Japanese Biography

Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "the Rock," the daily struggles to tend the sick, the wounded, and the dying, during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Once captive, the doctors and corpsmen waged a desperate war against disease and starvation for nearly three and a half years, amid an enemy who viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the four POWs tried to function as a family.

Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of the family's struggle to endure in these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice.

著者の中野孝次が47歳のとき、横浜の洋光台に家を建てて、都内から移り住んだ際、義妹からお祝いにともらったのが柴犬のハラスだった。最初は運動不足解消のための散歩用という軽い気持ちだったのだが、その愛らしさに、子どものいない夫妻の生活はハラスを中心に回るようになっていった。ともに過ごした13年の間に大事件が起こる。志賀高原のスキー場に行ったとき、行き違いからハラスが行方不明になってしまった必死に捜索する4日間の夫妻の深い困惑と苦悩は読者の胸を打つ。その後の近所の紀州犬に腹を噛まれて重傷を負った話や、悪性腫瘍にかかって衰弱していきやがて死を迎えるまでの記録も、ハラスとの深い心の絆を感じさせる。 中野は、「私の半生において、愛という感情をこれほどまでに無拘束に全面的に注いだ相手はいない」とまで書き、庭に作った墓の前では、「私たちの40代から50代にかけての13年間がここに葬られた」と呟く。(C)wis

帝国ホテル・大成建設を設立した「大冒険的商人」に学ぶ 混迷の時代を見通す洞察力と覚悟 時代を先見した事業展開により一代で財を築き、勇猛果敢に時代を生き抜いた大倉喜八郎。持ち前の起業家精神で、乾物屋での丁稚を振り出しに、近代産業の礎となる数々の事業を立ち上げる。創立・経営に携わった企業には、大成建設、現在のサッポロビール、帝国ホテル、日清オイリオ、ニッピ、リーガルコーポレーション、東京製綱など200社以上ともいわれている。 民間人で初の欧米視察に赴き、渋沢栄一らと日本初の会社組織による建設業法人を設立するなど、生涯前例のないことに挑み続けた、自身の奮闘をあますところなく語ったのが本書である。

ポップソングみたいな坊さん生活を著者自ら朗読!『ボクは坊さん』(ミシマ社刊行、ISBN:978-4903908168)、著者でもあり、四国八十八ヶ所霊場第五十七番札所、栄福寺の住職の白川密成さん自らの著者朗読。400分を超える長丁場を独特の優しい口調で朗読しました。(原著は糸井重里編集長の人気サイト『ほぼ日刊イトイ新聞』において、「坊さん――57番札所24歳住職7転8起の日々――」の連載を開始し2008年まで231回の文章を寄稿したものをもとに編集されています) 24歳、突然、住職になった。ミッセイさんが感じた「坊さんという仕事」「悩む坊さん」「これからの宗教を考える」「生と死 」を構えることなく話しています。20代、30代の方に気軽に聞いて欲しい作品です。

主婦売春で名高い東京・大塚のホテトルに集う人妻たち50人を180日間かけて自ら体験取材。『裏本時代』で名をはせた風俗ルポルタージュの第一人者本橋信宏が、描く渾身の作。消費社会の極北を映し出す異色のノンフィクション。 亜由美25歳。「いまもドアの前に立つとき、緊張するわよ。でもね、こういうお仕事は緊張感がなければだめでしょう」 ※本商品は「何が彼女をそうさせたか」(バジリコ刊 本橋信宏著 ISBN:978-4-901784-93-1 1,575円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。(C)Nobuhiro Motohashi

「長い間、私はお茶にうるさいほうだと自認していたが、それがうぬぼれだったことを中村邸で思い知らされている。」「小粒の梅干しにくっきりと紫の紫蘇の葉がまつわりついて白い陶器の皿に映え、一幅の画かと見まがうほど」･･･一杯のお茶が、供じた人のひととなりまでをも語ることもある。日本の心Omotenasiの真髄がここに。

On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her family and freedom, her country and conscience, and her son and daughter. She was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants and the wife of a Japanese American man. On this war-torn morning, she was also a mother desperate to keep her young mixed-race son from being sent to a US concentration camp.

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

北海道を震撼させた謎の〝怪物ヒグマ〟の正体とは藤本さんは私の釣友達で昔から羆のことは追いかけていた。そしてついにこんな本まで。これは読むべし。――夢枕獏（作家）2019年夏、北海道東部で、牛を次々と襲う謎のヒグマが確認された。

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.

「悲劇的なもの」への憧憬と渇仰。それは三島由紀夫にとって存在の深部から湧出する抑えがたい欲動であった。自己を衝き動かす「前意味論的欲動」は、彼の文学を研ぎ澄ませ昇華させると同時に

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.

私の毎日はいたって平凡だ。仕事をして、料理を作る。市場で買った旬の苺でサラダを作ったり、暖房が壊れた寒い日には、キムチ鍋を囲んだり。眠れない夜には、茹でただけの栗を食べながら窓辺で夜空を見上

伝説の初代ウルトラマンのスーツアクター、古谷敏の初めての回想録。スペシウム光線やファイティングポーズの由来など全ウルトラマンの原型を作り上げた１年間の真実を語り尽くす！

Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to Ojichan’s (grandfather’s) stories for the thousandth time, Obaachan was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather’s attempts to teach her the language.