Summary: Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Kondo, Robert

Summary: When a poisonous black tidal wave carries Pig, Fox, and Hippo over the dam and into the wastelands, they find bustling cities with their own dams, but Pig and his friends must get back home before the black fog returns to their valley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018

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Yoshikawa, Eiji

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1992

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Yoshikawa, Mako.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999

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Yoshikawa, Isao

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Publisher / Publication Date: Joie, Inc. 1996

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Yoshizawa, Akira

Summary: This beautiful origami book is the first comprehensive survey of the extraordinary work of Akira Yoshizawa. In addition to 60 models from his private collection, it features over 1,000 original drawings by the artist, and English translations of his writings in Japanese on origami, all of which are published here for the very first time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd. 2016

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Horie, Yoshitaka.

Contents: The toughest battle in world history -- Isolated island : where no planes or vessels could go -- Saipan was said to be impregnable -- Iwo Jima is next! -- Iwo Jima : an island of pineapples and jungle -- The Ogasawara Islands force and the U.S. Pacific fleet -- Let's sink Iwo Jima into the ocean -- Supply operations at night via Chichi Jima -- Defensive operations from the caves -- Send more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2011

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Amano, Yoshitaka

Summary: Elegant Spirits first contains Amano's adaptation of The Tale of Genji, a psychological exploration of courtly love written a thousand years ago by Lady Murasaki, and often considered to be the earliest novel ever written. The second half of Elegant Spirits is Amano's Fairies, his portrayals of the many magical beings of English and Celtic lore and drama--from brownies and the Seelie Court, to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021

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Ishikawa, Masaji

Summary: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017

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Ishikawa, Akira

Contents: Wanyama na mapampbazuko -- Na tu penda sana -- Vita -- Pigmy.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: "There is a Japanese saying that goes, 'Hana yori dango, ' or 'dumplings over flowers.' And no one is more of an advocate of this adage than mangaka Y-naga, a woman whose life revolves around her intense work and equally intense sleep schedule. The only thing that can rouse her out of this infernal cycle of deadlines and being dead to the world? Food. As Y-naga and her friends visit restaurants...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2010

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Summary: "Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1975, this stirring chronicle tells the tale of Japanese alpinist Yūichirō Miura and his attempt to ski down Mt. Everest in 1970"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Film Detective 2016

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: Please note this is a gay manga novel. 'What Did You Eat Yesterday?' is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts casual romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: "Madam surprises Shiro with a gift that he quickly puts to good use. Shino asks Shiro for advice on how to keep her new husband fit and healthy. Kayoko invites Shiro to a cherry blossom picnic, at which Shiro is rescued from romantic disaster. Kenji gets a spiffy new suit for his birthday, and the couple considers the implications of a new same-sex partnership certificate law in Shibuya..." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2016

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: In this volume of discovery and acceptance, we learn that happiness depends on small constant pleasures (meals first and foremost)-and that the reason Kenji fell for Shiro has to do with an '80s manga. As the couple's relationship deepens, author Yoshinaga takes the slice-of-life genre to unique heights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: Please note this is a gay manga novel. 'What Did You Eat Yesterday?' is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts casual romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2014

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: Aa hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time together by the dinner table, where they can discuss their troubles, thrash out their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals! For Kenji's birthday Shiro gifts a trip...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: What Did You Eat Yesterday is best described as part comic, part cookbook - it depicts the romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, either in the law firm or the hair salon, Shiro and Kenji will always have down time...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2015

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Yoshinaga, Fumi

Summary: "As his clients get on in years, Kenji starts offering house call haircuts, which leads to the most emotional moment of Kenji's career as a stylist. Shino asks for someone to split the burden of clerical work at the office and the firm ends up with a very perceptive new employee. And Kohinata calls Shiro in a panic asking for help with Gilbert, and ultimately makes Shiro a very intriguing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2017

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