Non-fiction
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Book Spiritual Wellness Liberal Arts LifestyleThe Practice of Not Thinking
Tips on how to take a vacation from your worries from a popular Buddhist monk, Ryunosuke Koike. Koike instructs on practices that put our senses to good use—release your frustrations and anxieties through practice, and say goodbye to overthinking. Including fiery debate with brain researcher Yuji Ikegaya. A world-wide best seller—over 1.2 million copies in 7 countries.
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Book Non-fiction Liberal Arts Literature HistoryTales of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
Tokyo, 1964—this is the hotly exciting drama of those who cheered in the shadows of the miraculous games. As the next games approach, this work will have you relive the daring bravery and look toward the future with heart-palpitating anticipation. Fully stocked with hints on how Japan is making progress.
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Book Non-fiction LiteratureThe Most-sold Medicine in the World (Sekai de Ichiban Ureteiru Kusuri)
Statin—a medicine fighting hyperlipidaemia, taken by an estimated 400 million people worldwide. This modern medicine was discovered by a single, Japanese researcher. This is the fascinating and critical biography of a man who should be praised; a man celebrated around the world and winner of prestigious medical awards time and time again.
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Book Wellness LifestyleBe Stronger Than a Worrywart (Nayamu Hito hodo Tsuyokunaru)
Not suited for your work, no friends, always saying the wrong thing to the person of your dreams—here’s some advice for how to approach these worries and more. A book to untangle your worries, driving home the message that worrying isn’t a bad thing, you can use it!
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Book Non-fiction Liberal Arts Culture Literature Japanese Guides History BiographiesThe Great Kanto Earthquake & the Hearts of the People
Six months after the horrific earthquake of Eastern Japan—a book recording 185 days of the Emperor and Empress, who continued to meet the hearts of disaster victims. Full of deeply considerate words from Their Majesties, and the messages that carried the hopes and gratitude from their people.
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Book Non-fiction Culture Literature Japanese GuidesFISH and YAKUZA
Through rigorous investigative work at Tokyo’s infamous Tsukiji fish market, author Tomohiko Suzuki personally witnessed illicitly poached abalone. In this work, Suzuki travels from Hokkaido to Kyushu and all the way to Taiwan and Hong Kong in search of crab, sea cucumber, and eel poaching in the underbelly of the modern yakuza gangster scene.
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Book Cleaning LifestyleThe French Way: Cleaning Without Tossing
Author Yoko Yonezawa divulges the secrets to cleaning she learned while living abroad in Paris. Paris madams teach the Parisian way to living “neatly fashionable despite having a lot of things.” Adorable illustrations depict Yoko’s journey in transitioning to cleaning the French way after returning to her home in Japan.
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Book Non-fiction Liberal Arts Literature History BiographiesThe Traveling Emperor
According to both Imperial Household Agency conferences and journalist documentation, their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan covered a distance that would wrap around the globe 15½ times during their 2018 travels. Here, their numerous visits to each prefecture are analyzed and episodes from their journey recall both their personalities and accomplishments during their reign in the Heisei period.
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Book Children Non-fiction Teens LiteratureThank You Wasabi-chan!
In 2013, a three-week-old kitten was rescued from a vicious crow attack. Brought back from the brink of death but unable to eat on her own, she was given milk every two hours by her adoptive family with the aid of a catheter. This is the story of the brief but shining life of a kitten that inspired the love of thousands of well-wishers.
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Book Non-fiction Liberal Arts Literature History BiographiesOne in 1.3 Billion: The Man Who Won the Chinese Throne after the Greatest Power Struggle in the World
Based on his personal, on-the-ground reporting from Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai, and elsewhere, author Kenji Minemura offers up a behind-the-scenes account of recent U.S.-China relations, as well as of the inside politics that brought Xi Jinping to power over the most populous country in the world.
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Book Non-fiction Literature BiographiesAkio Toyoda’s Favorite Test Driver
This book traces the teacher-pupil relationship that developed between Hiromu Naruse, a test driver for the Toyota Motor Company, who spent many years on the front lines of new car development for the automaker, and Akio Toyoda, the company’s current president and CEO who is the grandson of its founder, Kiichirō Toyoda.