"Shimai" is a novel by Futami Azeyanagi, based on her own schoolgirl years, about the growth of two sisters with contrasting temperaments. Published in 1954, it received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award and was later adapted for film. Against the background of Hokkaido's nature, family life, and school, the sisters learn to trust one another while carrying their differences.

An autobiographical novel that depicts Hokkaido's landscape and the trust of girlhood through the growth of contrasting sisters.

Yoake Asaake is a children's novel by Sue Sumii. Set in a postwar rural village in Ibaraki, it follows orphaned siblings who support one another through poverty and loneliness. The novel views harsh rural life through children's eyes and portrays growth and hope amid hardship.

As night gives way to morning, the children nurture the strength to live by supporting one another through poverty.

"Village Library" was an Iwanami Shoten educational book series published in the 1950s for rural readers. It treated village life, politics, medicine, international affairs, and related subjects in accessible language, with reading groups and local study settings in mind.

This postwar educational publishing series sought to bring books on society and daily life to rural readers.

"Minka no Niwa" is a study by art historian Sada Nishimura on gardens attached to Japanese folk houses, presenting their forms, ties to everyday life, and regional character through text and illustrations. Published by Bijutsu Shuppansha in 1953, it received the 1954 Mainichi Publishing Culture Award.

A study that views folk-house gardens as lived spaces and reads the relationship between Japanese dwellings and gardens through illustrations.

Isoko Hatano's "Psychology of Young Children" is a child psychology book that explains early childhood mental development in accessible terms for mothers and caregivers. It encourages childrearing that begins by trusting children's potential and understanding their everyday behavior and emotions.

This childrearing book looks at the mind behind young children's behavior and at their capacity to grow.

Shizen Kagaku no Meicho is Mitsutomo Yuasa's guide to classics of natural science. It surveys major scientific works from antiquity to the modern era and shows contemporary readers how to read and make use of scientific classics.

A guide to scientific classics through both historical development and modern ways of reading.

"Shinrigaku Koza" is a large-scale psychology series edited by the Japan Association of Applied Psychology and published by Nakayama Shoten from 1953 to 1954. Covering modern psychology, development, learning, clinical psychology, social psychology, and related fields, it was planned as an encyclopedia of modern psychology for postwar Japan.

A major series compiled to survey postwar Japanese psychology systematically, from foundations to applications.

Nogyo Zusetsu Taikei is a five-volume illustrated agricultural reference work edited by Yakichi Noguchi. It organizes knowledge on crops, breeding, and the foundations of agriculture through diagrams and explanatory text, serving both practical and educational needs in postwar Japan.

Through diagrams and explanation, the work systematically presents agricultural technology and crop knowledge in postwar Japan.

"Student Science Dictionary" is a science dictionary for students published by Chukyo Shuppan in 1954. It gathered scientific terms and basic knowledge into a large practical reference volume for students studying science.

This student dictionary gathered natural-science knowledge into one volume to support postwar science learning.

A large Heibonsha encyclopedia of world history, covering people, places, events, institutions, and cultural topics from antiquity to the modern period in a multi-volume set with index and source-material volumes.

An encyclopedia that explains major topics in world history by entry, supported by indexes and source-material volumes for cross-period and cross-regional reference.