In northern Burma during the Second World War, an officer is murdered in a village where a Japanese army guard unit is stationed. As the army tries to contain the situation without revealing the cause of death to the villagers, another incident exposes military formalities, tensions with local society, and the pressure placed on individual conscience.

The death of one officer opens up the conscience and deception hidden deep within the battlefield.

Genron 0: A Philosophy of the Tourist is a work of philosophy that uses the figure of the tourist, a person marked by contingency, to rethink public life in an age of globalization and networks. It reconnects Hiroki Azuma's ideas of postal multitude, family, and misdelivery, and examines possibilities opened between politics and consumption, the state and the individual.

A book that reconsiders solidarity and publicness in contemporary society through the seemingly light figure of the tourist.

Singing Snails: A Story of Evolution and Spirals is a science nonfiction book that explores the history and fieldwork of evolutionary research through the shell coiling and courtship behavior of snails. By following researchers' trial and error and scientific debates, it turns the emergence and understanding of biological diversity into a compelling narrative.

From the spiral of a small snail, a much larger story of evolutionary theory emerges.

The New Testament: Translation and Commentary is a large-scale translation and research project in which Kenzo Tagawa translates the books of the New Testament from the original texts and adds detailed annotations. Rather than presupposing a devotional reading, it rigorously examines textual history, language, and intellectual background while rendering the texts into modern Japanese.

Through translation and commentary grounded in the original texts, it rereads the New Testament as a historical text.

To Africa to Defeat Locusts is a science-adventure nonfiction book in which entomologist Kotaro Maeno Urdo takes on research in Mauritania to help stop damage caused by desert locusts. With humor about funding, employment, and life in the field, it conveys both the harshness and appeal of field science.

A science book that portrays a researcher's struggle in Africa in pursuit of locusts with both humor and urgency.