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Author | : Soji Shimada |
Publisher | : Red Circle |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912864102 |
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A love story that explores the mechanics of the heart and humankind's inevitable evolution. One Love Chigusa by Soji Shimada, one of Japan's most famous authors, is a tale of obsessive love in a world where technology has crept into the very heart of humanity. The year is 2091 AD. A horrendous motorcycle accident leaves Xie Hoyu coming to terms with his new cybernetic body. Reconstructed from the latest biomechanical prosthetics, he is discharged from hospital and tries to return to his life as an illustrator after many weeks in recovery. While surgery saves his life, existence for Xie has lost all meaning. His saviour comes in the form of a girl with whom Xie falls hopelessly in love. But not all is as it seems. Translated by Sir David Warren, a retired diplomat and former British ambassador to Japan, One Love Chigusa offers a glimpse into a possible future and questions the purpose of humanity in a manner that only Japan's master of the postmodern whodunnit can do. Red Circle Minis: Original, Short and Compelling Reads One Love Chigusa is part of Red Circle Minis, a series of short captivating books by Japan's finest contemporary writers that brings the narratives and voices of Japan together as never before. Each book is a first edition written specifically for the series and is being published in English first.
Author | : Frederik L. Schodt |
Publisher | : Stone Bridge Press, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1611729440 |
Download My Heart Sutra Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Heart Sutra is the most widely read, chanted, and copied text in East Asian Buddhism. Here Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the sutra: its mesmerizing mantra, its ancient history, the “emptiness theory, and the way it is used around the world as a metaphysical tool to overcome chaos and confusion and reach a new understanding of reality--a perfection of wisdom. Schodt's journey takes him to caves in China, American beats declaiming poetry, speculations into the sutra's true origins, and even a robot Avalokiteśvara at a Kyoto temple.
Author | : Takuji Ichikawa |
Publisher | : Red Circle Minis |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2021-09-22 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781912864126 |
Download Monkey Man Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A world on the brink of disaster where children with new attitudes are awakening - some with strange new abilities. Monkey Man challenges readers to consider how the human race can be saved from itself.
Author | : Kazufumi Shiraishi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781912864003 |
Download Stand-In Companion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Stand-In Companion explores the struggle to find love, companionship and meaning in life. In any society, relationship dynamics are complex. And as Hayato, a Japanese industrial designer will discover in this clever and absorbing tale, this is even the case in a future world enriched by technology, AI and androids.
Author | : Chigusa Yamaura |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 150175016X |
Download Marriage and Marriageability Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking—individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief meeting—come to see one another as potential marriage partners? Motivated by this question, Chigusa Yamaura traces the practices of Sino-Japanese matchmaking from transnational marriage agencies in Tokyo to branch offices and language schools in China, from initial meetings to marriage, the visa application processes, and beyond to marital life in Japan. Engaging issues of colonial history, local norms, and the very ability to conceive of another or oneself as marriageable, Marriage and Marriageability rethinks cross-border marriage not only as a form of gendered migration, but also as a set of practices that constructs marriageable partners and imaginable marriages. Yamaura shows that instead of desiring different others, these transnational marital relations are based on the tactical deployment of socially and historically created conceptions of proximity between Japan and northeast China. Far from seeking to escape local practices, participants in these marriages actively seek to avoid transgressing local norms. By doing so on a transnational scale, they paradoxically reaffirm and attempt to remain within the boundaries of local marital ideologies.
Author | : Takuji Ichikawa |
Publisher | : Red Circle Minis |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2019-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781912864089 |
Download The Refugees' Daughter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a society rife with conflict and a world on the edge of extinction, who should we turn to for answers: society's strongest or weakest? This is the question Takuji Ichikawa, one of Japan's most imaginative and unusual authors, poses in The Refugees' Daughter, a magical modern parable for our troubled times. Through this terrifying and dreamlike dystopia, a young girl is amongst those fleeing their homes and seeking safety. From Ichikawa, a Japanese author whose books sell in the millions, comes a thought provoking piece which addresses themes of humanity, responsibility and the need to have a place to call home. Exploring power, patriarchy, strength and freedom, this vision of a frighteningly familiar world asks vital questions. Translated by Emily Balistrieri, The Refugees' Daughter is a powerful, poignant and utterly relevant tale that will resound in the minds of everyone who has ever searched for hope. Red Circle Minis: Original, Short and Compelling Reads The Refugees' Daughter is part of Red Circle Minis, a series of short captivating books by Japan's finest contemporary writers that brings the narratives and voices of Japan together as never before. Each book is a first edition written specifically for the series and is being published in English first.
Author | : Louise Allison Cort |
Publisher | : Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Chigusa and the Art of Tea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Chigusa and the Art of Tea, February 22-July 27, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Princeton University Art Museum, September 13, 2014-January 4, 2015.
Author | : Kanji Hanawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781912864041 |
Download Backlight Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This thought-provoking and intriguing tale, by the Akutagawa Prize-nominated master short story writer Kanji Hanawa, revolves around the extraordinary real story of the seven-year-old boy who went missing in the bear-inhabited forests of northern Japan for six whole days in 2016, after his parents had apparently abandoned him as a punishment. In Backlight, a child is left alone at the side of a road in the mountains of Hokkaido in northern Japan by his parents. When they return moments later, the boy is gone. Ishida, a Professor of Psychology is enlisted as part of the search team. As days pass, the search goes on and the number of people involved reaches more than one thousand. Ishida and his colleagues assess, analyse and discuss mostly at a safe and comfortable distance, taking them on their own journey from theories concerning the whereabouts of the child, to the very heart of the Japanese psyche. A complex and challenging look at an unfolding emergency, a culture and a country. Red Circle Minis: Original, Short and Compelling Reads Backlight is part of Red Circle Minis, a series of short captivating books by Japan's finest contemporary writers that brings the narratives and voices of Japan together as never before. Each book is a first edition written specifically for the series and is being published in English first.
Author | : Roger Pulvers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781912864027 |
Download Tokyo Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tokyo Performance is set in the pre-internet age, brilliantly captures the zeitgeist of Japan at the time. In this riveting, entertaining and wholly poignant tale, a Japanese celebrity receives a phone call while live on air that will change his life forever. Nori, a high profile Tokyo-based celebrity chef with his own weekly television show, is famous and beloved and he knows it - but he's about to put in his strangest performance. Award-winning writer, playwright and film director, Roger Pulvers, brings his love and deep fascination for Japanese culture to Tokyo Performance, a funny and, at times, tragic story, which explores the cost of fame. Red Circle Minis: Original, Short and Compelling Reads Tokyo Performance is part of Red Circle Minis, a series of short captivating books by Japan's finest contemporary writers that brings the narratives and voices of Japan together as never before. Each book is a first edition written specifically for the series and is being published in English first.
Author | : Masahiro Imamura |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Death Among the Undead Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"... a work of great importance." Soji Shimada, author of "The Toko Zodiac Murders" "Death Among the Undead" is the only novel ever to have achieved first place in all four major annual mystery fiction rankings in Japan. It was an overnight sensation and was turned into a film and a manga. Its success was due to the novel twist of adding zombies to a shin honkaku country house setting, but fans of locked room mysteries and closed circle plots need not worry. The iron-clad rules regarding the zombies' behaviour and existence are rigorously observed, and are used to create the boundaries of the mystery in a highly ingenious way. A dozen students decide to rent a boarding house in the mountains. A nearby bioterrorism event results in the house being surrounded by zombies. Initially they are repelled by the occupants using swords and spears, but then a murder occurs inside a room locked on the inside. A human could not have made the bite marks that killed the victim, but a zombie could not have got into the room to make them. More murders occur. Theories abound, but are knocked down as soon as they are proposed. The solution is an extraordinary exercise in deduction. Locked Room International translates and publishes the works of international impossible crime authors past and present.