Japanese Science

This plain-language guide moves beyond simple recipe collections to teach home cooks the underlying chemistry and microbiology of fermentation, equipping them with the scientific understanding needed to confidently make, adjust, and troubleshoot any ferment. Most fermentation books hand you a recipe and a promise about probiotics. This one hands you the underlying chemistry, so every recipe you meet from this point forward finally makes sense. Written for **first-time fermenters, curious foodies, and home cooks who want to understand what their kitchen is actually doing**, this is a plain-...

「保守＝ネトウヨ」「保守＝自国礼賛、排外主義」「保守＝変化しない」じゃない！イギリス在住の元国連専門機関職員が伝える、「世界の保守と日本の保守は、こんなに違う！」■日本の保守は、本来の「保守主義」とは全然違う!?■保守・リベラルの歴史と本当の意味を知ろう！■日本人が知らない「世界が右傾化している理由」■イギリスから白人がいなくなる！■アメリカ貧困層の想像を絶する悲惨さ■“理想郷”北欧諸国の都合の悪い真実■少子化、超格差、移民で変わる日本の未来■今こそ、“正しい保守活”を始めよう！

Think you know urban legends? Think again. Perhaps you’ve heard of Kuchisake-onna, the slit-mouthed woman who cuts your mouth from ear to ear? How about Sugisawa, the cursed village that damns all who stumble upon it? Did you know that people lurk in the suicide forest waiting to claim victims of their own?

Discover fascinating ancient Japanese fairy tales as well as the folk tales of the Ainu/Aino. The first book in this collection, titled Japanese Fairy Tales, was written by Iwaya Sazanami and translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, a 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. The second book in this collection is a rare one that is not usually available in audio format: Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Chamberlain, one of the most prominent British Japanologists active in Japan during the latter half of the 19th century.

The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi's classic The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu. Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai swordsman and his works, and in this book he illuminates this seminal text, along with several other works by Musashi.

It’s not just a diet. It’s an Operating System for the human body. Why does a nation that consumes white rice, fatty pork, and high-sodium miso soup have the lowest rates of obesity and heart disease in the developed world? The answer is not in a single "superfood." It is in the code. In Eat Like Japanese, you will move beyond simple recipes to discover the metabolic architecture that has protected the Japanese people for centuries. Combining the ancient wisdom of the Samurai’s Yojokun with cutting-edge molecular biology, this book reveals: The Vegetable-First Protocol: How to use ...

――「この国に生まれたことが、罪ですか？」 日本で生まれ育ちながら、在留資格を持たず「仮放免」として暮らす子どもたちがいる。 仮放免とは、収容は一時的に免れるものの在留資格がない状態のことだ。国民健康保険にも入れず、進学や就労の道も閉ざされ、県をまたいだ移動すら原則できない。

Giant monsters. Tales of eternal love. The beginning of creation. Pint-sized warriors. Long voyages and insurmountable heroics are only a small piece of the classic myths that have helped shape Japan’s unique and immaculate history. Each story in this audiobook is filled with excitement and adventure that is just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.

Mimei Ogawa, a prolific author of short stories nearly 100 years ago, is considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Japanese children’s literature. He has also been called the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan because of how his works were influenced by Andersen. This collection contains a fresh, modern translation of one of Mimei Ogawa’s most famous works, "The Mermaid and the Red Candles", as well as several other stories that have never been translated and published in English before.

The Konjaku Monogatari Shu is a collection of tales from Buddhist and popular Japanese folklore that was compiled in the twelfth century. The stories in this book tell of fearsome demons, tengu goblins, kitsune fox spirits, flying hermits and gods who suddenly appear out of nowhere to rescue foolish humans. There are tales of vengeful animals, robbers, bandits and murderers, as well as ordinary people from all walks of life.

After being summoned to a new world and thrown down into the depths of hell, Hajime Nagumo met Yue and together they conquered the Great Orcus Labyrinth. The pair was planning on taking it easy on the surface for a little bit, but a meeting with the bunny girl Shea Haulia throws a wrench into those plans. She has the peculiar power to see the future, and according to her, Hajime's the one saving her family in her visions! Hajime was planning on refusing, but it appears she might be able to help him on his quest to return home. And so, the adventure continues in Reisen Gorge.

In this New York Times bestseller, internationally renowned Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto shows how the influence of our thoughts, words and feelings on molecules of water can positively impact the earth and our personal health. This book has the potential to profoundly transform your world...

Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation.

"ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Jane is a naughty, dirty nurse who works for a plastic surgery clinic in Los Angeles. One day she and her friend Roxy witness a tentacle monster mutant manhandling a lady at the beach, an event which inspires a massive group session where everyone joins in for some exhibition. Later, Jane heads to work and tends to a paranormal patient. Only her patient is no normal man. He has something ...

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

Stop treating liquids as just hydration. In the Japanese functional nutrition paradigm, they are the architectural foundation of human longevity. While Western diets obsess over solid macronutrients, the secret to Japanese metabolic health lies in the fluid matrix: precision-extracted broths, shaded green teas, roasted seed infusions, and fermented enzymatic elixirs. In The Liquid Matrix, part of the acclaimed Eat Like Japanese series, author Vynychenko Dmytro strips away the mysticism of traditional Eastern medicine and replaces it with hardcore molecular biology. You will not find casual ...

The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki are two of the best-loved works of their kind; famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition. It has been said of The Narrow Road that 'it was as if the very soul of Japan had itself written it'. It takes the form of a travel diary, and traces the poet's journey from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to the northern interior.

夏休みのある日、ハリーは13才の誕生日を迎える。あいかわらずハリーを無視するダーズリー一家。さらに悪いことに、おじさんの妹、恐怖のマージおばさんが泊まりに来た。耐えかねて家出するハリーに、恐ろしい事件がふりかかる。脱獄不可能のアズカバンから脱走した囚人がハリーの命を狙っているという。　新任のルーピン先生を迎えたホグワーツ校でハリーは魔法使いとしても、人間としてもひとまわりたくましく成長する。

時空と運命を操る第三法力とやらのため、ヒロは金色の九尾・タマモと契約。だがその対価は大量発生した宇宙怪獣の駆除！？ 進化したクリシュナで大暴れしたはいいが、タマモがクギに憑依してしまい……？

クィディッチのワールドカップで、空に不吉な印が上がった。ヴォルデモートの復活か？　巧妙に仕組まれた罠が、ハリーを三大魔法学校対抗試合の選手に選ぶ。