Japanese House

A certified World Class Manufacturing Instructor (WCM/Lean) shows you how to mindfully turn your home into a place of calm, joy, and purposeful living. “The 3rd Simple Step to Your Perfect Home” is the third book of the 5 Steps series. Ivan Kuznietsov takes us on a cleaning tour of our own houses and apartments, showing us how to clean all rooms for fulfilling their function in the home. He both offers practical guidelines for integrating mindfulness in our lives and addresses underlying issues that contribute to clutter in the first place. So the purpose of this book is not just to ...

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Justaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.

Imagine this: stepping into a room where you instantly felt more at ease, where you felt comfortable and connected to tradition and nature. A room that embraced you with its serene energy, a sanctuary from the noise and chaos of the modern world.

Tokyo-ing! is an apt title for this trio of tales that chime with anyone even slightly interested in Asia’s most dynamic metropolis and its glazing of layers – be they cultural, sexual … or taking-wing exuberant.About Face — An American professor is trophy hunted by a wily student who then boasts of her conquest, sparking a full-blown scandal. Brought to heel in tradition, he fights for his dignity. Sobering Love — A Japanese career woman is obligated to join after-work drinking sessions with her colleagues, leading to alcohol addiction and deteriorating health. There seems to be ...

「我武者羅」よりも、「１人１人が考える」チームへ――。学歴も人脈もナシ！「野球に力を入れるつもりなら、あなたのような無名な人を呼ばない」とまで言われた無名の監督が、「思考と言語化」で、ゼロから強いチームを作り上げた！

In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki​​. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their troubled pasts.

Pentru a reuşi să-ţi ordonezi locuinţa, trebuie să-ţi organizezi acţiunile într-o succesiune corectă, să păstrezi numai obiectele care-ţi sunt cu adevărat dragi şi să faci totul dintr-odată şi repede. După aceea, pentru tot restul vieţii, nu va mai fi nevoie decât să alegi ce să păstrezi şi ce să arunci. Metoda KonMari nu îţi va transforma doar spaţiul de locuit. Vei căpăta mai multă încredere în tine, succesul te va însoţi, vei avea mai multă energie şi te vei simţi mai motivat să duci viaţa pe care ţi-o doreşti.

Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought she and her boyfriend were soulmates. He even took her to a love hotel, where she believed he was going to propose. Instead, he left her after four years. So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in an empty cafe. When she awakens, she’s eager to tell her story to anyone who will listen, and pours her heart out to a curious manager and the sole other customer in the cafe, a monk who trains at a temple nearby.

Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "the Rock," the daily struggles to tend the sick, the wounded, and the dying, during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Once captive, the doctors and corpsmen waged a desperate war against disease and starvation for nearly three and a half years, amid an enemy who viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the four POWs tried to function as a family.

In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a Christmas-time Kyoto moon. Satomi is devoted to her job in Tokyo, but when her boyfriend hints that he is going to propose to her on Christmas Day, she becomes torn between the career in the city that she loves and a quieter life with her boyfriend in the country. What will the magical cats see for her future? Koyuki, meanwhile, works at Satomi’s company.

En Malasia, en los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tras un matrimonio concertado, Parvathi vive sin grandes alicientes en la opulenta mansión de su marido, un hombre mucho mayor que ella que prácticamente la desprecia. Solo gracias a la ayuda de una cocinera llena de sabiduría y a un criado quien la ama en secreto, Parvathi logra seguir adelante. Pero la invasión japonesa del país cambia su vida ya que, tras el saqueo y la ocupación de su propio hogar, Parvathi se ve obligada a convertirse en la geisha y amante del oficial japonés al mando.

じいさんが死んだ夏のある日、孫の良嗣（よしつぐ）は、初めて家族のルーツに興味を持った。

Yutaka Tanaka, señor feudal de la provincia de Sagami, debe vengar la muerte de su padre, asesinado por una banda de samuráis enmascarados. La investigación del crimen lo arroja a los campos de batalla, a las intrigas cortesanas y sus traiciones. Como un príncipe Hamlet perdido entre los pliegues de un país que no llega a comprender, Yutaka enfrentará la fascinación de los autómatas, las maniobras sentimentales de dama Ashikaga y los secretos del sokushinbutsu.

Personally attached to Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi is a style that invites solace and an unpretentious otherworldliness into the home. It's anything but an embellishing style, fundamentally, yet a mentality. To establish a genuine wabi-sabi climate, one must gradually strip away overabundance and figure out how to be fulfilled living at the same time. Wabi-Sabi Home describes the rich history of this arising pattern in home plans and uncovers endless ways of bringing wabi-sabi components into contemporary residing spaces.

A mágica da arrumação se tornou um fenômeno mundial por apresentar uma abordagem inovadora para acabar de vez com a bagunça. Aos 30 anos, a japonesa Marie Kondo virou celebridade internacional, uma espécie de guru quando o assunto é organização. O ponto principal da técnica é o descarte. Para decidir o que manter e o que jogar fora, você deve segurar os itens um a um e perguntar a si mesmo: “Isso me traz alegria?” Você só deve continuar com algo se a resposta for “sim”.

Decluttering your house can seem like a daunting task. It’s hard to know where to begin. Your home is such an important project as you spend so much time there. It becomes a reflection of you. A clean and tidy home means a clean and tidy mind. But most people aren’t equipped with the discarding skills to clear out the clutter, or the design ideas to create that sleek, minimalist yet warm feel for themselves.

Feeling lonely with her husband away on business, Keiko, 34, enjoys a relaxing private swimming lesson. But when she's being held afloat in the water by a classically-beautiful half-Greek girl, is there something inside her that is melting and taking her in a new direction?

How does a man serving in the Imperial Japanese Army feel when he suddenly sees his brother in the uniform of the enemy United States? How does a Japanese mother, surrounded by barbed wire in an American internment camp for enemy aliens, feel when her only son writes: "I am now an American soldier. I must fight and, if necessary, die for my country"? How does a Hawaiian-born youth feel as he lies near death in Hiroshima, a victim of history's first nuclear attack, launched by the United States?

Where to Start! We need to heal our relationship with stuff and our obsession with buying and hoarding possessions to greater and lesser extremes. People continue to fill their homes and storage units with possessions that they don’t have any real use for and yet continue to shop and get themselves into severe debt, leading to a miserable and unfulfilled life. The key to living a peaceful and sane life is to have; a loving relationship with ourselves, our living space, the environment and the possessions we bring into those three spaces.

Japanese Detective Sergeant Tokito Kolihishi has about had all of the dismal death investigations he can stand. One more pushes him too far. He might be from ancient Samurai stock, but it is time to leave the battlefield to others. He obeys his father's summons to America, there to restore to its original beauty, an crumbling, falling down Japanese Temple and open a Steakhouse within. But there is much more than meets the eye. The Temple is carrying some kind of curse. His instinctive nature is to investigate it and stop it. With the help of a lovely Japanese woman, or two, he finds the ...