Product Description: Originally published in 1918, Rivalry is regarded as the masterpiece of Nagai Kafu, a Japanese novelist known for his brilliant renderings of Tokyo in the early years of modern Japan. Stephen Snyder offers the first English translation of the complete, uncensored text, which has long been celebrated as one of the most convincing and sensually rich portraits of the geisha profession...read more

Product Description: The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent...read more

A trio of novellas from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author explores the mysteries of love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, innocence, and cruelty, in the stories of a lonely teenage girl who falls in love with her foster brother, a young woman who records her pregnant sister's daily moods in a journal, and a woman who revisits her old college dormitory outside of Tokyo. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Childhood Autism provides clinicians with a comprehensive guide for working with autistic children and their families. It offers practical assistance with early diagnosis, cutting edge treatment options and goals, interdisciplinary insights, and available resources. Empirical research findings are presented in a clear, accessible manner. Perhaps most importantly, vivid case examples bring both the therapist’s and patient’s experience to the fore as they work towards recovery. This clear and informative book should be required reading for professionals and students in the fields of medicine, social work, psychology, education, and any other clinicians who work with children on the autism spectrum.

Inspired by a real-life murder of a fourteen-year-old boy, this startling novel set in the underbelly of Japan focuses on a disenfranchised Japanese teenager and his violent inclinations. Reprint.

After strangling her husband, Masako Katori, a middle-aged wife and mother working the night shift at a Tokyo factory, enlists the aid of four co-workers to conceal the crime.

Product Description: Recognized as a master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the period 1946-55. As this anthology reveals, however, his production was remarkably multifaceted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Stephen Snyder examines Kafu's fiction in terms of narrative strategy, placing him squarely within some of the most important currents of literary modernism--at the nexus of Naturalism and the largely antithetical development of the modernist reflexive novel. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

After spending sixteen years in prison for the murder of his wife, Shiro Kikutani adjusts to his freedom and the intensity of life in Tokyo while living with the memory of his crime. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

This text surveys the accomplishments of Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and other writers of the post-war generation, while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the post-Oe generation. It includes essays on Endo Shusaku, Hayashi Kyoko, Kanai Mieko, Kurahashi Yumiko, Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Nakagami Kenji, Oe Kenzaburo, Ohba Minako, Shimada Masahiko, Takahashi Takako and Yoshimoto Banana. (view table of contents)

A comprehensive resource for the beer lover profiles the new breed of craft beers and the breweries that produce them, giving histories of the beers, different types of ratings, and details about the taste of each one. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Offering an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural examination of East Asian culture, these essays include readings of film, television and visual and literary texts which reflect the historical condition as well as the impulses driving East Asian culture today.

Product Description: This study analyzes the representations of human subjectivity in a number of European films, from «Pandora's Box» to «The American Friend.» The various analyses incorporate the issues prominent in current post-structuralist discourse, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and to some degree, contemporary art and science...read more