Izanaki and Izanami are the significant deities that give birth to all living things in this world, including humans, lands, and even natural objects and phenomena. Despite their creations, tragedy strikes down on the goddess, Izanami, when a deity of fire kills her. Izanaki’s grief leads him to the Land of the Dead to revive her but arrives too late. Their fate seems to separate the Land of Life and the Land of the Dead. And Izanaki who returns from the Land of the Dead purified himself and begets the Three Precious Children, the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, the deity of water Susanoo, and the deity of the Moon Tsukuyomi. Amaterasu, the ancestor of the imperial family, rules the world of Heaven and nurtures all living things on the earth, and Susanoo nurtures all living things by providing water from the underground and also absorbing all our impurities, agonies, sins, carrying them underground.

渡辺由佳里主宰のブログ「洋書ファンクラブ」による「これを読まずして年は越せないで賞」の待望の書籍化。電子書籍先行発売。 第一弾は「文芸小説篇」。 権威ある文学賞などとは違って、受賞作の基準は文学的完成度より、とにかく面白いこと。英語学習者にもおすすめ。 このあと「ヤング・アダルト篇」、「大衆小説篇」、「ファンタジー篇」、「ミステリー篇」を予定。 【目次】 ■ 21世紀イチオシ洋書（文芸小説篇）——渡辺由佳里 ■ 洋書の読みやすさ（難易度）レベルについて ■ 2001年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Life of Pi Yann Martel ■ 2002年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka ■ 2003年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri ■ 2004年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Gilead Marilynne Robinson My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult ■ 2005年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro ■ 2006年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Mister Pip Lloyd Jones The Road Cormac McCarthy ■ 2007年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid ■ 2008年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton ■ 2009年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann The Little Stranger Sarah Waters Tunneling to the Center of the Earth Kevin Wilson ■ 2010年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Burning Bright Ron Rash Room Emma Donoghue ■ 2011年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった 11/22/63 Stephen King The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht ■ 2012年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson Where'd You Go Bernadette Maria Semple ■ 2013年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler ■ 2014年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James Preparation for the Next Life Atticus Lish Station Eleven Emily St.John Mandel The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry Gabrielle Zevin ■ 2015年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara Fates and Furies Lauren Groff His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra ■2016年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles The Nix Nathan Hill They Were Like Family to Me Helen Maryles Shankman The Queen of the Night Alexander Chee ■ 2017年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Exit West Mohsin Hamid Less Andrew Sean Greer Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward ■ 2018年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Circe Madeline Miller Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Milkman Anna Burns There There Tommy Orange ■ 2019年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Ask Again, Yes Mary Beth Keane Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson Trust Exercise Susan Choi ■ 2020年はこれを読まなきゃ越せなかった Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell Interior Chinatown Charles Yu Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart

As global energy and environment problems draw increasing attention, Japan has set a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It has become even more important to promote the development of technology for fully utilizing hydrogen in the future, and also to explore fundamental science.However, since the foundational science related to hydrogen (hereinafter, hydrogen science) spans an extremely wide range of academic fields including engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology, sufficient opportunities have not been established for sharing cutting-edge trends and promoting joint research. Against this kind of background, the “Hydrogenomics: Creation of Innovative Materials, Devices, and Reaction Processes Using Higher-Order Hydrogen Functions” project was established under a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (FY2018 to FY2022). Through this framework, research has been promoted with the aim of creating the science for mastering the advanced use of hydrogen. We call this research area “hydrogenomics” (hydrogen + omics [system of learning]), and strive to promote joint research related to the diverse physical properties and functions of flexibly and continuously transformable hydrogen through cooperation between researchers in a wide range of academic fields including engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology. Practical, systematic joint research into hydrogen science that spans such as wide range of academic fields is unprecedented worldwide and this is the first such attempt. This book summarizes the following to provide a practical guide for obtaining new directions and widely sharing the state of activities in this new academic field, hydrogenomics. Chapter 1 “Diverse properties of hydrogen in materials” gives an overview of the “high densification ability of hydrogen”, which is related to many of energy functions; the “interfacial localizability of hydrogen”, which is important for enhancing electronic functions and mechanical properties; the “fast migration ability of hydrogen”, which includes short- and long-range migration phenomena and coupling with electrons related to new conceptual devices: and “high activation ability of hydrogen”, which is related to new material conversion processes. In order to fully utilize hydrogen based on these properties, it is essential to also perform research into analyzing and predicting hydrogen, which is difficult to detect in materials, with higher accuracy than ever before. Chapter 2 “Advanced measurements and calculations for hydrogen in materials” introduces cutting-edge hydrogen measurements driven by new methods, and the latest hydrogen calculations for “seeing” invisible hydrogen. Chapters 3 to 5 introduce some results related to fully utilizing hydrogen to explain the state of activities in “hydrogenomics”. Chapter 3 “Synthesizing new materials” explains the latest in high-pressure synthesis and thin-film synthesis technology, and then introduces hydride-ion conductors, hydrogen boride sheets, and other materials. Chapter 4 “Designing new devices” introduces new concepts for devices related to hydrogen and hydrides, such as hydride-based all-solid-state batteries, hydrogen-doped solar cells, rechargeable fuel cells, and proton-coupled electron transfer thermochemical cells. Furthermore, Chapter 5 “Providing new reaction processes and visualization technology” introduces new synthesis techniques for amino acids and ammonia, and new hydrogen visualization technologies using metal complexes. [Translation and revision from the Japanese language edition: The Science of Fully Utilizing “Hydrogen” Hydrogenomics, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd., 2022]

「UFO現象は国家安全保障上の脅威である」 アメリカ政府を動かした「衝撃のUFO証言録」がついに邦訳刊行！ 2021年6月、アメリカ国防総省は「未確認空中現象に関する予備報告書（通称：ペンタゴンUAPレポート）」を公表した。UAP（未確認空中現象）とは、UFO（未確認飛行物体）に替わる用語である。これまでUFO事件を黙殺あるいは隠蔽してきたといわれるアメリカ政府が、「これらの現象は国家安全保障上の脅威である」と初めて公式に認めたのだ。この画期的ともいえるアメリカ政府の変化に大きく影響を与えたのが、本書であった。待望の日本語版は、UFOファンにとって、まさに必携必読の書といえるだろう。 「ＵＦＯ（Unidentified Flying Objects：未確認飛行物体）」という用語は誤用され、大衆文化の一部になりすぎたため、本来の（そして正確な）定義がほぼ完全に失われている。……「ＵＦＯ」という用語には付随する夾雑物が非常に多いため、一部の科学者や他の専門家は、真摯な研究をより軽薄なものから分離するために新しい用語を採用している。「ＵＦＯ」の代わりに、一部の寄稿者は「ＵＡＰ（Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon/Phenomena：未確認空中現象）」を使用することを選択した（「はじめに」より）。 原題：UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Govo On tht Officials Go on te Record

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