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Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. In his introduction, renowned translator William Scott Wilson explains the role these stories play in local Japanese cult……続きを見る

**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!** A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place-and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, and learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a gir……続きを見る

Strange Japanese Yokai assembles an extraordinary collection of mysterious creatures in every possible shape and size, each with their own unique back story. Some are well-known, others obscure. The one thing they share in common is that they are creepy and weird! The 122 different Yokai describe……続きを見る

［About This Book］ A hospice physician who has spent many years accompanying terminal patients reflects on how the power of humor can heal the heart and enrich human life. The author describes how small jokes exchanged during daily consultations ease tension and foster feelings of trust and reass……続きを見る

沖縄から北海道まで日本全国の名所をまとめた写真集 22 箇所のユネスコ世界遺産を含む、現在の日本を旅する上で重要な全国100箇所を網羅した写真集が登場。祭事や温泉、居酒屋などの大衆文化、テクノロジーなど日本独特の文化を解説した後、富士山、直島の現代アート、ニセコのスキー場、東北地方など各エリアの歴史・文……続きを見る

Beautifully told, this immigrant's account of an unforgettable journey is the story of a headstrong and empowered woman--a loyal wife, a widowed mother and a bilingual breadwinner--finding her way and finding her voice in a strange new world. Follow in her footsteps and trace the remarkable traje……続きを見る

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

Masujiro Honda (1866–1925), who wrote this autobiography, may be known to some through his translation such as the English version of Tadayoshi Sakurai's Nikudan (Human Bullets). As to his life and works little is known to the world, but in fact he was a figure who left a significant mark on ……続きを見る

[About the Book] A ray of light pierced through the darkness of defeat- Whistleblowing, obstruction, and unreasonable blame-shifting at a major chemical company crushed the author’s long-held faith in hard work, forcing him to face the depths of personal failure. At that very moment, he encountere……続きを見る

東京の魅力が詰まった英文ビジュアルブック 2019年ラグビーワールドカップ、2020年東京オリンピック開催等、世界から注目される街「東京」。外国人観光客の興味や関心が多様化するなか、伝統的なものと最先端のものが混在する東京は、外国人にとってますます魅力的な場所となり、人気が高まっています。そんな「東京」の……続きを見る

Zen Buddhist monk Gensho Taigu teaches that true happiness doesn't depend on changing the world around us-it depends on transforming what's inside us. In this clear and life-changing guide, he shares how a handful of timeless Buddhist principles can help us ease anxiety, quiet restless desires, an……続きを見る

« L'Homme se relève toujours » Sermons d’un prêtre du Temple To-ji, Tome 1 Cinq minutes par jour avec ce livre... et vous trouverez le courage d’affronter la vie Ce livre vous ouvre les portes d'un enseignement spirituel rare, transmis depuis de nombreuses annees par le maître Ninryo Yamada……続きを見る

Wrap anything from a wine bottle to a yoga mat with this practical Japanese fabric-wrapping book. Long before today's eco-friendly philosophy of "reduce, reuse, recycle" entered America's collective consciousness, furoshiki--the Japanese method of wrapping things with fabric--flourished as a time……続きを見る

The Poetry of Chiyo-ni introduces English-language readers to one of Japan's most luminous literary voices: Chiyo-ni (1703-1775), a poet, painter, and Buddhist nun who broke barriers to become Japan's most celebrated female haiku master. Living in an era when haiku was almost exclusively a male a……続きを見る

[About the Book] ーHow should we live in the coming era?- “The aim of this book is to spark a vigorous national debate on the creation of a new civilization by presenting contemporary issues and possible solutions-particularly to the younger generation-from the standpoint of wishing for the grow……続きを見る

Long before today's eco-friendly philosophy of "reduce, reuse, recycle" entered America's collective consciousness, furoshiki-the Japanese method of wrapping things with fabric-flourished as a time-honored and practical art form. In Wrapping With Fabric, Etsuko Yamada-born into a long-line of furo……続きを見る

仏教説話集『今昔物語』の英訳版 The Konjaku Monogatari Shu is a collection of tales from Buddhist and popular Japanese folklore that was compiled in the twelfth century. The stories in this book tell of fearsome demons, tengu goblins, kitsune fox spirits, flying hermits and gods who suddenly appea……続きを見る

民族学、神話学の権威であり、東南アジア研究の先覚者として著名な松本信広。松本はいつから、どのように、なぜ東南アジアの研究を始め、日本に東南アジア研究の礎を築いたのか。松本の戦前の著作に焦点を当て、彼の学問的特徴、および南進論や汎アジア主義などその影響を論 じる。全編英語。 Chapter 1: Discovering the……続きを見る

This book is highly significant in that it contains the words of military officials, journalists, diplomats and others who were in Nanjing in 1937. The so-called “Nanjing Incident” is a very controversy issue – even what to name it is controversial. The most obvious path to take to arrive at the f……続きを見る

1項目3分読書で世界史教養を深めるきっかけづくりを! 1時間後、もしかすると仕事に役立つ? ビジネタがどか~んと増えます! ? [編集の角度] 世界も歴史も、遠大にして無数の知識や出来事、そして 人物からなるものです。ゆえに語り尽くしたり知り尽くす ことは容易にできません。それでも世界や歴史に、私たち はつながり……続きを見る

This study, presented at the Japan Society for Curriculum Studies (JSCS) Sym- posium, underscores our firm commitment to international collaboration. In collaboration with the World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS) and JSCS, the central theme is “School-Based Curriculum Management for Teacher ……続きを見る

Education for Mental Health Awareness,Mindfulness isn’t just relaxation but it creates MetaAwareness. It’s the emotional intelligence, wisdom we can create and intentionally use for mental and physical health.Meta Awareness not only makes people mentally stable but leads every single individual to……続きを見る

Essays on the Theoretical, Historical and Cultural Background of the Law in Japan and Hungary続きを見る

You can see that sharing of means of production that projects of Heaven and gods are about to execute is true Marxism.続きを見る

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Jafar Suryomenggolo and Okamoto Masaaki Part 1: Governance and Social Dynamics Chapter 1: Managing Multiculturalism in 21st Century Indonesia amid Ethnic and Religious Diversity Thung Ju Lan Chapter 2: Post-Reformasi Dynamism of the U……続きを見る

After the publication of “The Natural World, Human Beings, and Life” in July 2012, following a computer malfunction, I decided to take the opportunity to fill in the squares of manuscript paper word by word, as I did in the past, and started to write “Kokyo Shoshin, Wisdom of Our Ancestors Learned……続きを見る

公民館・CLCを拠点とするESDの推進について包括的に解説した、英語版書籍です。続きを見る

2020年4月発行の『二階俊博幹事長論』（森田実）の英訳版。斬新な視点で描く二階俊博の全体像を英文で。 Introduction　Why I publish 'An Essay on Secretary-General Nikai Toshihiro' now Chapter 1　The real pictures of Nikai Toshihiro, who always acts up to the “with the people” attitude and “pacifi sm” Cha……続きを見る

2020年6月発行の『二階俊博の新たな挑戦』（森田実）の英訳版。平和・博愛・忠恕の政治家、二階俊博の政治の原点を英文で読む。 Foreword-Nikai’s challenge for lasting peace and the resilience of the global civilization Chapter 1　Nikai’s exceptional skill by which he accomplished the smooth change of powe……続きを見る