Japanese Biography

Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? What does it mean to be a family? And how do we belong to larger ecosystems?

「新宿鮫」シリーズで知られるベストセラー作家の大沢在昌さん。デビュー以来、10年以上もヒット作に恵まれず、苦悩の日々を送りました。大沢さんが作家をめざしたきっかけとは?ハードボイルドというジャンルが女性に受け入れられにくく、誤解されやすいのはなぜか?そして、大沢さんが考える「新しいハードボイルド小説」とは?「NHKラジオ深夜便」(2012年7月15日放送)を再編集してオーディオブック化しました。聞き手:柴田祐規子アナウンサー

人間は堕落する。それを防ぐことはできないし、防ぐことによって人を救うことはできない。人間は生き、人間は堕ちる。そのこと以外の中に人間を救う便利な近道はない。戦争に負けたから堕ちるのではないのだ。人間だから堕ちるのであり、生きているから堕ちるだけだ。人は正しく堕ちる道を堕ちきることによって、自分自身を発見し、救わなければならない。 戦後発表され、絶大な支持を集めた安吾の「堕落論」 “堕ちることにより救われる”という安吾の思想は、 今の時代にこそ聴いておくべき書なのかもしれない! “堕落しろ”とは、まさに呪縛からの“解放”にほかならない!

「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

Growing up, Wat Misaka wasn’t the tallest kid on the basketball court, but he was fast and he loved the game! In his Japanese American basketball league, Wat dribbled with speed and shared the ball as much as he scored. Encouraged by his father to always do his best, Wat applied this mindset to every challenge in his life. As Wat spent more time on the court, his passion for the game grew. He played in college at the University of Utah during WWII, a time when many Japanese Americans were stripped of their freedoms and incarcerated by the US government.

「自分探し」なんてムダなこと。「本当の自分」を探すよりも、「本物の自信」を育てたほうがいい。脳、人生、医療、死、情報、仕事など、あらゆるテーマについて、頭の中にある「壁」を超えたときに、

In 2008, the author/narrator embarks on a poignant journey to Minidoka, one of the 10 former US concentration camps authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, where tens of thousands of American men, women, and children were incarcerated solely because of their race.

武田鉄矢の人生はジェットコースターのように山あり谷あり。そして、自分でもいまだ原因がわからずじまいの「しくじりの謎」が数多くある。

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.

ベストセラー作家にして、100年つづく企業(カンパニー)を創ったベンチャー起業家、菊池寛。彼を支え、そして彼に支えられた仲間(カンパニー)たちとの友情、そして別離……。

職場での人間関係に悩んでいる、恋愛がうまくいかない、体力がもたなくなった……そんな日々のお悩みにYOUが寄り添います。

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.

In the late 19th century, after Japan was restored to imperial rule, the samurais were no longer the seat of power. The families who were impacted by this shift lost wealth and power. Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was the daughter of one such samurai, and had begun her life on a track to become a Buddhist priestess. But as the family lost their position in society, her path changed, and she was eventually sent to the United States to be in an arranged marriage to an American man. A Daughter of the Samurai is her personal memoir.

Gaman is a word that means strength in Japanese within the silence there is no yellow peril only the courage to be. Kenichi Yabusaki (Ken) was born a prisoner of war in an American concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent, primarily on the West Coast, were forced into ten main concentration camps across the continental US with no due process.

Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on US-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers.

国益、省益、権謀術数、出世、自己保身……首相退任後、安倍晋三さんが財務省を非難した、ほんとうの理由を徹底的に明らかにする！

自分に自信がない西川きよし師匠から、悪口をエネルギーに突き進む山里亮太、スケールのデカいバカぶりを発揮するピース綾部、恐ろしいほどの執念で紫綬褒章まで行き着いた宮川大助・花子まで……。毒舌を吐き続けても絶対に嫌われない男による「吉本バイブル」、ここに誕生

「手のひらを太陽に」の作詞者でもある戦中派の作者が，自身の風変わりなホップ・ステップ人生を語る．銀座モダンボーイの修業時代，焼け跡からの出発，長かった無名時代，そしてついに登場するアンパンマン――．手塚治虫，永六輔，いずみたく，宮城まり子ら多彩な人びととの交流を横糸に，味わい深い人生模様が織り上げられていく。

こんなに、ほんとに読んだのね。美味しいお茶とおやつ、かたわらには猫......今日もゆるゆるページをひらく。「読書と暮らし」のあれこれを軽やかにつづった話題のエッセイ集が待望の文庫化。新章「それからの日々」も収録した完全版！

『美ST』連載が待望の書籍化！　“効かせ甲斐のあるお年頃”を迎えて改めて考える、美の楽しみ方と向き合い方とは。「どうせ生きるなら、好きな自分で生きていきたい」「誰に遠慮する人生じゃなし、自分のための