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The Thorn Puller

By: Hiromi Ito

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Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize Caught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive. The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society. Ito has been described as a “shaman of poetry” because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera—part poetry, part prose, part epic—a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the “thorns” of human suffering.

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Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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1737625318

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The Thorn Puller

By: Hiromi Ito

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By: Hiromi Ito

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Constitutional Law in Japan

By: Hiroyuki Hata†,Go Nakagawa†,Takehisa Nakagawa,Hiromi Nishimura,Takayoshi Okada

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Constitutional Law in Japan

By: Hiroyuki Hata†,Go Nakagawa†,Takehisa Nakagawa,Hiromi Nishimura,Takayoshi Okada

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this very useful analysis of constitutional law in Japan provides essential information on the country’s sources of constitutional law, its form of government, and its administrative structure. Lawyers who handle transnational matters will appreciate the clarifications of particular terminology and its application. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes the specific points at which constitutional law affects the interpretation of legal rules and procedure. Thorough coverage by a local expert fully describes the political system, the historical background, the role of treaties, legislation, jurisprudence, and administrative regulations. The discussion of the form and structure of government outlines its legal status, the jurisdiction and workings of the central state organs, the subdivisions of the state, its decentralized authorities, and concepts of citizenship. Special issues include the legal position of aliens, foreign relations, taxing and spending powers, emergency laws, the power of the military, and the constitutional relationship between church and state. Details are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable time-saving tool for both practising and academic jurists. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Japan will welcome this guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative constitutional law.

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371

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403546182

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9789403546186

Dragon Palace

By: Hiromi Kawakami

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Dragon Palace

By: Hiromi Kawakami

“How can a person resist?”—The Paris Review Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny. From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty—in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don’t apply. Meet a shape-shifting con man, a goddess who uses sex to control her followers, an elderly man possessed by a fox spirit, a woman who falls in love with her 400-year-old ancestor, a kitchen god with three faces in a weasel-infested apartment block, moles who provide underground sanctuary for humans who have lost the will to live, a man nurtured through life by his seven extraordinary sisters, and a woman who is handed from husband to husband until she is finally able to return to the sea.

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Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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1737625369

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9781737625360

[Bundle] Jane Porter Best Selection Vol.1

Harlequin comics

By: Jane Porter,Rin Tanaka,Hiromi Kobayashi

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[Bundle] Jane Porter Best Selection Vol.1

Harlequin comics

By: Jane Porter,Rin Tanaka,Hiromi Kobayashi

Harlequin Comics Bundle featuring Jane Porter Best Selection Vol.1! This bundle contains [The Sultan's Bought Bride] and [Not Fit For A King?] [The Sultan's Bought Bride] Amid a swirl of rose petals, the desert sultan solemnly materializes. Nicolette is stunned. With his well-defined face and glittering ethnic garb, he is the most fascinating thing she’s ever laid eyes on! “Welcome to the land of a thousand dreams, Princess Chantal.” The name he calls her in his sweet, low voice brings Nicolette back to reality. That’s right, I’m here posing as my sister, Chantal, his fiancée, to trick him into making our plan work out! Ooh, but can I really take advantage of a man like him? [Not Fit For A King?] No matter how much we look alike, the prince will never love me. Hannah, an American secretary, agrees to switch places with Princess Emmeline, just for two hours. There must be a reason that made her ask me for such a favor. Besides, it’s only for a few hours. But Emmeline doesn’t return for days, and Hannah ends up having to meet King Zale of Raguva, pretending to be the princess!

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Harlequin / SB Creative

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4596373523

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9784596373526

Resilience and Autonomy in Prewar and Wartime Japan

The Internal Governance of Industries (1925-1945)

By: Hiromi Murakami

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Resilience and Autonomy in Prewar and Wartime Japan

The Internal Governance of Industries (1925-1945)

By: Hiromi Murakami

This book illuminates the processes by which industrial manufacturing organizations in Japan conducted collective actions and how, and under what conditions, industries interacted with each other and responded to government interference, particularly during the Great Depression and World War II.

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331

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Lexington Books

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1793649316

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9781793649317

Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions

By: Hiromi Yamakawa,Takenao Yoshizaki

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Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions

By: Hiromi Yamakawa,Takenao Yoshizaki

This book presents the "helical wormlike chain" model – a general model for both flexible and semiflexible polymer chains. It explains how statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories of their solution properties can be developed on the basis of this model. This new second edition has been carefully updated and thoroughly revised. It includes a new chapter covering "Simulation and More on Excluded-Volume Effects", as well as the discussion of new experimental data and the application of the theory to ring polymers. The authors provide analysis of important recent experimental data by the use of their theories for flexible polymers over a wide range of molecular weights, including the oligomer region, and for semiflexible polymers, including biological macromolecules such as DNA. This is all clearly illustrated using a reasonable number of theoretical equations, tables, figures, and computer-aided forms, which support the understanding of the basic theory and help to facilitate its application to experimental data for the polymer molecular characterization.

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Springer

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3662487160

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9783662487167

The Ten Loves of Nishino

By: Hiromi Kawakami

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The Ten Loves of Nishino

By: Hiromi Kawakami

The story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him at one point in their lives. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, ten women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino. Like a modern Decameron, this humorous, sensual, and touching novel by one of Japan’s best-selling and most beloved writers is a powerful and embracing portrait of the human comedy in ten voices. Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. A little like Nishino himself . . . Winner 2020 Pen Translation Prize Praise for The Ten Loves of Nishino “If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love The Ten Loves of Nishino.” —DozoDomo (France) “Agile, inventive fiction.” —Booklist “An intriguing portrayal of romantic attachment.” —The New Yorker “The women in this collection are vibrant, lusty, and clearly the agents of their own love lives . . . . Kawakami's novel treats its feminist themes with a light hand but still slyly lands its points.” —Kirkus Reviews

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143

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Europa Editions

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1609455320

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9781609455323

Killing Kanoko

Wild Grass on the Riverbank

By: Hiromi Itō

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Killing Kanoko

Wild Grass on the Riverbank

By: Hiromi Itō

I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko who bites off my nipples. A landmark dual collection by one of the most important contemporary Japanese poets, in a "generous and beautifully rendered" translation. Now widely taught as a feminist classic, KILLING KANOKO is a defiantly autobiographical exploration of sexuality, community, and postpartum depression. Featuring some of her most famous poems, Ito writes in a defiantly autobiographical manner: Kanoko is Ito's oldest child. WILD GRASS ON THE RIVERBANK won the 2006 Takami Jun Prize, which is awarded each year to an outstanding, innovative book of poetry. Set simultaneously in the California desert and Japan, this collection focuses on migration, nature, and movement. At once grotesque and vertiginous, Itō interweaves mythologies, language, sexuality, and place into a genre-busting narrative of what it is to be a migrant. "Japan's most prominent feminist poet" - Poetry Foundation

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Inpress Books - Ipsuk

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1911284428

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9781911284420

Wild Grass on the Riverbank

By: Hiromi Itō

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Wild Grass on the Riverbank

By: Hiromi Itō

These poets will plunge you into dreamlike landscapes of volatile proliferation: shape-shifting mothers, living father-corpses, and pervasively odd vegetation

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Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

By: Hiromi Ito

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Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

By: Hiromi Ito

A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, and can be read as a companion piece to Ito's beloved poem "Wild Grass on the Riverbank". Rather than the vertiginously violent poetics of the latter, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits serves as what we might call a phyto-autobiography: a recounting of one's life through the logic of flora. Ito's graciously potent and philosophical prose examines immigration, language, gender, care work, and death, all through her close (indeed, at times obsessive) attention to plant life.

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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino

By: Hiromi Kawakami

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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino

By: Hiromi Kawakami

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a classmate, another the best friend of Nishino's latest conquest. Some are entranced by Nishino, others care more for their freedom, their children (or their cats). As we come to learn of the torments, desires and delights of each woman, a portrait emerges of a complicated man whose great capacity for love may well be the cause of his downfall.

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Granta Books

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1846277027

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9781846277023

Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

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Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. Perfectly constructed, funny, and moving, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. This edition contains the bonus story, 'Parade', which imagines an ordinary day in the lives of this unusual couple.

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Portobello Books

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1846275091

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9781846275098

People From My Neighbourhood

By: Hiromi Kawakami

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People From My Neighbourhood

By: Hiromi Kawakami

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep it safe, you never know when you might need it. In Kawakami's super short 'palm of the hand' stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's house for thirty years; an apartment block leaves its visitors with strange afflictions, from fast-growing beards to an ability to channel the voices of the dead; an old man has two shadows, one docile, the other rebellious; two girls named Yoko are locked in a bitter rivalry to the death. Small but great, you'll find great delight spending time with the people in this neighbourhood.

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The Thorn Puller

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Constitutional Law in Japan

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Dragon Palace

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[Bundle] Jane Porter Best Selection Vol.1

[Bundle] Jane Porter Best Selection Vol.1

Resilience and Autonomy in Prewar and Wartime Japan

Resilience and Autonomy in Prewar and Wartime Japan

Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions

Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions

The Ten Loves of Nishino

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Killing Kanoko

Killing Kanoko

Wild Grass on the Riverbank

Wild Grass on the Riverbank

Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino

The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Strange Weather in Tokyo

People From My Neighbourhood

People From My Neighbourhood

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