Showa seishinshi is a critical study that reads the Showa era through tensions among thought, literature, and politics. It layers personal intellectual history with changes in state and society, tracing shifts in Japanese consciousness from prewar to postwar years.

It traces the path of minds that lived through Showa from the depths of literature and thought.

Oral Tradition Theory examines storytelling and memory before they are fixed in writing from an anthropological perspective. Through narrated tales, ritual, and embodied memory, it asks how human societies have transmitted knowledge.

Within transmitted voices, it searches for the forms of social memory and knowledge.

A large work of natural anthropology that traces the origins of human family, society, and behavior through primate studies. It combines field observation with comparative analysis, placing human beings within the continuum of animal societies.

It looks at human origins through primate societies rather than treating humanity as separate from nature.

A sourcebook that examines excavated textile remains through photographs and documentation. It connects archaeology with textile history and shows how fibers reveal the history of daily life and technology.

It reads ancient techniques and everyday life from the details of textile remains.

A fourteen-volume series that presents Japanese history and performing arts through sound, images, and written materials. It treats folk performance, festivals, narrative arts, and spectacles through both historical study and field documentation.

It follows layers of Japanese culture by treating performance not only as text but also through sound and image.

A fourteen-volume series that presents Japanese history and performing arts through sound, images, and written materials. It treats folk performance, festivals, narrative arts, and spectacles through both historical study and field documentation.

It follows layers of Japanese culture by treating performance not only as text but also through sound and image.

A fourteen-volume series that presents Japanese history and performing arts through sound, images, and written materials. It treats folk performance, festivals, narrative arts, and spectacles through both historical study and field documentation.

It follows layers of Japanese culture by treating performance not only as text but also through sound and image.

A fourteen-volume series that presents Japanese history and performing arts through sound, images, and written materials. It treats folk performance, festivals, narrative arts, and spectacles through both historical study and field documentation.

It follows layers of Japanese culture by treating performance not only as text but also through sound and image.

A fourteen-volume series that presents Japanese history and performing arts through sound, images, and written materials. It treats folk performance, festivals, narrative arts, and spectacles through both historical study and field documentation.

It follows layers of Japanese culture by treating performance not only as text but also through sound and image.

A fourteen-volume series that presents Japanese history and performing arts through sound, images, and written materials. It treats folk performance, festivals, narrative arts, and spectacles through both historical study and field documentation.

It follows layers of Japanese culture by treating performance not only as text but also through sound and image.

The Southeast Asian Studies lecture series treats Southeast Asia comprehensively from history, society, culture, politics, economics, and other fields. Bringing together the accumulated work of area studies, it provided a foundation for systematic study of Southeast Asia in Japanese.

A lecture series that brought diverse regions into a single field of view and helped establish the basis of Southeast Asian studies.

The Southeast Asian Studies lecture series is a large scholarly project for understanding Southeast Asia from multiple angles. By crossing history, society, culture, politics, and economics, it presents the region's complexity and interconnections in depth.

It reads Southeast Asia across disciplines and offers a map for area studies.

A large dictionary that explains the world’s languages through names, families, distribution, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and references. The world-language section spans multiple volumes and serves as a basic reference for individual languages.

A major dictionary that expands the map of linguistics by tracing the world’s languages one by one.

A large dictionary that explains the world’s languages through names, families, distribution, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and references. The world-language section spans multiple volumes and serves as a basic reference for individual languages.

A major dictionary that expands the map of linguistics by tracing the world’s languages one by one.