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[About the Book] ーWhere does poetry come from, and where is it headed?- In postwar Japan, as rapid urbanization advanced alongside national reconstruction, what did poets in rural regions write about? When the social structures supported by economic growth began to break down and the postwar sens……続きを見る

[About the Book] In rural Japan, songs and dances were deeply woven into everyday life. This volume is a valuable ethnographic study that documents and analyzes agricultural rituals and everyday folk songs passed down orally in the Shizuoka region of Japan. Throughout the agricultural year, work……続きを見る

［About This Book］ For decades, we’ve been told that aging is caused by DNA damage from reactive oxygen species. But what if that’s only half the story? What if the true driver of aging, wrinkles, and disease is simply an "energy shortage"? In The Aging Spiral Theory, Masato Hiki, M.D., Ph.D.-a ……続きを見る

[About the Book] How much do you really know about Minamata disease, the tragedy that shook Japan in the 1950s? Often described as the worst industrial pollution disaster in Japanese history, the crisis began with strange behavior in cats and the illness of a single young girl. Drawing on contemp……続きを見る

Miso is produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and koji yeast. Not only is it packed with nutrition and gut-friendly probiotics-supporting immunity, digestion, anti-aging and recovery from fatigue-it enhances the flavor of any dish you add it to. Use it in miso soups, Japanese and Western-style……続きを見る

[About the Book] This book bridges the Buddhist view of life and death with contemporary bioethics, written by a former head priest of Kōsaiji Temple of the Jōdo Shinshū Hongwanji-ha tradition and a scholar of bioethics. Part I is based on public lectures and offers a Buddhist reading of “birth, a……続きを見る

This book is the third revised edition of author's book entitled "Fractional Calculus -An extension of differential and integral calculus-" which is a monograph on the theory of fractional calculus. The theory in this book is built on an operator-based formulation and a wide range of contents has ……続きを見る

These all-new translations of four landmark essays by Junichiro Tanizaki bring fresh insights to the work of one of Japan's most acclaimed writers. The translations by Michael P. Cronin bring together Tanizaki's famous meditation on Japanese aesthetics with three other fascinating cultural comment……続きを見る

[About the Book] ーTrue healing emerges when medicine returns to the harmonious circulation of mind and universe.- Has modern medicine come to focus too narrowly on the body alone? As science advances, the mind is often left behind, and discussions of views on life and death or spiritual belief h……続きを見る

[About the Book] A family record in which the “end of the war” never truly ended. In 1940, following their father’s assignment, an older sister and her younger brother left Japan for Manchuria as part of a pioneer settlement. What began as a new life on fertile land was soon engulfed by the stor……続きを見る

○Pough, F.H., Bemis, W.E., McGuire, B.A., & Janis, C.M.著，Vertebrate Life, 11th Ed.（Oxford University Press，2022）の全訳 ○脊椎動物の系統・進化・形態・生理・生態・行動を絶滅種も含めてわかりやすく解説 ○約2000点の写真とイラストからなる系統樹などの豊富な図版で脊椎動物の多様性の理解を深める ○脊椎動……続きを見る

明治期のジャーナリストであり、潜伏キリシタンの研究者でもあった鈴木秀三郎。 本書は、彼が日本における宗教迫害の実態を広く海外に紹介する目的で、すべて英文で執筆したものである。 彼が研究にあたって収集した遺物および関連資料52 点の写真を掲載し、解説を付す。 あわせてキリシタン迫害の概観をまとめた論考を収……続きを見る