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...

Immediately after the end of the war, Tokuma lives as a craftsman at a steel works in Yawata, Fukuoka. His brother, Giichi, was killed in the war and married to his widow Mankiko. Life with Mankiko, who was ...

A oneshot published in Garo '70 from Sasaki Maki.

O-Fuku, a maidservant who is greedy and has nothing else to offer, is appointed as Odai-sama's (Atsuhime) ``poison-monitor''. For Fuku, whose appetite for food outweighs his fear of poison, he is happy with ...

Original Webtoon: Ridibooks (Expired), Naver Series

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.

GO WITH THE FLOW: Slowly but surely he takes a promenade through Edo. "Furari" could be loosely translated as 'aimlessly', 'at random', 'bend in the wind' or 'go with the flow'. But our stroller this time le...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the ...

A biographical account of the famous Mongolian leader Temuchin who united the numerous Mongolian tribes in the 13th century, ultimately becoming titled as Chinggis Khan. It faithfully follows the account giv...

A manga diary by the legendary Tetsuya Chiba about his current life and how his family escaped from China back to Japan post-World War II.

Adaptation of a popular novel. Five years after the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed—- Kizou is the dour, misanthropic owner of a used-goods store. One night, out of the blue, the demon Koharu wanders into h...

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves...

Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she doesn’t long for a life of ...

In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her a...

There was once an ordinary and remote village to which a man, who had no relatives, appeared. Since then, everything has changed. Labor became pleasant, people stopped starving and became healthier, resultin...

In the Taisho era ,Shinjiro Katsuragi an aspiring novelist, moved to Tokyo and lives in a mysterious building called "Kurohige Hut", a house where all its inhabitants are yokai,The hut's caretaker Hiro...

A manga about Osamu Tezuka, the God of Manga, and his time with his assistants, including the food situation of the time! The book is a total of 164 pages and is packed with behind-the-scenes stories about ...