Osaka: Asahi Shinbunsha, 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: Kokuritsu Daigaku Hoken Kanri Shisetsu Kyogikai Eizu Tokubetsu Iinkai, 1993. Paperback. 160p., text in Japanese, very good trade paperback in wraps. Issued by the Consortium on Health Facilities at National Universities, this book targets post-secondary educators. An opening chapter surveys AIDS around the world and in Japan (including discussion..... More

Cat.No: 157026

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: Joho Senta Shuppankyoku, 1992. Hardcover. 47p., 5.25x7.5 inches, text in Japanese and English, very good hardcover in dj. A bilingual edition by poster artist Akiyama, who created the "Condom Boy" and"“AIDS virus boy" characters as part of an awareness campaign for AIDS prevention. In the introduction, Akiyama explains how..... More

Cat.No: 153453

Tokyo: Bukkumansha, 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 relaunch..... More

Cat.No: 167169

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 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 in..... More

Cat.No: 150858

Tokyo: Burankasha, 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 female..... More

Cat.No: 202970

Tokyo: Shueisha, 2009. Paperback. 186p., very good in wraps; manga version of Beathorice's book by the same title. Text in Japanese. Based on Beathorice's blog about being a mother of two who discovers that her husband of seven years has a male lover, a younger co-worker (who is part time..... More

Cat.No: 163239

no place: Self-published by the author as dPress, 2003. Pamphlet. [14p]5.5x8.25 inches, spot-color decorations, rice-paper endsheets, text in Japanese characters, romanized Japanese, and English, very good chapbook in sewn wraps and matching folder which is edgeworn. After leaving the Berkeley Street Poets and Moe's Books Denner ran a small bookstore..... More

Cat.No: 219292

South San Francisco: Heian, 1983. 266p., very good hardcover, mildly worn dj; Japanese-langage edition of "Out of the mud grows the lotus." Brief explanatory printed letter from the author's widow is laid in, giving a San Leandro address. The minister from the Buddhist Churches of America discusses his work with..... More

Cat.No: 190650

Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken, 2010. Paperback. 214p., very good softcover, text in Spanish and Japanese. Haiku by the Ikebana instructor who has taught in San Francisco, New York and San Pablo. More

Cat.No: 211607

Tokyo: Shueisha, 2008. Hardcover. 460p., text in Japanese, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj with original white printed band intact. A suspense novel, one of the first in Japan to take up the theme of gender ambiguity, hermaphroditism, and intersex. More

Cat.No: 202969