Japanese Biography

Errett Lujan served during World War II with the U.S. Army 200th/515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) Regiment in the Philippines, the largest regiment on the islands when the Japanese invaded just hours after Pearl Harbor. The regiment was credited as both the first and the last to fire on the enemy before surrendering. Lujan survived the invasion, the Bataan Death March and more than three years in POW camps. After the war, he said little to his family about his harrowing experiences.

世界35万部突破のベストセラー！ビル・ゲイツ（世界最大の慈善基金団体 ビル&メリンダ・ゲイツ財団 創設者、デズモンド・ツツ（ノーベル平和賞受賞者、反アパルトヘイト・人

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すべての新しい達成には初めに熱狂が、それも人知れない孤独な熱狂が必ずある。「癒着に染まれ」「野心なんか豚に食われろ」「一撃必殺のキラーカードをつかめ」「人たらしになるな。『人さらい』になれ」「結果が出ない努力に意味はない」など

「燃えない街をつくりたい」――原宿、六本木、お台場。あの街の舞台裏に、この男あり。ラフォーレ原宿、アークヒルズ、六本木ヒルズ、ビーナスフォート――

1992年に千葉県内で起きた身も凍る惨殺劇。幼い子供から大人の男性まで一家4人が殺害。逮捕されたのは19歳の少年だった。4人の命を奪った主犯の少年が19歳だったことから世間は揺れた。そして少年19歳に下された判決は死刑。

As one of six children of British medical missionaries, John Hoyte grew up in China till age 13. During World War ll, he and his siblings, separated from their parents, were interned by the Japanese for nearly four years. In his 20s, he led a British expedition over the Alps with an elephant to investigate which way Hannibal and his army of 30,000 men and 37 elephants had taken in 218 BC. Later, he founded a start-up corporation in Silicon Valley and was an inventor and entrepreneur. With each surprising twist and turn of his journey, John has built a fulfilling life, infused with purpose and creativity.

The Block Manager is the gripping memoir of Janet, an American-born child of Japanese immigrants. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Janet's life in California was uprooted when thousands of Japanese Americans on the West Coast - including Janet's family - were forced into internment camps. Because of her brilliant command of English and Japanese, she was assigned the job of block manager. Janet was shuffled between three camps, got married, and had a child while the war raged on.

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

Arthur Hart-Synnot, a third-generation British officer, was sent to Japan in 1904 to learn the language of Britain's newest ally. Masa Suzuki, a beautiful Japanese woman scorned because of an early divorce, worked at the Tokyo Officers' Club. The two fell immediately in love and conceived a son before Arthur was whisked away by the military during World War I. Though Arthur would only see Masa little, he supported his Japanese family and kept alive the hope that he and Masa could live together blissfully.

Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a prisoner, he escaped twice, first from Changi and later from the infamous Sandakan POW camp in Borneo. After paddling a dugout canoe across open sea, he fought for two years with American-led Filipino guerrillas, his exploits so audacious the Japanese put a price on his head.

こんなに、ほんとに読んだのね。美味しいお茶とおやつ、かたわらには猫......今日もゆるゆるページをひらく。「読書と暮らし」のあれこれを軽やかにつづった話題のエッセイ集が待望の文庫化。新章「それからの日々」も収録した完全版！

In April of 1942, author Julien Goodman, MD was working as a member of the US Army Medical Corps at General Hospital Number One in Bataan when the hospital fell into the hands of the Japanese. M.D.P.O.W. is a description of Dr. Goodman's experiences as a prisoner of war. During his 42-month ordeal, he not only witnessed the horrendous effects of war, but he also experienced them.

棋士生活三〇年、ある日突然襲ってきた病魔

「ふざけんな、ふざけんな、みんないい思いしやがって」
藤井聡太ブームに沸く将棋界。そのウラで羽生世代の棋士が脳の病と闘っていた。

Gaman is a word that means strength in Japanese within the silence there is no yellow peril only the courage to be. Kenichi Yabusaki (Ken) was born a prisoner of war in an American concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent, primarily on the West Coast, were forced into ten main concentration camps across the continental US with no due process.

ベストセラー作家にして、100年つづく企業(カンパニー)を創ったベンチャー起業家、菊池寛。彼を支え、そして彼に支えられた仲間(カンパニー)たちとの友情、そして別離……。

芸人コンビ「かもめんたる」として活動する岩崎う大が、その半生を綴った初の自伝的エッセイ。そしてそれは、2000年代のお笑いシーンを当事者の視点で捉えた貴重な記録でもある。

「テレビの裏でうごめく仕事」　テレビ局員が映しだす、業界の栄枯盛衰――枕営業ってありますか？　今、テレビ業界の闇、そしてテレビプロデューサーの裏の顔が世間の注目を集めている。私は20余年にわたりテレビ局に勤務してきた。どこからどこまでが「表の顔」で、どこからどこまでが「裏の顔」なのかももはや判然としない。

■シリコンバレーの奇跡　1999年、若き異端児マスクが始めた会社X.comと天才ティール＆レヴチンが始めたコンフィニティは数奇にも、シリコンバレーのとある建物で隣り合って入居していた。

After Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes. The government was afraid that because they looked like “the enemy,” they might be spies. One American, librarian Clara Breed, was heartbroken and outraged. As the San Diego Public Library’s Children’s Librarian, Miss Breed was close to many of the children who were evacuated. She went to the train station the day they left, handing out postcards and telling them to send her letters.