Richly laced with historical detail, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century Japan.

... Yoshida family , Takeouchi Tsuna , had been imprisoned in one of our northern provinces on a charge of having been in league with the rebels during the civil war of 1878 , and it seemed to me that a taste of prison life might not be so ...

A stunningly dark thriller and a tapestry of noir, Villain is the English-language debut for Shuichi Yoshida, one of Japan’s most acclaimed and accomplished writers.

Tomizō Yoshida. tumor cells to chemicals , by the foregoing procedure , is caused by muta- genic changes in the cells from exposure to an agent such as nitrogen mustard a well - known chemical mutagen - that decreased the drug ...

... Yoshida Daisuke Kenryō . The house of Yoshida served from olden times the daimyō Mõri as teachers of the Yamagaryū 6. Their income was 57 koku , 6 to 7 . 1 2 Published as a kind of preface to the first volume of the Yoshida Shōin zenshū ...

... YOSHIDA'S FEELINGS . A FIRST YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL . HE WAS BORN IN THE DIGITAL AGE , AND HIS FIRST EXPOSURE TO MANGA WORK WAS THROUGH ANALOG . HE'S SURPRISINGLY PERCEPTIVE , AND OFTEN HITS THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD WITH HIS COMMENTS ...

... YOSHIDA'S FEELINGS , DESPITE LITERALLY EVERY- ONE ELSE CATCHING ON . TYPICALLY WALKS AROUND HALF - NAKED . butake EMPLOYEES OF SHIMAKAZE'S MANGA FACTORY Chikaryo TAKESHI MOBU RYOYA MASACHIKA Komaki MAKI NARUKO 45 BOOOM GIMME 45 ...

A luminous exploration of one filmmaker's work by another, an artist's personal journey, a manifesto

The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs.