Japanese Biography

なぜ 語らないのか。

なぜ 俯いて歩くのか。

なぜ いつも独りなのか。

そしてなぜ 嫌われるのか――。

中日ドラゴンズで監督を務めた8年間、ペナントレースですべてAクラスに入り、日本シリーズには5度進出、2007年には日本一にも輝いた。

「自分探し」なんてムダなこと。「本当の自分」を探すよりも、「本物の自信」を育てたほうがいい。脳、人生、医療、死、情報、仕事など、あらゆるテーマについて、頭の中にある「壁」を超えたときに、

As a young man, Norman Bethune served as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War. The experience left him with the dedication and passion to lead crusades to find a cure for tuberculosis, to introduce universal health care in Canada, and to introduce mobile blood transfusion units to save wounded soldier's lives on the battlefield. He served with the Republican armies during the Spanish Civil War and in China where he died of blood poisoning in 1939 Because of his left wing politics, Bethune was ignored for decades in his home country. His childhood home in Gravenhurst, Ontario sees large...

全国新聞初の外国人記者として東京の裏社会を駆け巡った著者。日本人顔負けの諺を放ち、日本社会に迎合しながらもアウトサイダーの立場を逆手に取る。大胆不敵で無鉄砲、茶目っ気たっぷりに色目も惜しまず独自の捜査スタイルを確立していった様を描く。世間を震撼させた愛犬家連続殺人事件の真相から歌舞伎町に潜む人身売買の闇まで、スクープを追い続けた12年。その果てに彼が手にしたのは、日本最大の暴力団組織と米国FBIが絡みあったスキャンダルだった･･････。 「記事を消すか、お前が消されるか」山口組分裂のきっかけともなった衝撃の事実を掴んだ記者は、人生最大の決断を迫られる。 日本の大手出版社が復讐を恐れ、出版を見送った禁断の暴露本が遂に日本解禁！ Audibleで臨場感そのままにこのスリルを体験。

今年一番の話題作！　マスク自身が語り尽した初の公式伝記。世界的ベストセラー『スティーブ・ジョブズ』評伝作家だからこそ描けた。

もう人間関係、世代間ギャップ、依存症で悩まない！　脳科学者が脳卒中に学んだこと。

「上司に振りまわされる仕事」現役銀行員が暴きだす、業界の恥部と醍醐味――語らずにいられないことM銀行は最近、世間を騒がせるいくつかの不祥事を引き起こした。

■シリコンバレーの奇跡　1999年、若き異端児マスクが始めた会社X.comと天才ティール＆レヴチンが始めたコンフィニティは数奇にも、シリコンバレーのとある建物で隣り合って入居していた。

《この世代の世代論は、ノスタルジーか残酷物語のどちらかである。そうではない本を書くことが本書の目的だが、そうなっただろうか。》――速水健朗(本書「あとがき」より)

The Block Manager is the gripping memoir of Janet, an American-born child of Japanese immigrants. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Janet's life in California was uprooted when thousands of Japanese Americans on the West Coast - including Janet's family - were forced into internment camps. Because of her brilliant command of English and Japanese, she was assigned the job of block manager. Janet was shuffled between three camps, got married, and had a child while the war raged on.

「コップに三分の一くらい注いで、飲んじゃ入れ、飲んじゃ入れして飲むのが、ビールの本当にうまい飲み方なんですよ。」ナミナミと部下に注いでもらうのではなくて。ー衣食住、ヨメさんの扱い方まで、半世紀をこえて「男」として生きた人間の美学。親父の小言を聞きたくなったときにもおすすめです。

Russko-yaponskaya voyna: Buduchi voennym korrespondentom na ehtoy voyne. Krasnov prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie v boyah. Pered nami zahvatyvayushchee povestvovanie o geroizme nashih soldat v bitvah s protivnikom, prevoskhodyashchim russkih i chislom i osnashcheniem. Na vnutrennem fronte: Razval armii i fronta posle fevralya 1917 goda v sledstvie znamenitogo Prikaza N1 o soldatskih komitetah. Polnyy haos v voyskah i torzhestvo hamstva.

墜落現場の特定と救助はなぜ遅れたのか。目撃された戦闘機の追尾と赤い物体。仲間を失った元客室乗務員が執念で解き明かす渾身のノンフィクション。事故ではなく事件なのか？

Growing up, Wat Misaka wasn’t the tallest kid on the basketball court, but he was fast and he loved the game! In his Japanese American basketball league, Wat dribbled with speed and shared the ball as much as he scored. Encouraged by his father to always do his best, Wat applied this mindset to every challenge in his life. As Wat spent more time on the court, his passion for the game grew. He played in college at the University of Utah during WWII, a time when many Japanese Americans were stripped of their freedoms and incarcerated by the US government.

In the late 19th century, after Japan was restored to imperial rule, the samurais were no longer the seat of power. The families who were impacted by this shift lost wealth and power. Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was the daughter of one such samurai, and had begun her life on a track to become a Buddhist priestess. But as the family lost their position in society, her path changed, and she was eventually sent to the United States to be in an arranged marriage to an American man. A Daughter of the Samurai is her personal memoir.

大宅賞、講談社ノンフィクション賞、ダブル受賞に輝いた感動ノンフィクション!敗戦から12年目に遺族が手にした6通の遺書。ソ連軍に捕われ、極寒と飢餓と重労働のシベリア抑留中に死んだ男のその遺書は

アイダホの山奥で育ったタラ。狂信的なモルモン教原理主義者の父の方針で、学校へも通わせてもらえず、病院に行くのも禁じられていた。兄からは虐待も受けていた。

1976. A 22-year-old Japanese American woman enters the management ranks of a major corporation and encounters...just what you'd expect. Sexism. Misogyny. Racial bias. And she breaks barriers anyway. From the moment Elaine Koyama was hired as a management trainee at agri-business giant Cargill, Inc., she found herself entangled in the endless fight to wedge herself through the doors the women's movement opened.

As one of six children of British medical missionaries, John Hoyte grew up in China till age 13. During World War ll, he and his siblings, separated from their parents, were interned by the Japanese for nearly four years. In his 20s, he led a British expedition over the Alps with an elephant to investigate which way Hannibal and his army of 30,000 men and 37 elephants had taken in 218 BC. Later, he founded a start-up corporation in Silicon Valley and was an inventor and entrepreneur. With each surprising twist and turn of his journey, John has built a fulfilling life, infused with purpose and creativity.

その日、僕は出家した、彼女と社会を捨てて――。道元が開いた曹洞宗の本山・永平寺。ひとたび山門を潜れば、そこは娑婆とは別世界。東司（トイレ）にも行鉢（食事）にも厳格な作法がある。新入りは、古参僧侶に罵倒され、規矩を徹底的に叩き込まれる。