A wartime police novel set in Muroran, Hokkaido, near the end of the war, following military secrets and serial poisonings. An Ainu special police officer is caught between state power and personal justice.

In the darkness before defeat, the novel asks who the true traitor is.

A short horror mystery about girls investigating a school ghost story. The closed memory of school is tied to an apparition that appears on rainy days.

A school ghost story begins to touch the children’s pain.

A critical history tracing the lineage of science-fictional imagination in modern Japan from the late Edo and Meiji periods through the postwar era. It crosses literature, thought, and views of science.

It rereads modern Japanese imagination as a genealogy of science fiction.