"Love is like a storm.R to L (Japanese Style). Love is like a storm. Riko Sassoku is trying to lead a normal high school life when Ran Tachibana bursts into her classroom carrying a gun and telling her that her life is now his. Ran, the richest, most powerful 17-year-old in Japan wants her as his wife, and he's not taking no for an answer! If Ran can't capture her by five o'clock the next day, he'll give up on her, but he has all that mo ..."
"Intellectual property (IP) comprises not only the valuable economic assets of private firms, but also the social and cultural assets of society. The potential impact of intellectual property assets is so great that it is likely to have a considerable effect on national and international economic development in the future. Despite this, the area of IP education is relatively new to many academic institutions, and principles and methods i ..."
"Love is like a storm.Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Love is like a storm. Final Volume! Ran's romantic overtures are starting to work on Riko--but the ordinary life she's yearned for is not in the picture. A hotel heiress claiming to be Ran's fiancée is just the beginning of another dangerous storm of trouble..."
Africa in Data How Africa Is Rising and Where You Can Be a Part of It (Special Edition) by Denis Helpper and Sara Takagi (2018, Trade Paperback) by Takagi, Sara, and Helpper, Denis Paperback, Published 2018 by Independently Published, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-983373-33-6, ISBN: 1-983373-33-8
The Noh Mask Murder a classic Japanese locked-room mystery by Akimitsu Takagi, Jesse Kirkwood Paperback, 225 Pages, Published 2024 by Pushkin Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-965-5, ISBN: 1-78227-965-2
"A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizurui mansion in this prizewinning classic Japanese mystery The 1st book in English from Akimitsu Takagi since his “Clever, kinky, ..."
"If you read mysteries for insights into other cultures and different periods, this excellent translation of the first novel by Akimitsu Takagi, who became one of Japan's leading crime writers, is an eye-opener. In 1947 Toyko, the limbs of a murdered woman are discovered in a locked bathroom. Her torso--covered with intricately beautiful tattoos by her late father, a highly controversial artist--is missing. A doctor finds the body, and ..."
"Etsuko has fallen in love with a shy, studious lecturer at a university. But she has to tell her parents she's pregnant to force their agreement to her marriage. Their objection is to the rest of her fiance's family: his father was a war criminal; his deceased younger brother, a murderer. His only respectable relative is a research chemist who says he's too sick to come to the wedding. And then the groom is called away on the firs ..."
"After being fired from his job when the private hedge fund he managed was hit with heavy losses, Shiego Segawa is approached with an offer of highly paid work as an industrial spy. How could he say no? Soon he is assigned to investigate a chemical firm run by the husband of his former girlfriend. The goal: seduce the wife and steal an important chemical formula. But when the husband is murdered, Segawa finds himself the prime suspect. ..."
The Retreat from Race Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics by Dana Y. Takagi Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1993 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-1914-2, ISBN: 0-8135-1914-4
"“An excellent book. Takagi takes a very complex and sensitive subject—racial politics—and shows, through a careful analysis . . . that changes in the discourse about Asian American admissions have facilitated a 'retreat from race' in the area of affirmative action. . . . This book will appeal to an audience significantly wider than a typical academic one.”— David Karen, Bryn Mawr CollegeCharges by Asian Americans that the top universiti ..."
Devil Within, Vol. 1 by Ryo Takagi Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2007 by Go!Comi ISBN-13: 978-1-933617-22-0, ISBN: 1-933617-22-5
"Rion's convinced that men are devils and only little boys, angels. And just when she thinks she's found the boy of her dreams, she finds herself forced into an engagement to a trio of suitors! While fighting off their advances and trying to win over the heart of her reluctant young love, Tenshi, she discovers a shocking secret of the three... and something near-sinister about herself!"
"Biblical Multicultural Teams speaks to the heart of cultural misunderstanding- our childhood upbringing. Sheryl Takagi Silzer is able in this work to provide both an honest look at her own cross-cultural experience and an astute academic understanding of cross-cultural communication. We all work and function in a multicultural world. The advice and wisdom in Biblical Multicultural Teams will thus enable you to take a hard look at assum ..."
China Watching(1st Edition) Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States (Routledge Contemporary China Series) by David Shambaugh, Seiichiro Takagi, Robert F. Ash, Robert Ash Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-41397-8, ISBN: 0-415-41397-4
"China Watching analyzes the state of European, Japanese and American scholarship on China over the last decade. The international team of contributors explore the main subjects and trends in research being done on contemporary Chinese politics, economy, foreign affairs and security studies. They contrast the substance and conclusions of this research in Europe, Japan, and the United States, contributing to topics that are hotly debated ..."
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction(Updated) Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782–1865 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series) by Midori Takagi Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-2099-3, ISBN: 0-8139-2099-X
"RICHMOND WAS NOT only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy; it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Boasting ironworks, tobacco processing plants, and flour mills, the city by 1860 drew half of its male workforce from the local slave population. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction" examines this unusual urban labor system from 1782 until the end of the Civil War. Many urban bondsmen ..."
The Devil Within Vol. 1 (v. 1) by Ryo Takagi Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2007 by Go! Comi ISBN-13: 978-1-933617-44-2, ISBN: 1-933617-44-6
"Rion's convinced that men are devils and only little boys, angels. And just when she's found the boy of her dreams, she finds herself forced into an engagement to a trio of suitors! While fighting off their advances and trying to win over the heart of her reluctant young love, Tenshi, she discovers the shocking secret of the handsome trio...and something sinister about herself!"
"As the count-down to choosing a husband draws near, Rion gets to know the trio better -- whether she wants to or not! Their alternate forms threaten to take her by force, but she's still ardently devoted to her extremely young love, Tenshi. But if the perplexed Tenshi doesn’t figure out his feelings for her, it could mean the end of them all!"
The Trek East Mormonism Meets Japan, 1901-1968 by Shinji Takagi Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2016 by Greg Kofford Books ISBN-13: 978-1-58958-560-7, ISBN: 1-58958-560-7
"The Trek East represents Mormonism's ongoing search for a haven in Japan that began at the turn of the twentieth century. This effort to evangelize and grow in Japan occurred with the backdrop of three forces of history that had emerged in the previous century. First, with the aspirations of Manifest Destiny achieved in conquering the western frontier, the United States was becoming a Pacific military and economic power. Second, Japan w ..."
The Tattoo Murder by Akimitsu Takagi by Takagi, Akimitsu Softcover, Published 2022 by Pushkin Vertigo ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-828-3, ISBN: 1-78227-828-1
Bonsai The Complete Step-by-Step Guide on How to Cultivate and Care for Beginners by Takagi, Kitaro, Takagi, Kitaro Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2021 by Independently Published ISBN-13: , ISBN: