A near-future novel in which special forces claiming to be North Korean rebels seize control of Fukuoka in 2011. Across two volumes, it interweaves politics, military action, the city, and young people's perspectives to depict Japan's fragility and reactions in crisis.

Through the fictional seizure of Fukuoka, the novel shakes the foundations of near-future Japan.

A biography tracing the young Ikki Kita through his upbringing on Sado, love, poetry, and the formation of his thought. Rather than focusing only on his later political radicalism, it illuminates youthful frustration and literary sensibility to present a more dimensional portrait.

A biography that reads the young Ikki Kita through love, poetry, and the first signs of revolution.

A memoir-like nonfiction work by Masaru Sato, a former Foreign Ministry official nicknamed Rasputin, recounting his arrest, interrogation, and experience of what he frames as politically driven prosecution. It analyzes diplomacy, intelligence, and state power from an insider's perspective.

An insider in a Foreign Ministry scandal recounts the machinery of state power and intelligence.

A scientific introduction and proposal that reframes environmental problems through risk assessment rather than fear or impression. It offers a compass for thinking about which risks around chemicals and environmental policy should be weighed, and how heavily.

The book rethinks environmental anxiety through the tool of risk assessment.

An encyclopedia gathering research on form across biology, physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, and other fields. Through roughly 360 entries, it organizes scientific perspectives on form across disciplinary boundaries.

An encyclopedia that treats form, appearing across many fields, as a cross-disciplinary theme of science.