Japanese Politics

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Según los japoneses, todos tenemos un motivo para existir, es decir, un ikigai. Algunas personas lo encuentran con más facilidad, y otras aún siguen en su búsqueda. Hay también quienes viven su ikigai pero sin saberlo, y por lo tanto, sin la oportunidad de desarrollarlo en todo su esplendor.

In Special Duty, Richard J. Samuels dissects the fascinating history of the intelligence community in Japan. Looking at the impact of shifts in the strategic environment, technological change, and past failures, he probes the reasons why Japan has endured such a roller-coaster ride when it comes to intelligence gathering and analysis, and concludes that the ups and downs of the past century - combined with growing uncertainties in the regional security environment - have convinced Japanese leaders of the critical importance of striking balance between power and insight.

On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories and memoirs devoted to this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen as negligible.

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.

安倍元首相銃撃事件が起きて以降、メディアを通じて自民党の統一教会汚染問題を追及してきた鈴木エイト氏。果たしてその裏で、政治家や教団とどんな暗闘があったのか。

Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of 41 Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), known as the Tucsonians, who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII. Cherstin Lyon parallels their courage as resisters with that of civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi, well known for his legal battle against curfew and internment, who also resisted the draft. These dual stories highlight the intrinsic relationship between the rights and the obligations of citizenship, particularly salient in times of war.

After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara - all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest - moved to Hiroshima, their mother's ancestral home. Eager to go back to his own land - America - Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. Despite being sent to an internment camp, Harry dutifully volunteered to serve his country. Back in Hiroshima, his brothers, Frank and Pierce, became soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army.

「あの事件」について、著者自身が真実を語る。著者は何と闘い続け、何を思い、周りで何が起こっていたのか。普通の人、普通の国会議員が味わうことのない、数奇な人生である「河井あんり」の生き様が詰まった一冊。

「ドイツを見習え」論、グレタ・トゥーンベリ、1.5℃目標、『人新世の「資本論」』、グリーンピース（環境NGO）、坂本龍一、コムアイ（元水曜日のカンパネラ）、EU……

歩けるうちは、人は死なない長生きしたくないという高齢者が増えている。不健康寿命が延び、ムダな延命治療によるつらく苦しい最期は恐ろしいと感じるからだ。著者は2000人以上を看取った元外科医の緩和ケア医。

〈お金が〉"足りない"よりも"ありすぎる"方が人は壊れる!裕福で幸せそうに見える家族ほど、闇が深い。お金があれば幸せになれる――そう信じる人は多い。だが、本当にそうだろうか。加害者家族支援の第一人者である著者が見てきたのは、むしろ「お金によって壊れていく家族」だった。

「慰謝料はいくら？」「遺産はどう分ける？」「事故の示談金は？」――その"相場"、あなたは知っていますか？人生のトラブルには、知らないと損する"お金の現実"がついて回ります。いざというときに慌てないために、今こそ備えておきたい法律とお金の虎の巻。

バチは誰にも当たらない。我々はもう気づいている――子供や孫が、自分や先祖を供養する必要などない、と。平均寿命が延伸し、多くの日本人が天寿を全うする。

ワシントン・ポスト紙ブック・オブ・ザ・イヤー受賞の話題書がついに日本上陸！”遊び場でのいじめから職場でのセクハラまで、善良な人がとんでもないことをする場合がしばしばあります。それはなぜでしょう？

「事故調査報告書・別冊」の片隅に記された「異常外力着力点」の存在――数々の証拠から「後部圧力隔壁説」の矛盾を読み解き、驚くべき墜落原因が明らかになる。第一人者による、告発のノンフィクション。

みんなが信じている情報に価値はない――「人口減少は問題じゃない」「日本は世界一の対外資産国」「米国崩壊論がやまない理由」――

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More than 100 US Army and Navy nurses were stationed in Guam and the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of World War II to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than 70 army nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured, only to endure more than three years in prison camps.

Japanese folklore is abundant with tales of ghostly creatures and the supernatural. In Haunted Japan, author Catrien Ross reveals the legends that have been passed down for generations and continue to terrify us today.