A Spiritual History of Japanese Science Fiction traces scientific imagination, visions of the future, and desires for modernization in Japan from the late Edo and Meiji periods through the postwar era. Crossing literature, thought, and society, it depicts the prehistory and intellectual soil of Japanese SF.

A critical work that searches for the sources of Japanese SF in modern Japan's dreams and anxieties.

Penguin Highway is a novel in which an elementary school boy investigates the mystery of penguins suddenly appearing in a suburban town. Scientific curiosity, feelings like first love, and the strangeness of the world overlap in a summer adventure.

Through a boy's research notes, the town's mystery opens onto the depth of the world.