This biography traces the life of Stanley Bennett, an American cell biologist born in Tottori who experienced the Battle of Okinawa and later devoted himself to nurturing young Japanese researchers. Moving through memories of war and exchanges between Japan and the United States, it considers the connections between science and human lives.

Following a scientist deeply connected to Japan, this book portrays exchanges between people and scholarship that endured beyond war.

Set in 1960s Kyoto, this autobiographical essay follows a Zainichi Korean boy as books lead him to confront his own history. Through encounters with writers including Terada Torahiko, Lu Xun, and Frantz Fanon, it quietly portrays family memory and the unsettled question of ethnic belonging.

From a childhood in which books were his only friends, it traces a life shaped and sustained by reading.

The Internationality of Haiku is a collection of essays and criticism tracing how haiku, Japan's concise fixed-form poetry, has been received and spread abroad. Drawing on concrete examples from different countries, it considers how this short poetic form crosses linguistic and cultural boundaries.

Through the history of haiku's reception around the world, the book explores why a brief poetic form can resonate across cultures.