The Budding Tree

Author: Aiko Kitahara Translator: Ian MacDonald January 2008, Dalkey Archive Press (ISBN: 978-1-5647-8489-6) This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the latter half of the Edo period, when the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and famines repeatedly swept the...

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The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi

Author: Kido Okamoto Translator: Ian MacDonald January 2007, University of Hawaii Press (ISBN: 978-0-8248-3100-4) Written in the 1910s and 20s, Hanshichi torimonocho is a beloved work of popular literature. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective (loosely modeled on Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes), the work inaugurated Japan’s historical detective genre and spawned stage, radio,...

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Unlocking Tannisho: Shinran's Words on the Pure Land Path

By Takamori Kentetsu, translated by Juliet Carpenter, published by Ichimannendo Publishing, 2011 Even a good person will be born in the Pure Land; how much more so an evil person! Concerning good and evil alike I know nothing at all. -Shinran Can you believe these are the words of the great Buddhist master? Tannisho (Lamenting the Deviations) clarifies the heart of Pure Land Buddhism and...

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The Story of Buddha: A Graphic Biography

By Ota Hisashi, translated by Juliet Carpenter, published by Ichimannendo Publishing, 2011/2012 For the First Time – Buddha’s Life Story is Illustrated into Manga What is happiness? What’s the point of living the way I do, day in and day out? Two thousand six hundred years ago, in his youth Buddha (Sakyamuni) had the same nagging questions that we do today. He never avoided them or gave up...

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Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity

Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA, and the Transitional Economies By Masahiko Aoki, Translated by Stacey Jehlik This book uses differences in firm and market regulation and organization to explain differences in national economic performance. These differences affect the way in which firms process information, which is crucial to...

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閉ざされた庭で

著者: エリザベス・デイリー  出版社: 論創社(2014年12月)  翻訳者: 安達眞弓 暗雲が立ち込める不吉な庭での射殺事件 大いなる遺産を巡って骨肉相食む血族 アガサ・クリスティーから一目置かれた女流作家 エリザベス・デイリーの本領が発揮された長編本格ミステリ

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都会で聖者になるのはたいへんだ~ブルース・スプリングスティーン インタヴュー集1973-2012

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ジミ・ヘンドリクスかく語りき

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Monkey Brain Sushi

Edited by Alfred Birnbaum, with two stories translated by Terry Gallagher This ground-breaking anthology “reflects what may seem to Westerners an almost decadent interest in pastiche, in literary appropriation and in the flouting of tradition for its own sake. Hipper than thou, most of the 11 young writers represented here appear out to shock an easily titillated society.” (Publishers Weekly)

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The Stationmaster

by Jiro Asada, translated by Terry Gallagher Japanese original was a bestseller, selling over two million copies. Won Naoki award for popular fiction in 1997, and spawned several films: 1999 film starred yakuza film icon Ken Takakura, who won a best actor award at the 1999 Montreal Film Festival for his performance, title film was Japan's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign...

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