A sequel volume collecting Tadashi Amano’s poetry. In plain language touched with humor and bitterness, it evokes aging, daily life, solitude, and the atmosphere of the city.

Unadorned language quietly illuminates the pathos and humanity of daily life.

An Iwanami Shinsho volume that explains structural changes in the world economy through transformations in capitalism, relations among states, and expanding corporate activity. It presents an accessible framework for readers seeking to understand global economics.

An introduction to seeing the world economy not as separate national units but as an interdependent structure.

An essay collection by poet Kim Si-jong on the thought and lived reality of being Korean in Japan. It sharply reconsiders language, education, ethnicity, the state, and the individual.

The book rethinks “Zainichi” not as a passive attribute but as a question of life and thought.

An autobiographical work about Kiyo Awazu, who lived with visual and hearing impairments. It tells of learning, working, and building a life through relationships despite severe difficulties.

A record of gaining one’s own words and way of life while facing disability.

A work about skunk cabbage blooming in wetlands such as Oze, conveying nature conservation and regional memory. It looks beyond the beauty of the flower to the people who strive to protect its environment.

By protecting a single flower, the relationship between wetlands and people comes into view.

A large multivolume series that comprehensively treats Japanese folk culture through natural environments, belief, social structures, and everyday life. Edited by Kenichi Tanigawa and others, it explores the foundations of Japanese culture through regional diversity.

A series that crosses regional folk traditions to reveal deeper layers of Japanese culture.

A large specialist multivolume series systematically covering fields of biology. It treats classification, morphology, physiology, evolution, and related areas as a foundational resource for researchers and students.

A specialist series gathering biological knowledge across multiple fields.

A photography book by Banri Namikawa capturing the architecture, ornament, and urban spaces of Isfahan, Iran. It visually conveys the beauty of blue tiles, mosques, and squares inherited from the Safavid era.

Blue ornament and desert light reveal Isfahan as a historic city.

A reference work that follows Meiji-era newspaper articles chronologically, reading politics, society, culture, incidents, and customs through the news. It offers a way to grasp modern Japan through contemporary reporting.

A reference work that reads the Meiji era through accumulated contemporary news.