Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy

Honjo Tasuku
Translated by Andrew Gonzalez

Cancer immunotherapy with anti-PD-1 antibodies has fundamentally changed the way we think about...

The Art of Emptiness

Sakaida Kakiemon XIV
Translated by Gavin Frew

For several hundred years, Japanese porcelain has been highly acclaimed and sought after around the...

Ashes to Awesome

Yoshikawa Hiroshi
Translated by Fred Uleman

Considered a miracle at the time, Japan’s emergence from devastation to become the world’s...

Asia Reoriented

Okamoto Takashi
Translated by Michael House

Nomads, farmers, and trade: world history was born where these elements intersected. In this...

The Bonds of the Japan-US Alliance

Sakamoto Kazuya

The Japan-US Security Treaty was first signed in 1951, coinciding with the end of Allied occupation...

The Book of Urushi

Matsuda Gonroku
Translated by Michael Brase and Komada Makiko
Supervised by Murose Kazumi

Urushi, Japanese lacquerware, is perhaps the oldest and most sublime of all the Japanese arts and...

The Building of Horyu-ji

Nishioka Tsunekazu and Kohara Jiro
Translated by Michael Brase

Horyu-ji temple was first erected in the seventh century and has come down to us today in the...

The Burden of the Past

Kimura Kan
Translated by Marie Speed
Foreword by Gi-Wook Shin

The Burden of the Past reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South...

Bushido and the Art of Living

Alexander Bennett

What is Bushido? What is Budo? How are the culture and traditions of samurai connected with the...

Closed Linguistic Space

Etō Jun

The United States postwar occupation of Japan likes to boast of having given the Japanese freedom...

Contemporary Japanese Architects

Igarashi Taro
Translated by David Noble

Architects play an essential role in contemporary society, helping to shape the environment in...

Contested Perceptions

Okamoto Takashi

The histories of China, Korea, and Japan have been intimately intertwined for centuries. But of...