Japanese House

Feeling lonely with her husband away on business, Keiko, 34, enjoys a relaxing private swimming lesson. But when she's being held afloat in the water by a classically-beautiful half-Greek girl, is there something inside her that is melting and taking her in a new direction?

“I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami.” —Haruki Murakami From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. Hana...

Personally attached to Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi is a style that invites solace and an unpretentious otherworldliness into the home. It's anything but an embellishing style, fundamentally, yet a mentality. To establish a genuine wabi-sabi climate, one must gradually strip away overabundance and figure out how to be fulfilled living at the same time. Wabi-Sabi Home describes the rich history of this arising pattern in home plans and uncovers endless ways of bringing wabi-sabi components into contemporary residing spaces.

Renowned as FDR's favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. But the men of the Houston fought back with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, willpower, and the undying faith that their country would prevail.

３０代のダメ男ベンと、男の子ロボット・タングの「ぽんこつコンビ」が帰ってきた！ベンに娘が生まれお兄ちゃんになろうと奮闘するタングの可愛さ満載。心がじわっとあったかくなる家族の物語。

In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds. October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is...

From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. . . . Each of the buildings...

Where to Start! We need to heal our relationship with stuff and our obsession with buying and hoarding possessions to greater and lesser extremes. People continue to fill their homes and storage units with possessions that they don’t have any real use for and yet continue to shop and get themselves into severe debt, leading to a miserable and unfulfilled life. The key to living a peaceful and sane life is to have; a loving relationship with ourselves, our living space, the environment and the possessions we bring into those three spaces.

March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know...

＼4児（三つ子＋1児）の母の説得力！／＼元小学校の先生のわかりやすさ！／フォロワー21万人の人気整理収納アドバイザー優秀講師（700人中の3人／2023年度）が伝授

Yutaka Tanaka, señor feudal de la provincia de Sagami, debe vengar la muerte de su padre, asesinado por una banda de samuráis enmascarados. La investigación del crimen lo arroja a los campos de batalla, a las intrigas cortesanas y sus traiciones. Como un príncipe Hamlet perdido entre los pliegues de un país que no llega a comprender, Yutaka enfrentará la fascinación de los autómatas, las maniobras sentimentales de dama Ashikaga y los secretos del sokushinbutsu.

After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei—first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Nisei—many of them volunteering from behind barbed wire—were selected by the Army for top-secret training, then were rushed to the Pacific theater. Henderson reveals the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific.

時の流れの呪縛から解き放たれたビリー・ピルグリムは、自分の生涯の未来と過去とを往来する、奇妙な時間旅行者になっていた。大富豪の娘と幸福な結婚生活を送り……

From the author of the classic coming-of-age memoir Fresh off the Boat, tragicomic autofiction about how one very messed up and haunted manchild finds love in spite of himself. Hubie lives an exciting life. He hosts a traveling food show, produces it with his two best friends, and tastes the...

A family had an experience and finally lost their child. This true story presents their incredible haunted experience.

「我武者羅」よりも、「１人１人が考える」チームへ――。学歴も人脈もナシ！「野球に力を入れるつもりなら、あなたのような無名な人を呼ばない」とまで言われた無名の監督が、「思考と言語化」で、ゼロから強いチームを作り上げた！

2025年6月13日公開の映画『ドールハウス』公式ノベライズ！
『ウォーターボーイズ』や『スウィングガールズ』で知られる矢口史靖監督が、スリルと謎解きミステリーの面白さを追求し、これまで映画では手掛けたことのない新たなジャンルに挑む。

定年までに「老後資金2000万」があれば幸せに生きられるのか？人生100年時代といわれる今こそ定年後の生き方やお金の常識を見直すとき。

じいさんが死んだ夏のある日、孫の良嗣（よしつぐ）は、初めて家族のルーツに興味を持った。

For one retiree, the past can never be packed away. "Joren Falls" by Laird Barron is one of 9 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire S2: Originals is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-first horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short...