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From haunted schools and forgotten shrines to eerie train stations and vengeful spirits, Japanese Urban Legends lifts the lid on the spooky stories that have haunted Japan for generations. These 124 tales are filled with goosebump-inducing details and vivid full-color illustrations on every page, ……続きを見る

[About the Book] ーEducation that nurtures the heart creates the future- This book is the life’s work of the author, an English teacher who has dedicated his career to the practice of education rooted in Japan’s traditions of kokoro no kyōiku (education of the heart), spiritual discipline, and m……続きを見る

In Japan, where the number of foreign residents is increasing rapidly, how are migrant children whose mother tongue is not Japanese learning their mother tongue and Japanese at school? We call them CLD (Culturally Linguistically Diverse) children (Cummins, 1991). This book is the result of the fir……続きを見る

A chance discovery of sixty-odd works of art in a filing cabinet in Kyoto University’s Department of Geography in 2014 triggered an investigation which soon morphed into a multi-disciplinary research project seeking to understand their origins and significance. The works were reproductions of sket……続きを見る