KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of w...

"If nothing changes whether one laughs or cries, then in this lifetime, I refuse to cry." This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best i...

This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

In the Pleasure District of Yoshiwara courtesans and their clients meet in the ancient city of Edo. From the most popular teahouses to the most infamous, in each room, a woman and a man talk to each other, b...

Osaka, 1955, in the town of Tsuten-Kaku. She left that stale life from her drunken husband, alone that night with her son. Looking for a new path without knowing how life will turn out to be. Her son was he...

A semi fictitious oneshot by author Maruo Suehiro, intersecting the life of Polish Franciscan Friar missionary, Maximilian Kolbe (a real life historical person) and a young Japanese prior to the Nagasaki Bom...

The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as t...

One rainy day while Motoi and his friend, Reiichi were on their way home, they encountered a young girl who looked like a foreigner who then led them to a shop by a hill slope. There, they meet the shop owne...

Original Manga

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Wo...

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old bo...

Third and last installment of the Nagasaki trilogy.

This is the story of Kumiko, granddaughter of the last Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. She was born in the year before Great Kanto Earthquake (1922 / Taisho 11), and survived the turbulent times of 3 different pe...