Japanese Women

A Izumi, trentacinquenne separata che ogni sera alla stessa ora rientra dal suo lavoro part-time, quando vede una ragazza pronta a lanciarsi sui binari. Chiyoko, così si chiama la ragazza, ha sul viso l’aria apatica di chi non ha ormai alcun rimpianto, eppure esercita un’inspiegabile attrazione su Izumi. A bordo di un vecchio pulmino Volkswagen, Izumi decide perciò di raggiungere insieme a lei un posto che ha la fama di possedere il cielo e le stelle più belli di tutto il Giappone.

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.

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.

ハーバード大学医学部准教授による現代社会への処方箋　恐れず変化の種をまくために。

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.

アイダホの山奥で育ったタラ。狂信的なモルモン教原理主義者の父の方針で、学校へも通わせてもらえず、病院に行くのも禁じられていた。兄からは虐待も受けていた。

オトコの願望　オンナの本音――「真面目型」と「浮気型」で繁殖戦略はここまで違う！ギャンブルにのめり込む男がモテるのはなぜ？

Naomi Osaka grew up in Japan and the US, with one foot in each place. But wherever she was, she loved to play tennis—and she worked hard at it too, always practicing and improving. Many people doubted that she would make it as a professional player, but she persisted and showed the world that she is a champion. Her talent on the court and her activism for racial justice and mental health causes off it have made Naomi an inspiration to fans everywhere.

Poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.

あなたも一歩、踏み出す勇気を。

震災を契機に自衛官を夢見た少女は、入隊後、絶望を味わった。訓練中の性暴力を報告するも自衛隊は黙殺。そして彼女は実名・顔出しでメディアに訴えることを決意したが…

身体性に結び付けられた「女らしさ」ゆえにケアを担わされてきた女性たちは、自身の経験を語る言葉を奪われ、言葉を発したとしても傾聴に値しないお喋りとして扱われてきた。

とかく強いストレスがあると、PMS、月経前症候群が起こりやすくなると言われています。

ヒーリングや瞑想は

ますます猛威を振るうコロナウイルスを跳ね返すべく、いち早くワクチンを打ったマリコ。春には娘が大学を卒業し、子育てもひと段落し、介護問題を描いた『小説８０５０』も大ヒット

母になっても、四十になっても、まだ「何者か」になりたいんだ私に期待していたいんだ二児の母、会社をやめ、小説家を目指す。無謀かつ明るい生活。「好書好日」（朝日新聞ブックサイト）の連載、「小説家になりたい人が、なった人に聞いてみた。」が話題のライターが、エッセイストになるまでのお話。

人生の折り返し地点でもう一度「性」を学び直す！暮らしと人間関係をよりよくしたい50代のための「性教育」とは？第一線で活躍する専門家たちによる性の特別授業、始まります！

The house was built when I was nine years old at the place where our old house was torn down, because it was too old to live in. That old house was built about 100 years ago. My ancestors lived at exactly the same spot generation after generation for over 1000 years since my family used to be a landlord of the area. We are here for around 63 generations.

円熟の境地にある芥川賞作家が描く、“もの”を巡る幻想譚のシリーズ短篇。祖先の来し方を探るエッセイのように筆を起こし、何時の間にか、するっと時空を超越し、読者を想像の彼方へと誘って、馥郁たる余韻を残して着地する。
本作の“主役”は、作家が生まれた頃から慣れ親しみ、今も所有している一つの火鉢。日露戦争で中国大陸に出兵した祖父が入手したらしい有田焼の火鉢は、姿形を変えぬまま、およそ百年を生き抜いてきた。火鉢には、江戸時代の旅人たちが描かれていた。現在の山口県防府市で地主の惣領として生まれながら祖父は学問を志して東京へ出て、大学を卒業すると、徒歩で郷里に帰ったという。祖父は、火鉢に描かれた旅人に興趣を覚えたのではないか？　不動の火鉢に、作家は有為転変の来歴を与え、「旅する火鉢」に想いを馳せる。

..But, if you ever tell anybody.... This is a well-known story in Japan. The excitement of a live performance as well as the horror of the original story and the exoticism of Japan has been fully recreated by an experienced staffs of radio dramas. This is part of the audio book series from the publisher of the hit title Rashomon-drama version. I hope you enjoy our presentation. (C)Kotonoha shuppan. The list of our audio books could be found at: http://www.kotonoha.co.jp

A long time ago, when Japan had the feudal system, my family was a landlord of the area. It has come to a complete downfall over the years, but my family still clings to its past glory. For them, to succeed the family is critical. I’m firstborn and have no brother which meant that I was a successor and destined to spend the whole life in my hometown. But, music changed everything. To pursue a career in music, my hometown was too rural, and I had to move out. Back then, I was a college student, and moving to a city meant dropping out of school.