Policy Change under New Democratic Capitalism
Democratic capitalism in developed countries has been facing an unprecedented crisis since 2008. Its political manageability is declining sharply. Both democracy and capitalism now involve crucial risks that are significantly more serious than tho...
Blue Kiss (Thailändska)
Blue Kiss (Thailändska)
One Sunny Day
Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japa...
Understanding Tourism Mobilities in Japan
The total number of foreign tourists received in countries throughout the world was 530 million in 1995. That number broke through the 1 billion mark for the first time in 2012, at 1,035,000,000. In 2015, it reached 1,180,000,000. According to Ant...
Micro- and Nanobubbles
Microbubbles and nanobubbles have several characteristics that are comparable with millimeter- and centimeter-sized bubbles. These characteristics are their small size, which results in large surface area and high bioactivity, low rising velocity,...
The Men Who Created Gundam
In 1978 animation director Yoshiyuki Tomino set forth to change the Japanese animation industry. For decades prior, Japanese science fiction had churned out numerous tales of semi-autonomous robots that would often come to the aide of humanity, but as someone who worked on a number of those works, Tomino came to the realization that he wanted to see a more realistic robot narrative. His vision was one where the robot while just slightly more human in appearance, was utilized more as a tool manipulated by man. With renowned artist Yoshikazu Yasuhiko by his side, and occasionally as his artistic rival, Tomino would change the way the whole world came to see Japanese animation and the broader toy and comics industries built around it. This evolution would be a war in its own right! Battles were fought in the offices of the animation studio! Conflicts were equally as heated in the recording booth!
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 1
All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games! Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games! New Inklings take center stage as they and their friends embark on hilarious escapades in the world of S...
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 5
All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games! Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games! Hit, Maika, and Kou are back in the high-spirited fifth volume of stories from the world of Splatoon!
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 6
All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games! Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games! This sixth volume of the hilarious adventures of Hit and Maika is bound to even make their archenemies, ...
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 4
All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games! Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games! Fourth time around is the charm! Inklings Hit, Maika and Kou return for even more silly stories and fun ...
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 2
All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games! Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games! In these new stories from the world of Splatoon, Hit and Maika meet an elite boy named Ko who joins them...
Ichi the Killer (Omnibus) Vol. 2
Kakihara has tracked down Inoue! With a little?encouragement from Kakihara, Inoue gives up the name of Anjo's killer, Ichi - and tells Kakihara he's next on the list. Meanwhile, three mysterious visitors drop by Suzuki's hospital room. All of Shin...
HIKARI-MAN (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2
Shirochi Hikari, a lonely otaku obsessed with fighting games and PC mods, has it rough fighting to survive at the very bottom of the high school food chain. Nerdy with a weak constitution and electro-sensitivity, Hikari spends more time in the nur...
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2
Nakoshi Susumu, age 34, is living out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name--but not so little that he'll agree to be the subject of a scientific experiment. An unnerving m...
HIKARI-MAN (Omnibus) Vol. 5-6
After a meaningless fight with a junk shop owner, Hikari realizes what a selfish fool he's been. A hero is born! Meanwhile, people whose hearts have been contaminated by light, Electric Zombies, emerge and begin rampaging across Japan. Controlled ...
Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 3-4
Nakoshi has had plenty of questions since getting involved with Ito's experiment. But there is one thing in particular that's been nagging at him: Why do only some of the people he looks at appear monstrous, while others seem normal? Before he can...
The North Light
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama.How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is.Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four, The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.
HIKARI-MAN (Omnibus) Vol. 3-4
Shirochi Hikari, a lonely otaku obsessed with fighting games and PC mods, has it rough fighting to survive at the very bottom of the high school food chain. Nerdy with a weak constitution and electro-sensitivity, Hikari spends more time in the nur...
Seventeen
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER - FOR FANS OF SPOTLIGHT AND AFTER THE CRASH.'He's a master' New York Times Book Review'Very different . . . to almost anything out there' Observer1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.2002. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues' lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week - one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery, and represents Yuuki's final, unconquered fear.'Seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level - it's a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex. It's a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before I read anything as good' William Ryan
Prefecture D
A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it. SEASON OF SHADOWS "The force could lose face . . . I want you ...
Six Four
'This novel is a real, out-of-the-blue original. I've never read anything like it' New York Times Book Review THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE ITV SERIES STARRING KEVIN McKIDD AND VINETTE ROBINSON. THE MILLION-SELLING JAPANESE CRIME PHENOMENON, NOW A UK...
Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure
"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determine, consciously and unconsciously, what peop...
Slow Boat
A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'I've never made it out of Tokyo. I can't tell you how many times I've asked myself if the boundary is real. Of course it's real. And if you think I'm lying, you can come and see for yourself.' Trapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is not a passive loser, content to accept all that fate hands him. He attempts one last escape to the edges of the city, holding the only safety net he has known - his dreams. Filled with lyrical longing and humour, Slow Boat captures perfectly the urge to get away and the necessity of finding yourself in a world which might never even be looking for you. Hideo Furukawa, born in 1966, is an acclaimed and prize-winning writer, hailed by many in Japan's literary world as a prodigy worthy of inheriting the mantle of Haruki Murakami. He was awarded the Mishima Prize in 2006 for Love. His best-known novel is the 2008 Holy Family, an epic work of alternate history set in north-eastern Japan, where he was born.
Ichi the Killer (Omnibus) Vol. 1
Ichi may seem like a spineless weakling - but when the tears start flowing, a terrifying transformation takes place. Driven to his mental breaking point, Ichi becomes an unstoppable force of carnage, unleashing a torrent of violence on his next ta...
North Light
A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the Year Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residen...
The North Light
A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal KawaiMinoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama.How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is.Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four, The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.
Vibration and Oscillation of Hydraulic Machinery
This volume is concerned with vibration-free and quiet operation of hydraulic machines. It deals with the problems caused by mechanical and hydraulic excitations in hydraulic machinery (except for transients which are treated in a separate volume)...