Mutsumi Yamashiro’s substantial critical study reads Dostoevsky’s major works while also considering Futabatei Shimei, Bakhtin, and modern Japanese literature. It follows questions of underground dissent, crime and punishment, resurrection, family, and faith through close reading.

Deep inside Dostoevsky’s fiction, dissenting voices cross with a gaze seeking salvation.

This sociological study analyzes how Fukushima came to accept nuclear power and form the structure called the nuclear village, through postwar growth, center-periphery relations, and local dependency. It asks about long historical structures beyond post-disaster emotion.

It reexamines what turned Fukushima into “Fukushima” through postwar growth and local structures.

This science essay considers the origins of the human mind and the capacity to imagine through chimpanzee research. Drawing on the Ai Project and field observation, it examines despair, hope, cooperation, and parent-child bonds through differences between humans and our ape neighbors.

To look closely at chimpanzees is also to redraw the outline of the human mind.

Iseki o Manabu is Shinsensha’s archaeology series, generally devoting one volume to one site and presenting excavation results and local history for general readers. Under Mitsunori Tozawa’s supervision, leading researchers explain each site’s investigation, discoveries, and scholarly importance.

From a single site, the reader sees regional time and the methods of archaeology.

This fifteen-volume saga continues Kenzo Kitakata’s Water Margin. Three years after Liangshan’s fall, the survivors hide across the land, and the return of Yang Ling, son of Yang Zhi, leads them toward revival and the dream of a new country, shaped by war, trade, ideals, and reality.

The remnants of Liangshan try to move history again under Yang Ling.