Tetsuo: 16 books

Thirty years ago, Tetsuo Fukuyama was working as a college music instructor and teaching piano to private students. But his depression was becoming so severe he could hardly even play a short piece on the piano, and began entertaining suicidal thoughts. After seeing medical specialists and trying...

Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In Japan and the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan—despite unprecedented economic...

In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor. Nearly twenty thousand people were killed or went missing, and many areas have yet to rebuild. Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond,...

In recent years the narrative surrounding China’s “peaceful rise” has given way to a more ominous story of friction, ambition, and great-power rivalry. As Chinese foreign policy has grown more nationalist and assertive, its intensifying competition with the U.S. has assumed center stage. The...

Explores the Latin American economy and management through the study of Japanese companies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Based on detailed case studies, this volume offers a bird's eye view of foreign investments in Latin America.

What are you truly wishing for? Kazuki Hoshino is still trapped in the cruel game of Kingdom Royale, where players have to fulfill the victory conditions of the roles they are assigned-which nearly always means killing the others. But this time, he has a plan to take charge and break everyone...

When your world comes crashing down around you...who can you turn to? Nothing is more important to Kazuki Hoshino than his normal, everyday life. But his friends are accusing him of committing offenses he doesn't remember, and his closest relationships are crumbling one by one. Soon, the life...

Can you do what it takes to survive? This time, Kazuki and Maria find themselves trapped in a game of deception and betrayal with four other students from their school. Despite being pitted against each other, the two once again work together in an effort to break the Box's hold. But as the...

Can a single wish destroy a Box? Daiya has a goal, and he will stop at nothing to accomplish it-including wielding the Box Crime, Punishment, and the Shadow of Crime, whose power allows him to control others by using their own sins against them. To stop him, Kazuki traps him within the Silver...

"I couldn't care less what happens to me. All I've ever wanted is for you to be happy." The Silver Screen of Broken Wishes was a Box intended to stop Daiya's plan to rule the world-a theater to show him his past and destroy his wish. Unfortunately, Daiya isn't one to go down...

Learning Hiragana and Katakana is a systematic and comprehensive Japanese workbook that is perfect for self-study or use in a classroom setting. Written Japanese combines three different types of characters: the Chinese characters known as kanji, and two Japanese sets of phonetic letters, hiragana...

The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as “coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction” in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation in the coastal seas has been widely accepted and was included in the...

All over the world, open innovation is emerging and requires much more interactions between different actors with different organizational cultures: large firms and SMEs (i.e. industry), universities and research institutions (i.e. academia), as well as national and regional authorities for building...

Lacquer Chemistry and Applications explores the topic of lacquer, the only natural product polymerized by an enzyme that has been used for a coating material in Asian countries for thousands of years. Although the human-lacquer-culture, including cultivation of the lacquer tree, harvesting,...