Sakusha no Ie: People After Mokuami is Toshio Kawatake's nonfiction work of modern theater and family history. After the death of kabuki playwright Kawatake Mokuami, his daughter Itome preserves the family line, and the book traces that household's history through both the author's family memory and theater scholarship.

A nonfiction account of the house of a kabuki playwright and the changes of modern Japan through Mokuami's successors.

Eikoku Tetsudo Monogatari is Shigeru Koike's critical account linking British railway history with literary culture. Through the birth and development of railways, timetables and travel culture, and railways in Dickens, detective fiction, and other writing, it portrays modern British society and imagination.

A critical work on modern British transport culture that moves between railway history and literature.

Koinu no Roku ga Yattekita is a children's story by Rieko Nakagawa with illustrations by Soya Nakagawa. Centered on Roku, a puppy taken into young Ichiro's home, it warmly portrays family life, a child's growth, and the bond between people and an animal.

A story of family and childhood told through the days Ichiro spends with Roku, the puppy who joins his household.

Tokei Jidai: Between Edo and Tokyo is Shinzo Ogi's work of urban social history. It argues that Edo did not simply become the modern capital Tokyo in one leap, and portrays the transitional urban life of the early Meiji period through ordinary people's lives and the lingering presence of Edo culture.

A social history of early Meiji urban life between Edo and Tokyo.

Pekin Sanjugonen: Chugoku Kakumei no Naka no Nihonjin Gishi is Ichiro Yamamoto's memoir of thirty-five years in China. Through the experiences of a Japanese engineer living in Beijing, it recounts social change from the final years of the Sino-Japanese War through the founding of the People's Republic and the Cultural Revolution.

A memoir that follows revolutionary China, its city life, and its workers through the eyes of a Japanese engineer in Beijing.

Waraji Isha Kyo Nikki: Boke o Mitsumete is a collection of essays by Kazuteru Hayakawa, a physician at Horikawa Hospital in Kyoto. Drawing on home visits and clinical practice, it portrays elderly patients and their families in language grounded in everyday community medicine.

Essays from Kyoto's community medicine setting on aging, dementia, family, and ordinary people's final years.

Genji Monogatari no Eiyaku no Kenkyu is a comparative-literature study of English translations of The Tale of Genji. It examines issues of expression, interpretation, and reception as the classical Japanese text is rendered into English, including Arthur Waley's translation.

A comparative-literature study of English translations of The Tale of Genji, focused on expression and reception.

Tanaka Shozo Zenshu is a collected edition of writings, records, speeches, diaries, and letters by Shozo Tanaka, who devoted his life to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution struggle. It traces his political activity, solidarity with affected communities, and resistance to modern Japan's pollution crisis through his own words and related materials.

A collected edition that presents Shozo Tanaka's thought and action on the Ashio pollution struggle through writings, speeches, diaries, and letters.

Doyu Bunkashi: Kogen ni Motozuku Kosho-teki Kenkyu is Toshiro Hanzawa's systematic cultural and folkloric study of children's play. It gathers traditional games, toys, play methods, and regional variations, using observation and historical verification to depict children's everyday culture.

A large-scale folkloric cultural history of children's play through traditions, toys, and regional variation.

Issa Zenshu is a collected edition of Kobayashi Issa's haiku, notebooks, travel writings, diaries, haibun, prose and verse collections, anthologies, letters, miscellaneous writings, related haikai materials, biographical materials, and research documents. Edited by the Shinano Education Association, it broadly traces Issa's writing, life, and haikai world.

A collected edition of Issa's haiku, diaries, letters, and related materials that follows the poet's life and expression.

Kyoto no Igakushi is a comprehensive history of medicine in Kyoto edited by the Kyoto Medical Association. Across its main text and source volume, it traces medical institutions, physicians, ideas of illness, medical education, and regional practice from the Heian period to the modern era.

A large two-volume history that reads Kyoto as a central site in the history of Japanese medicine.