Osaka: Asahi Shinbunsha 朝日新聞社, 1946. 335p., stiff red wraps moderately worn. First post-war edition of the yearbook published by Asahi Simbun, one of Japan's major newspapers. More

Cat.No: 142252

Tokyo: Spartacst Group Japan, 1982-2004. Group of newsletters and pamphlets from the Trotskyist group, generally issued under the title Suparutashisuto スパルタシスト, a Japanese transliteration of "Spartacist." Includes a series of local reprints of articles from Workers Vanguard translated into Japanese (nos. 1-33, missing 9, with 4/5 a double issue), a...... More

Cat.No: 261408

Belmont, CA: n.pub. 1973. 39p., staplebound booklet, covers mildly foxed with a sunned area on front cover, staples rusted. Collection of poems in Japanese with Romanized transliteration. More

Cat.No: 215538

Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros. [194-]. [533p.], very good hardcover. Wartime facsimile copy of the Japanese original (Saishin Chuka Minkoku Manshu Teikoku jinmei chimei benran), for use by US War Department. More

Cat.No: 244297

Tokyo: Bukkumansha ブックマン社, 2002. Paperback. 220p., text in Japanese, illustrated with photos, very good paperback in pictorial wraps;. Author is a professional motor-boat racer, born in Osaka. The book explains the author’s early sense of being male in spite of being born biologically female and traces his successful attempt to..... More

Cat.No: 167169

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 1986. Paperback. xi, 162 p; very good in wraps. Text in Japanese. Iwanami gendai sensho series, no. NS 550. Introduces the nature of the AIDS virus, discusses its spread; notes various forms of AIDS; chapter on encounters with AIDS patients; describes scene at an AIDS clinic..... More

Cat.No: 150858

Tokyo: Bunkasha ぶんか社, 2013. Paperback. 135p., text in Japanese, manga strips, very good trade paperback comic book in wraps and matching dj. Presented as a comic (B&W and some color), the book discusses sekumai (sexual minorities) in Japan focusing specifically on gender. Author and manga artist Arai grew up as..... More

Cat.No: 202970

Tokyo: Futami Shobo 二見書房, 1989. 291p., lots of photos half of which in color; very good in 6.5x4 inch wraps with a printed sash-band; text in Japanese. On mystery, or "crop circles" cut into standing agricultural fields. Translated from Pat Delgado's book, "Circular Evidence" More

Cat.No: 193821

Tokyo: Futtowaaku Shuppan フットワーク出版, 1993. Paperback. 180, 18p., illustrated with cartoon figures, text in Japanese, very good reprint paperback in green pictorial wraps. The author was an internist for the Kinki area Health Center. The preface urges readers to not make the mistake of considering themselves immune while at the..... More

Cat.No: 153382

Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo 筑摩書房, 1988. Paperback. 201p., text in Japanese, very good trade paperback in wraps. Discusses AIDS, drug use, and bioethics. Contents drawn mainly from Time magazine articles from the 1980s - selections are reprinted in English, translated, glossed, and then explained and commented upon in Japanese. Contains extensive..... More

Cat.No: 163256

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 1987. Paperback. 62p., text in Japanese, very good slim trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Iwanami bukkuretto series, no.89. Author was a television producer of health and medicine related programs for NHK (Japan's public broadcasting), he also consulted with Ministry of Health. Written after the first wave..... More

Cat.No: 150838

Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitatsverlag, 1952. 123p., sewn textblock in 9.5x6.5 inch tobacco-brown wraps printed sepia, mild external wear and toning, underlines on the Vorwort page, an otherwise good clean copy. Bibliothek der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft herausgegeben von Hans Krahe. Some basic features of Japanese language-structure demonstrated with practical examples. More

Cat.No: 170132

Tokyo: Nihon Iryo Kikaku 日本医療企画, 1988. Hardcover. 330 p., text in Japanese, illustrations, very good second printing hardcover with dj. The author traveled to the US in 1954, lived in Chicago studying cardio surgery for 3 years. After starting a teaching career in Japan, returned to US in 1959 and..... More

Cat.No: 150832