Japanese Biography

As a young man, Norman Bethune served as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War. The experience left him with the dedication and passion to lead crusades to find a cure for tuberculosis, to introduce universal health care in Canada, and to introduce mobile blood transfusion units to save wounded soldier's lives on the battlefield. He served with the Republican armies during the Spanish Civil War and in China where he died of blood poisoning in 1939 Because of his left wing politics, Bethune was ignored for decades in his home country. His childhood home in Gravenhurst, Ontario sees large...

離婚して名前まで変えて挑んだ潜入ルポの傑作！週刊文春連載時から話題沸騰、前代未聞の潜入ルポ。ユニクロ愛用者必読の“危険本”がついに文庫化！

Errett Lujan served during World War II with the U.S. Army 200th/515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) Regiment in the Philippines, the largest regiment on the islands when the Japanese invaded just hours after Pearl Harbor. The regiment was credited as both the first and the last to fire on the enemy before surrendering. Lujan survived the invasion, the Bataan Death March and more than three years in POW camps. After the war, he said little to his family about his harrowing experiences.

全国新聞初の外国人記者として東京の裏社会を駆け巡った著者。日本人顔負けの諺を放ち、日本社会に迎合しながらもアウトサイダーの立場を逆手に取る。大胆不敵で無鉄砲、茶目っ気たっぷりに色目も惜しまず独自の捜査スタイルを確立していった様を描く。世間を震撼させた愛犬家連続殺人事件の真相から歌舞伎町に潜む人身売買の闇まで、スクープを追い続けた12年。その果てに彼が手にしたのは、日本最大の暴力団組織と米国FBIが絡みあったスキャンダルだった･･････。 「記事を消すか、お前が消されるか」山口組分裂のきっかけともなった衝撃の事実を掴んだ記者は、人生最大の決断を迫られる。 日本の大手出版社が復讐を恐れ、出版を見送った禁断の暴露本が遂に日本解禁！ Audibleで臨場感そのままにこのスリルを体験。

今年一番の話題作！　マスク自身が語り尽した初の公式伝記。世界的ベストセラー『スティーブ・ジョブズ』評伝作家だからこそ描けた。

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.

映画の試写の帰り銀座の「資生堂パーラー」に立ち寄り、はじめて洋食を口にした40年前を憶い出す・・・　浅草「藪」八日市「招福楼」渋谷「東急デパート」室町「はやし」—ただ美味しいだけでは駄目である。池波正太郎の美学にかなったダンディな店々。行きたくなるが、遠くにありて思うべきかもしれない夢の様な情景。

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.

もう人間関係、世代間ギャップ、依存症で悩まない！　脳科学者が脳卒中に学んだこと。

The Brave Japanese is the autobiographical account of an Australian who fought against the Japanese in the desperate struggle to save Malaysia. Ken Harrison’s experiences as a prisoner of war take the listener to the work camps of Singapore, to Thailand “Death Railway” and to the dockyards of Nagasaki. His journey culminates in a visit to the bomb-devastated Hiroshima long before the arrival of the occupation forces.

大宅賞、講談社ノンフィクション賞、ダブル受賞に輝いた感動ノンフィクション!敗戦から12年目に遺族が手にした6通の遺書。ソ連軍に捕われ、極寒と飢餓と重労働のシベリア抑留中に死んだ男のその遺書は

《この世代の世代論は、ノスタルジーか残酷物語のどちらかである。そうではない本を書くことが本書の目的だが、そうなっただろうか。》――速水健朗(本書「あとがき」より)

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.

「コップに三分の一くらい注いで、飲んじゃ入れ、飲んじゃ入れして飲むのが、ビールの本当にうまい飲み方なんですよ。」ナミナミと部下に注いでもらうのではなくて。ー衣食住、ヨメさんの扱い方まで、半世紀をこえて「男」として生きた人間の美学。親父の小言を聞きたくなったときにもおすすめです。

Russko-yaponskaya voyna: Buduchi voennym korrespondentom na ehtoy voyne. Krasnov prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie v boyah. Pered nami zahvatyvayushchee povestvovanie o geroizme nashih soldat v bitvah s protivnikom, prevoskhodyashchim russkih i chislom i osnashcheniem. Na vnutrennem fronte: Razval armii i fronta posle fevralya 1917 goda v sledstvie znamenitogo Prikaza N1 o soldatskih komitetah. Polnyy haos v voyskah i torzhestvo hamstva.

■シリコンバレーの奇跡　1999年、若き異端児マスクが始めた会社X.comと天才ティール＆レヴチンが始めたコンフィニティは数奇にも、シリコンバレーのとある建物で隣り合って入居していた。

墜落現場の特定と救助はなぜ遅れたのか。目撃された戦闘機の追尾と赤い物体。仲間を失った元客室乗務員が執念で解き明かす渾身のノンフィクション。事故ではなく事件なのか？

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.

その日、僕は出家した、彼女と社会を捨てて――。道元が開いた曹洞宗の本山・永平寺。ひとたび山門を潜れば、そこは娑婆とは別世界。東司（トイレ）にも行鉢（食事）にも厳格な作法がある。新入りは、古参僧侶に罵倒され、規矩を徹底的に叩き込まれる。

スパイ取材の第一人者である山田敏弘（国際ジャーナリスト）が構成として参画。スパイ業界最強のタッグが放つ「スパイ本」の決定版！！