Fumiko Hayashi's Showa is Saburo Kawamoto's critical biography of Hayashi, rereading her life and work within the urban landscape of the Showa era. Rather than reducing her to wartime collaboration, it approaches her through Tokyo, wandering, film adaptations, and women's self-reliance.

A critical biography that follows Fumiko Hayashi's literature and era as if walking through Showa streets.

Democracy and Patriotism is a large-scale study of postwar Japanese nationalism and publicness, examining intellectuals, political movements, education, constitutional debate, and the protests over the security treaty. It traces how the language of democracy and patriotism was rearranged across postwar decades.

The book reads postwar Japan through the tension between democracy and patriotism.

Japan's Middle Ages is a historical series from Chuokoron-Shinsha associated with Yoshihiko Amino and other scholars. It reimagines medieval Japan not only through state-centered chronology but also through faith, cities, maritime people, commerce, culture, and regional diversity.

A series that redraws medieval Japan through the movement of diverse people and places.

The Discovery of Magnetism and Gravity is Yoshitaka Yamamoto's major history of science, tracing the transformation of views of nature from antiquity to the early modern period through the understanding of action at a distance. It shows how experience, navigation, experiment, and mathematical description prepared modern science.

Through questions of magnetism and gravity, the work explains the beginnings of modern science.

The Wall of Fools begins from Takeshi Yoro's argument that people understand only what can enter their own brains, then discusses information, individuality, education, the body, and social assumptions. Written in accessible prose, it warns against the danger of believing one has already understood.

The book reexamines the mental wall of assumed understanding through the body and the brain.