Japanese Government

Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments in the name of science and Japan's wartime chemical and biological warfare research. Author Hal Gold draws upon a wealth of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities.

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.

In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor.

ここまで政治の奥に迫った本はなかった 安倍はいかに首相に返り咲き、戦後の難問に対峙したか？ 病に倒れた第１次政権から５年、安倍晋三は再び自民党総裁選に立つことを決意した。

米国と欧州は自滅した。 日本が強いられる「選択」は？ ロシアの計算によれば、そう遠くないある日、ウクライナ軍はキエフ政権とともに崩壊する。

世界がアベの動きに注目した！ 長期政権に迫る課題と試練。 冷戦終結後、世界は新たなモードに突入する、中国の台頭にどう対処するか？

On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Murakami paints a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere.

In Special Duty, Richard J. Samuels dissects the fascinating history of the intelligence community in Japan. Looking at the impact of shifts in the strategic environment, technological change, and past failures, he probes the reasons why Japan has endured such a roller-coaster ride when it comes to intelligence gathering and analysis, and concludes that the ups and downs of the past century - combined with growing uncertainties in the regional security environment - have convinced Japanese leaders of the critical importance of striking balance between power and insight.

「資本」や「資本主義」という言葉を
使わずに経済を語ったら、
とんでもなく本質がわかるようになった!

「今日」には、これから起こることの萌芽がある。現在を見つめれば、未来の形をつかむことは誰にでもできる。 20年後、あなたは何歳だろうか? ひとつ確実なことがある。それは、人間が必ず歳をとることだ。

私たちはどこにいるのか。そして、どう生きるべきか――。

Some refugees who had fled from Germany, in an attempt to escape Nazi persecution, were rounded up, interned, and later used in a prisoner exchange program between the United States and German governments. The American government also went to great lengths to secure Germans living across Latin America, who they believed posed a tangible threat, should they cross America’s southern border. In spite of a preponderance of evidence affirming the occurrence of these events, the United States government persistently denied it for decades.

日本は急速に貧しくなっています。私はその責任の大半は過去20年に及ぶ日本政府と日銀の政策にあったと確信しています。

学生時代に勉強した日本国憲法を改めて言葉で聴くと、旧かな使い、旧漢字で理解しづらかった文言に命が吹き込まれ はるかに理解しやすい文章に思える。今一度、自国の憲法を再確認していただくにはもってこいのオーディオブックです。

目からウロコ！一気読み必至のアフリカ講義。アフリカと言えば、紛争、貧困、飢餓、感染症……。これらのイメージが間違っているとまでは言いませんが、アフリカの「現在」はそれらだけではありません。

Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Unit 731 and Unit 100, as well as their subsidiary branches, performed human experimentation on the innocents under the leadership of Dr. Ishii Shiro. Although the exact number of victims is unclear since the Japanese destroyed most of the evidence at the end of the war, but it ranged from 3,000-250,000 innocent men, women, and children.

戦後の怪事件にメスを入れた不朽の名作　権力の圧力で真実解明を妨害された怪事件の封印を解いた衝撃の大作。

Kuni offers a unique model for the revitalization of rural and deindustrialized lands and communities—and shares lessons in citizen-led regeneration for all of us, regardless of where we live. “Kuni” is both a reimagining of the Japanese word for nation and an approach to reviving communities. It shows what happens when dedicated people band together and invest their hearts, minds, and souls back into a community, modeling a new way of living that actually works.

２０１０年代後半以降、米中対立が激化するなか、２０２２年２月、ロシアがウクライナに侵攻。世界情勢はますます混迷を極めている。