"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...

半年余り前、かつての上役、豊後森藩下屋敷の高堂用人から呼び出しの書状を受け取っていた小籐次は、今更ながら高堂を訪ねたところ、いきなり上屋敷への同道を求められる。藩士時代にも滅多に足を踏み入れたことのなかった上屋敷。その意向を小籐次は計りかねるが、やがて面前に現れた人物から思いも寄らぬ望みを託される。感涙必至の第十六弾。 Kotouji...

From Mount Fuji to the temples of Kyoto, "Japan Journeys" offers a unique perspective on the country's most famous travel destinations. Art historian Andreas Marks has gathered together approximately two hundred Japanese woodblock prints depicting scenic spots and cultural icons that still delight visitors today. Many of the prints are by masters such as Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Utagawa Kunisada, and currently hang in prestigious galleries...

“日本人の心の故郷”を描き続けた長谷川伸が主宰した小説勉強会「新鷹会」は村上元三、山岡荘八、山手樹一郎、池波正太郎など多くの人気作家を輩出し、今に続く。その一人でもある平岩弓枝の監修による本書は新鷹会作家による十篇を収録。町人から侍、浪人、渡世人まで、江戸の町に自分の居場所を求め、懸命に生きる人々の痛切な心情が胸に響く、傑作時代小説集！ The...

"Set in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands. The Karangalan fmaily and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila."--Jacket.

Inspired by a true story. Jun Shik works for Tatsuo's grandfather's farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, but he has a dream to participate in Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two are in rivalry. But war breaks out and they both are forced to enlist in the army. Tatsuo becomes the head of defense in Jun Shik's unit and he devises a scheme but fails. Jun Shik and Tatsuo are captured by the...

探偵社の調査員・日高健介は同僚の湯村亜木子と結婚し、亜木子の希望で九州・高千穂へ新婚旅行に出かけた。が、延岡で乗りかえた高千穂線の車内から、亜木子が失踪してしまったのだ。東京に戻った日高は、亜木子が関っていた調査の続きを頼まれる。ハネムーンで出雲へ向う途中に夫が失踪したケースで、日高は依頼人の君原由美子とともに出雲への旅を辿るため、“出雲１号”に乗り込むが…。 Hidaka...

In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles...