This book will change your perspective! Japanese-English Bilingual Edition. 日英完全併記版 In 1997, a mysterious group of megaliths comparable to Stonehenge was discovered in the mountains of Hida-Kanayama in Japan. This book is a report on the investigation by two Japanese civilian researchers and an American astrophysicist who struggled to unravel the mystery. They discovered the astonishing fact that these megaliths were solar observatories for ancient people 5,000 years ago, and that they knew the solar calendar! 【目次】 Introduction はじめに Part 1 To the Jomon Forest where Megaliths 巨石の眠る縄文の森へ Part 2 Treasure Hunting in the Cave 洞窟の中の宝さがし Part 3 Design of Kanayama Solar Calendar 金山太陽カレンダーの設計図 Part 4 Some Messages from “Modern Ancients” “現代の古代人” からのいくつかの伝言 Appendix 付篇 Acknowledgement 謝辞 【著者】 小林由来 岐阜県金山町生まれ。画家、巨石天文学研究者。1997年、故郷の山中である巨石に刻まれた謎の痕跡に遭遇。「これは古代人が残した文化の痕跡ではないか」と直感、独自の観測調査に着手する。その後27年に及ぶ詳細な調査から「古代人が巨石を利用しグレゴリオ暦に優る正確な太陽暦をこの地で考案していた」ことを確信。他の地域にも残る巨石から古代文化を探る調査を継続中。 徳田紫穂 愛知県名古屋市生まれ。写真家。1997年、アート活動を通じて知りあった小林由来氏から謎の痕跡をもつ巨石の存在を聞く。その後訪れた山中で偶然「V字型の巨石間に太陽が沈みこんでいく光景」に遭遇し写真に収める。この１枚の写真が契機となり、小林氏の巨石群調査に参加。現地調査に加え、データ分析や写真撮影を担当してきた。本書ではアートワークによる資料制作のほか、翻訳、執筆、広報役など多くの役を担当した。 ハリエット・ナツヤマ 米国ハワイ州生まれ。宇宙物理学者。元カリフォルニア州立大学教授。理学博士（京都大学）。大学を退職後、故郷のハワイで担当した青少年向け教育プログラムに古代日本の天文学を紹介したいと考えていたところ、ネットを通じて金山巨石群の存在を知り、2010年春に現地を初めて訪れる。データの検証を詳細に行った結果、金山太陽カレンダーが世界のどの地域にも適用できる優れた暦であること、天文学や人類史を学ぶ上で非常に重要な意味をもっていることを確信する。以後、調査チームの共同研究者となり本書では科学監修を担当した。

The case of wartime laborers, compensation for comfort women, dispute over theLiancourt Rocks (Takeshima / Dokdo)... the anti-Japanese activities in Korea seems tobecome more and more violent for the last few years.For the better understanding of Korea, here we would like to review Korean history andcandidly show the points about which we regularly have questions. We would ask people inthe world to judge whether this belief is correct. «about the author» In 1938, Masaru TOKUDA was born in Japan, as the second son of a fallen soldier. After graduating from a technical school, engaged in research & development, manufacturing and sales of industrial machinery equipment. Also, engaged in corporatemanagement for a Japanese private enterprise. Through the business, interacted with people from India, four Southeast Asian countries, twenty-six provinces/cities of China, Taiwan, South Korea, three European countries andthe United States. After retirement, lived his life at the fullest. But concerned about intense of anti-Japanesemovement in South Korea. Established the “Association for the Review of Japan-KoreaRelationship”, and now works in research about the relationship of two countries.

※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字だけを拡大することや、文字列のハイライト、検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。 One year after World War II ended, in 1946, two young Japanese children, a sister and her brother, somehow defied the odds and survived a month long dangerous journey from the former Japanese colony of Manchuria in northeast China to their hometown in Japan. Iku was only 10 years old. She and her 6-yr. old brother traveled 340 miles on land, mostly on foot, day and night, with little food, clothing, or money while holding each other’s hands. What kept them going every day? It was the promise that they made to their mother? “Never let go of each other’s hand and safely return to Japan to be reunited with everyone.” They simply wanted to see Mommy again. This is a true story of war, not of who’s on the right side and who’s on the wrong side, or who was crueler than the other, but how war impacts people everywhere, including innocent children, like Iku and her siblings. Most importantly, this book demonstrates how love, courage and determination can see us through the most difficult times. 70 years after the end of World War II, Iku finally decided to let her daughter, Izumi, tell her story to the whole world, hoping her ordeal will play a small part in contributing to world peace. All the illustrations in this book are done by Iku herself. Originally published in Japanese in 2016, this English version is now available to spread Iku’s inspiring story across the world.

The Tokyo Trial, like the Nuremberg Trial, was unique as a judicial event. Presided over by eleven Allied judges, Japan’s wartime leaders were individually tried in an international court of justice for crimes against international law. After two years of hearings, a majority judgment found twenty-five of the accused guilty; seven were sentenced to death. However, factionalism amongst justices and competing political interests served to undermine the final judgment, widely criticized as “victors’ justice.” Some seventy years later, its legacy continues to inform international politics and polarize ideological debate. In this revised English edition of his 2008 book, Tokyo Saiban, winner in the History and Civilization category of the 30th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, eminent political scientist Dr. HIGURASHI Yoshinobu sets aside routine ideological approaches that have characterized study of the tribunal until now and focuses our attention on the engrossing political dynamics surrounding the Tokyo Trial and its current impacts. Drawing on exhaustive research into foreign policy documents and inter-ministerial correspondence, Higurashi traces the contours of diplomacy in the wake of World War II, revisiting the Tokyo Trial from the viewpoint of Japan’s postwar international relations to shed new light on an event unprecedented in world history.

＊この電子書籍は、2016年10月07日に発売した『父・金正日と私　金正男独占告白』の英訳版です。 The abrupt death of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s supreme leader, in late 2011 has propelled Kim Jong-un, his third and youngest son, to the helm of the reclusive communist state. As the untested young leader tries to consolidate his power, Kim Jong-nam, his half-brother who lives a life of exile in China, is keeping an eye on the precarious situation in his homeland. On January 3, 2012, just weeks after his father’s death, Kim Jong-nam sent an e-mail to a Japanese journalist asking a scathing rhetorical question: “Power transfer to the third generation is unacceptable. How can a young successor, with only two years of grooming, take over the absolute power that has been sustained for the last 37 years?” Based on seven hours of interviews and more than 150 e-mails between Kim Jong-nam and the journalist, Yoji Gomi, “My Father, Kim Jong-il, and I” gives readers around the world rare insight into North Korea through first-hand accounts from the man who holds the key to the fate of the country’s new regime.