Okada: 18 books

The words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates...

From the writer of "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day" and "The Anthem of the Heart" comes the next expressive tale of the fight against one's own demons. Mari Okada grew up in rural Chichibu, a truant for most of her adolescent life. She observed school life from afar,...

In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted...

Three shady thugs show up in Nekonaki, and they're taking over the town one rough-and-tumble tom at a time! To top it all off, as Ryuusei and the crew sharpen their claws for the next brawl, they get an unexpected visit from Taiga's exiled brother--the furmidable fighter Raiga!

The authors explain the rewarding results from the interdisciplinary collaboration between an environmental study group working on coastal ecosystems and effects of oil spills and applied mathematicians modelling wave motion on sandy beaches. By using the unified Navier-Stokes equations with a Bingham...

The ultimate cat showdown escalates until the Nekonaki felines find themselves embroiled in the power struggle. As Ryuusei and the gang attempt to tackle the root of the issue, Madara and Hazuki's true motives are questioned...Just what could be the reason for this chaos?

Thanks to Madara's scheme, Ryuusei is trapped in a warehouse on the outskirts of town...filled to the brim with his kitty comrades! Will he be able to claw his way out of this catastrophe?!

Protecting your turf, keeping other guys from pawing at your girl, showing everyone who's boss...it's all in a day's work when you're a street thug-er, a street cat!

All hell breaks loose for Ryuusei and Taiga when the Goblin Cat Tails' top cat shows up to the party, but there's something else about the calico boss that's got Ryuusei's tongue! With rumors of another uninvited rival going around, it'll take more than strong jellybean toes for the Nekonaki cats to protect their fish!

"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment...

1 WORD. 3 LETTERS. RHYMES WITH “VEX.”When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more…adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and...

Two brilliant, multi-layered stories from the winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing. On the eve of the Iraq War, a man and a woman meet in a nightclub in Tokyo. They go to a love hotel, and spend the next five...

  These lecture notes provide a tutorial review of non-Abelian discrete groups and show some applications to issues in physics where discrete symmetries constitute an important principle for model building in particle physics.  While Abelian discrete symmetries are often imposed in order...