Autobiographical tale in which Mizuki narrates the memories of his childhood in the decade of 1930, in Sakaiminato, a small coastal town at the southwest Japan. With nostalgia and tenderness, the mangaka...

In the winter of 1967, a 20-year-old man returns home from his travels aboard a ferry, where a chance encounter forever alters his perception of the world around him. While relaxing in the cabin, he is...

A captivating collection of short stories by Ryoichiro Kezuka that explores the quiet, powerful intersections of music, memory, and everyday life. At the heart of these stories is a young woman working at a...

The novels are set in the Japanese court of 1000 years ago and follow the exploits of court astronomer, diviner, and exorcist Abe-no-Seimei and former prince and most talented musician of his time Minamoto-no...

1921, Taisho era. The world is in a brief period of peace between the two World Wars. A young boy from Osaka, distraught after losing his parents, gets sent to the Vatican, in Italy, where he will study in a...

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. Women...

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 boy...

Third and last installment of the Nagasaki trilogy.

Follows the daily lives of Japanese soldiers taking part in the Battle of Peleliu during World War II: a high-casualty, months-long campaign. The main character, Tamaru, dreams of returning home to become a...

Portrays the famous naturalist Plinius. From volcanic explosions and tidal waves to the ecology of plants and animals, the work reproduces the world of Natural History, the Plinius encyclopedia describing the...

At a time when giant department stores and supermarkets dominated the Japanese retail industry, two businessmen, Toshifumi Suzuki and Hideo Shimizu, discovered a new type of small retail store flourishing in...

In 1960s America, the Japanese automobile was seen as a "second-class" inferior. In spite of it all, men dared to dream of building a world beating Japanese sports car. Through the innovative zeal of Yutaka...

From: Easy Going Scans Six minors (aged 16-17), known by the nicknames Joe, Mario, Suppon, Baremoto, Heitai, and Kyabetsu, find themselves sent to a correctional facility for offences such as aggravated...

Sarusuberi recounts short episodes in the later life of Hokusai, the genius ukiyo-e artist, and of his daughter, Oei.

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, resulting...