with interior designs using hand-crafted typography, which is in vogue nowadays. Original templates provided.

How to Make Gyoza

Gyoza no tsukurikata / 餃子の作り方

There has been huge TV and magazine coverage for this introduction to 50 super-creative recipes for gyoza (pot stickers or jiaozi) that look interesting and taste delicious. Mangyo-en ...

Grooming the Samurai: Japanese Etiquette for Children

Buke no shitsuke: Kodomo no reigi-saho / 武家の躾　子どもの礼儀作法

Keishosai Ogasawara

Secret teachings on “raising boys” passed down through successive generations of a samurai clan for 500 years. The profound teachings of the Ogasawara School of Etiquette, established in the ...

Ketogenic Diet Wipes Out Cancer

Keton shoku ga gan wo kesu / ケトン食ががんを消す

Kenji Furukawa

The main source of nutrition for cancer cells is glucose. Cancer could be suppressed if there were a life-supporting nutrient to replace glucose. The author, who has treated cancer patients for many years, ...

Fascinating Fungi: Those Mysterious Mushrooms

Chinkin / 珍菌　まかふしぎなきのこたち

Hiromi Hori

Miyuki Kido

Yaguradake (powdery piggyback), which is a parasite on other mushrooms, Mamezayatake (dead man’s fingers), which looks like human fingers protruding from the ground, Chichitake ...

How to Make the Most Delicious Seasoned Boiled Egg: 100 Home Recipes for Solo Diners

Sekai-ichi oishii nitamago no tsukurikata / 世界一美味しい煮卵の作り方

Hungry Grizzly

This is a book of recipes from “Hungry Grizzly’s Cooking Blog,” which held the top spot in Japanese blog rankings for 26 months straight. The blogger going by the nom de plume of Hungry Grizzly declares, ...

A Bug-Catcher’s Adventures in Africa

Batta wo taoshi ni Afurika e / バッタを倒しにアフリカへ

Koutaro Ould Maeno

A young Japanese entomologist goes to Mauritania to do battle with pillaging locusts, and in the face of many collateral dangers, lives to tell the tale with a hearty sense of humor. The book became a ...

Cartoon Primer on Ketones: Why Low-Carb Improves Health

Manga keton-tai nyumon / まんがケトン体入門

Cartoons are used to lucidly explain the theory and practice of the “ketogenic diet,” said to be effective against cancer, depression, diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. Editorial ...

Marimari’s Camp Book

Marimari no joshi kyan / marimariの女子キャン

Mariko Matsuo

Charismatic camper Marimari, a popular figure on TV and in print media, explains how women can enjoy camping in style with ease. From day trips to longer 4–5 day sojourns, winter camping, and camping ...

Japan’s New “Tiny House” Lifestyle

Nippon no atarashii koya gurashi / ニッポンの新しい小屋暮らし

Yadokari

We no longer need big houses to live in. This collection of 11 case studies introduces the wonderful lifestyle of the “Tiny House,” a new movement emerging from the trend toward minimalism. ...