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Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to...

Mighty Mo: The Extraordinary Story of the USS Missouri She was the last battleship America ever built, and the one on whose deck the Second World War came to its formal end. Laid down in a shipyard racing against Japan's own naval ambitions, the USS Missouri was designed to solve a problem that history would render obsolete almost the moment she launched: how to build a fast, heavily armored gun platform in an age about to be ruled by the aircraft carrier. And yet "Mighty Mo" would go on to outlast nearly every ship built to make her irrelevant. Daniel Hardy traces her extraordinary sixty-...

The definitive history of Japanese organized crime, from its origins in samurai-era black markets and gambling rings to the shadowy syndicates of the present. “The best book in English on this fascinating and misunderstood subject.” ―Richard Lloyd Parry, author of People Who Eat Darkness...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late 17th century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy. This book gives listeners access to the real samurai as they lived, fought, and served. Much as they capture the modern imagination, the samurai commanded influence over the politics, arts, philosophy, and religion of their own time, and controlled Japan from the 14th century until their demise in the mid-19th century.

En Japón, durante todo el año se celebran numerosos festivales y otros eventos. Aquí damos a conocer sus encantos y su historia.

This audiobook is for those who want an easy-to-follow guide that will make learning the Japanese language both fun and simple. This audiobook is specifically created for travelers, students, and businesspeople who visit Japan.

Takoyaki is a specialty of Osaka that is just as famous as okonomiyaki.

・『ポン』から『ポケモンGO』まで、超有名ゲームの成り立ちがわかる ・人間の知性や感性、心理、行動が深く理解できる ・文化・教養としてのデジタルゲームと、人間・社会との関わりがわかる いま世界のゲーム人口は30億人。もはやゲームを抜きにして、人類を語ることはむずかしいのかもしれません。

In addition to sashimi and sushi, there are various ways of eating and preparing fish, such as grilling, boiling, salting, fermenting, drying, smoking, and pulping into a paste.

Umeboshi are a type of pickle made from ume (plums) fruits that are dried in the sun after being salted and soaked in ume vinegar.

Chawanmushi is a dish made by mixing various ingredients along with a beaten egg and dashi stock in a small bowl.

Chirashi-zushi is a type of sushi made by combining various ingredients with vinegared rice.

Rice has been an important part of the lives of Japanese people since ancient times.

Menchi katsu is a popular side dish on par with croquette.

The fundamental components of Japanese meals are rice, soup, and side dishes, with the soup providing both water and salt.

As well as okonomiyaki and takoyaki, there is another type of well-known "flour-based food" called monjayaki.

Tsukemono is a kind of food, mostly vegetables, that has been pickled in salt, rice bran, miso, or something else.

Sweet foods, such as Japanese and Western confectionaries, are known as kanmi (sweets).

Among the many types of egg cuisines, tamagoyaki is said to be one of Japan's unique household dishes. It is also known as atsuyaki tamago.

It is said that donburimono—rice served in a dish with its side dish placed on top—was created in the Edo period and originated with unadon, rice topped with eel.