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: 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

Matsudo: Nihon Puranningu Senta 日本プランニングセンター, 1996. Paperback. 273p., very good in wraps; text in Japanese. The front cover has a youthful photo and recommendation of the book from Kan Naoto, then a Diet representative, now Prime Minister. Aoki was a specialist working in the National Health Institute's AIDS information Center..... More

Cat.No: 153375

Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 1987. Paperback. xi, 162 p; very good in wraps, second printing. 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..... More

Cat.No: 153322

Tokyo: Daiyamondo-sha ダイヤモンド社, 2007. 250p., very good paperback in wraps. Text in Japanese. Paperback with intact obi (noting that the book is adapted from a blog that is about a true, and forbidden, story). Based on the story of a Japanese woman in her early 30s who lived in Tokyo..... More

Cat.No: 151282

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

Tokyo: Hakubikan Shuppan, 1987. Paperback. 206p., text in Japanese, very good paperback in wraps. Opens with discussion of cases of AIDS dementia in Japan; the disease is explained as being from the US which is at the front lines of AIDS; includes translation of latest sex manuals from US for..... More

Cat.No: 162830