"TIMELESS：石岡瑛子とその時代" is a 受賞 work from the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Mainichi Publishing Culture Award 2021-1.

"人びとのなかの冷戦世界：想像が現実となるとき" is a 受賞 work from the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Mainichi Publishing Culture Award 2021-1.

From the perspective of statistical universals of language, this book traces the complexity and self-similarity of human language, moving across Zipf's law, long-range correlation, and language models to explore the structure of language and the depths of sign use.

A book that reads the mysteries of language, perhaps a "broken fractal," from both mathematical and philosophical angles.

A 33-volume Chikuma Bunko set gathering Kazuko Matsuoka's complete personal translation of Shakespeare's 37 plays. It stands as the culmination of a long translation project, with detailed notes, commentary, and performance chronology that reframe the classics in vivid Japanese.

The 33-volume culmination of Kazuko Matsuoka's personal translation of Shakespeare.

"Chekhov's Mountain" traces Chekhov's footsteps in Sakhalin and the memories left in the landscape, quietly portraying how people live within history. It reads as a story shaped by a deep gaze toward Russian literature and the feeling of travel.

It re-illuminates the Sakhalin landscape seen by Chekhov through a contemporary narrative.