Chaos no Musume is a novel by Masahiko Shimada. Against a background of family, blood ties, and urban disorder, it can be read as a story where individual desire intersects with the distortions of the age.

In the midst of chaos, a story of family and desire rises with unease.

Watashi no Jokamachi is Naoyuki Kinoshita’s art and cultural history of castles and castle towers in postwar Japan. It asks why castles continue to attract people by reading memory, tourism, and local identity through modern history.

Through castles lost, rebuilt, and loved, the book reads the emotional shape of postwar Japan.

Okamoto Taro no Mita Nihon is Norio Akasaka’s critical study of Japanese culture through Taro Okamoto’s view of Japan, crossing Jomon culture, folklore, Tohoku, and modernity. Through Okamoto’s gaze, it seeks an image of Japan outside institutional art history.

Borrowing Taro Okamoto’s gaze, the book searches for wildness and resistance to modernity beneath Japanese culture.

Confidant Kizuna is a stage play written and directed by Koki Mitani. It portrays friendship and jealousy among painters such as Van Gogh and Gauguin as a witty and poignant conversational drama.

The artists’ friendship gradually wavers between trust and jealousy.

I Just Didn’t Do It: Japan’s Criminal Trials Still Raise Questions is Masayuki Suo’s book on the questions about criminal justice that emerged through making the film. Through the screenplay and commentary, it makes wrongful accusation and the justice system concrete.

From one person’s claim of innocence, the mechanisms of Japan’s criminal trials come into view.