Japanese Politics

Dreux Richard presents post-Fukushima Japan in three illustrative parts. He follows members of Japan’s Nigerian community, whose struggles with a hostile immigration system lead to the death of a Nigerian immigrant in a Japanese detention center, investigated here for the first time. In Japan’s northernmost city, Richard goes door to door with the region’s youngest census employee, meeting the city’s elderly residents and documenting the stories that comprise the nation’s record-breaking population decline. Finally, he takes us into the offices of energy executives....

The Japanese believe everyone has an ikigai—a reason for being that fills each day with meaning. And in a small village in Japan known as Okinawa, where people live longer than anywhere else in the world, finding your ikigai is the key to a happier, healthier life. But what is ikigai, exactly? It's where your passions, your talents, your values, and your livelihood all align. It's the sweet spot that fuels your days with purpose and joy, the reason you leap out of bed each morning eager to embrace the world.

Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with big dreams and empty pockets. He worked on the railroads, in a cannery, and as a houseboy before settling in Oregon to open a store, raise a large family, and become one of the area's most successful orchardists. But his family's life changed forever on December 7, 1941, when they were forced from their homes into vast inland camps. Although shamed and broken, the Yasui family would yet endure to claim their place as Americans.

なぜこんなに音・におい・相手の表情が“気になってしかたがない”のか?

『反逆の神話』のヒース、渾身の書〔政治・経済・生活を正気に戻すために〕右翼／左翼ではなく、正気／狂気に分断され、真実より「真実っぽさ」が跳梁する現代。過激な論争を助長し合理的な議論を破壊するSNS。

私だけがのけ者にされ、みんなから悪く言われている……。そんな息苦しさを訴える声が多い。そう感じてしまうのはなぜか。また、こうした現象が日本社会で起きやすい背景とは。

国家、貨幣、企業……虚構が他人との協力を可能にし、文明をもたらした！

心理学者にしてノーベル経済学賞受賞者の著者が、直感的「速い思考」と理性的な「遅い思考」という二つのシステムを前提に、人間が判断を行うメカニズムといかに錯覚に基づき行動するかを解き明かす。

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.

On October 24, 1944, more than 200 American soldiers were surrounded by German infantry deep in the Vosges Mountains of Eastern France. When their food, ammunition, and medical supplies ran out, the area's army headquarters turned to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated unit of Japanese American soldiers, to achieve what other units had failed to do: rescue the "lost battalion".

般若心経はわずか300文字足らずの仏教経典で、大乗仏教のコアとなる思想「空（くう）」について記されています。

「般若心経講義」は、仏教の教えをわかりやすく説明し、日々の生活やビジネスでの悩みを解決のヒントになる叡智がつまった作品です。

だれもがぶつかる「真理」や「迷い」について、仏教の教えを朗読で聴いてみませんか。

最高の真理を求めた男たちの熱き闘い！　ソクラテス・デカルト・ニーチェ・サルトル……さらなる高みを目指し、知を闘わせてきた31人の哲学者たちの論が激突。まさに「史上最強」の哲学入門書！

あなたの「懐かしい」は誰かの「武器」になる。人類史上、最も危険で、最も癒され、最も儲かる「エモい」感情の正体。政治やビジネスを動かし、消費を煽る、知られざる力とは。本当に「昔は良かった」のか。

『葉隠』は強く生きるための「実用書」である！「仕事」の極意から「人付き合い」の秘訣、「自己実現」の方法ま で……男として、いかに考え、行動すべきか。

新型コロナウイルス蔓延による1100万都市の完全封鎖。2020年1月25日、封鎖の2日後から、武漢在住の作家・方方(ファンファン)が自身のブログ上で武漢の実情を伝える日記を書き始めた。

From ancient times to the modern era, martial arts has consistently evolved over the centuries and continues to evolve and thrive today. At the turn of the 20th century, martial arts saw perhaps its greatest evolution as many Japanese and Okinawan martial arts masters of the time no longer looked at martial arts as a mere tool of warfare, but instead as systems that have immeasurable mental and physical health benefits.

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