Japanese School

Eleven-year-old Japanese American Owen has been in Japan for his sixth-grade year. By March he finally feels like he's getting the hang of the new culture, making friends at school, and feeling at home with the "weird" food. But early one morning, everything changes - and Owen suddenly finds himself just trying to survive one of history's most devastating disasters.

In this international bestselling thriller, a former teacher delivers her final lesson to her students—including the two children that murdered her daughter. After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child...

“An empowering read.” --Susan David, Ph.D., author of Emotional Agility “A great book.” --Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., co-author of What Happened to You? As featured on The Mel Robbins Show—discover the surprising science of helping anyone change Whether as a parent, a boss, a romantic...

Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five...

Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco’s Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or...

“They say every classroom has a ghost. In 3-C, she’s waiting for love.” At Yumesaki High, rumors whisper of a beautiful girl who died waiting for her confession to be returned — a ghost cursed to haunt Classroom 3-C under every full moon. When transfer student Souta is assigned to that very room, he meets Aoi — the quiet, artistic girl seated beside the cursed desk. The two are strangers at first, but as eerie encounters and ghostly visions pull them closer, their bond deepens into a romance that defies logic... and maybe fate. But their growing love awakens something ancient and ...

I spent my schooldays from junior high to college at a Catholic school not for religious reasons but for my mother’s vanity. She wanted me to attend the most prestigious school in Kyoto in order to brag about it. With no religious background, I encountered quite a few unfamiliar events at school that held Catholic ceremonies regularly. The school often celebrated the Mass, which was an entirely new and different culture to me and I hadn’t the slightest idea what they were doing. Christian students sat in the front row with white lace veils on their heads at the assembly hall. The priest...

The follow-up to Ebony Gate, the critically acclaimed debut of Vee and Bebelle's Phoenix Hoard series. IT TAKES A KILLER TO CATCH A KILLER Emiko Soong, newly minted Sentinel of San Francisco, just can't catch a break. Just after she becomes the guardian for a sentient city, a murder strikes...

Step into the haunted halls of Shimizu High, where shadows move, whispers seep from the walls, and every echoing step might be the last you hear. When Akira Sato transfers to a new school, he discovers strange carvings on his desk and warnings from classmates about something called Peta Peta. At first, it seems like nothing more than a ghost story—until he hears the footsteps himself. Each night drags him deeper into cursed corridors, mirrored rooms, and the terrifying Sixth Level, where the faceless Watcher waits. Together with Yui, a brave classmate who knows more than she dares to ...

Adapted for young readers from the New York Times bestseller by Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain is the remarkable true story of three brave Japanese American soldiers who fought for the United States during World War II while facing discrimination at home. Perfect for readers of The Boys...

From USA Today bestselling author, C.J. Anaya, comes an epic saga of love, betrayal, and the ultimate battle between good and evil. Her touch could save multitudes. But even with superhuman powers, will one high-school senior survive a battle with almighty deities? Seventeen-year-old Hope wishes she could heal every wound. But after a heartbreaking ordeal during a hospital visit, her walk home turns into a fight for survival when she’s attacked by a two-tailed demon cat. And though she tries to shake off the incident, the sudden arrival of a pair of overly curious new classmates sets off ...

Step back into the neon-lit chaos of Crescent Moon Academy, where the studio is cramped, the guests are supernatural, and the host is one bad decision away from a complete emotional collapse. Inego Fallensworth wanted an educational radio show about yōkai. What he got instead? A vampire with an ego, an oni with zero sense of volume control, shape-shifters who refuse to stay on topic, a ghost who may be too honest for her own good, and a werewolf who reminds everyone that being a monster isn’t nearly as fun as the movies make it look. And, of course… Azuki. The tanuki who refuses to ...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born – Volume 5 Ryu Kazeyama wanted a second chance at life. What he got instead was Crescent Moon Academy. Once a burned-out man from West Virginia, Ryu now lives in the body of a teenager on a hidden island where ghosts attend school, demons flirt in the hallways, and the local hot spring doubles as a supernatural dormitory. Between fixing broken plumbing at Shin’yume-sou and surviving classes with monsters, Ryu’s new life is strange… but it’s starting to feel real. Too real. The fragile balance holding the island together is...

大量の情報があふれている現代において、せっかく学んだことをすぐに忘れてしまったり、覚えたはずなのに身についていなかったり、なかなか実践できないという人も多くいます。

今の日本企業に欠けている、創造性や生産性、レジリエンス、心理的安全性……すべては「ユーモア」が解決する！

In this thrilling adventure, Tessa Miyata and her best friend Jin must battle the gods ... and win. With magic abound and stakes higher than ever, this is a perfect pick for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers! After her first adventure in Tokyo, Tessa Miyata is having the most amazing summer...

The academy has fallen silent. The dead have not. Crescent Moon Academy is no longer a school. Its wards are broken, its halls overrun, and its buried past is clawing its way back into the present. As noppera-bō reclaim the campus and ancient authority is invoked from the shadows, Ryu Kazeyama is forced into a role he never wanted: leader, protector, and last line between chaos and collapse. Shion is still out there—changed, dangerous, and bound by a necromancer’s influence she can barely resist. Trust is fractured. Loyalties are tested. And the institution meant to shelter them all ...

What if the girl you love isn’t alive—and never was? Ryu wakes up in a teenage body, trapped in a supernatural high school he’s never heard of. His past is gone, his name rewritten, and the only thing that feels real anymore is Yuki—the ghost girl who won’t leave his side. In Part 3 of I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born, Ryu’s bond with Yuki grows deeper, stranger, and more dangerous. When they share a brief, impossible moment of physical contact, everything changes. Is she becoming more real—or is he fading into her world? Natsumi, the predatory cat-...

A haunted boy. A beautiful ghost. A love story that refuses to stay buried. Ryu thought surviving Crescent Moon Academy was hard enough—then he found out the girl haunting him died decades before he was born. In Volume 3, Part 2 of this emotionally charged supernatural saga, Ryu’s fragile peace is shattered as he dives deeper into the truth behind Yuki’s death—and the nightmare that still clings to her soul. With secrets unraveling, new allies emerging, and old enemies drawing closer, Ryu must face the one question he’s been avoiding: What happens if he saves her? And what if he ...

 Dear Diary Boy is an intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's experience in a prestigious private Tokyo school. It's a tale that will resonate with all parents as we try to answer the age-old questions of how best to educate our children and what, truly, is in their best interests versus what is in our own.