Jiro Asada's long novel is set in the northern reaches at the end of the Second World War, where fighting continues even after Japan's surrender broadcast, and many lives intersect around the Kataoka family.

A sweeping novel that asks what human life means in a war that did not end when the war was declared over.

Eiji Sone's nonfiction account records life in a mountain community marked by depopulation and aging, portraying the people who continue to sustain it.

A documentary work that reconsiders depopulation in Japanese society through life in a village labeled as being at its limit.

Psychopathologist Bin Kimura recounts his life and research in an autobiographical work that moves from psychiatry toward clinical philosophy.

A work that moves from clinical psychiatric experience into philosophical reflection on selfhood and time.

This anthology project reselects world literature under the personal editorship of Natsuki Ikezawa, presenting it as a living reading experience for the present.

An anthology project in which Natsuki Ikezawa's editorial vision renews the way world literature is read.

Hiroyuki Itsuki's historical novel portrays Shinran through youth, suffering, exile, and encounters with ordinary people, emphasizing him as a human being before presenting him as a religious figure.

A historical novel of faith that portrays Shinran as a newly human figure.