"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"When the Tokyo stock market crashes, adultery and industrial espionage lead to murder. Segawa had a good job as a stock market trader, but the "private" hedge fund he operated suffered big losses and he was fired. He is down and out when he is approached with an offer of highly paid work. How can he resist? He agrees to become an industrial spy, even when he discovers the target is his old schoolmate-who married Segawa's girlfriend-and ..."
"Chigiri Yamazaki is a divorced single mother who has returned to Tsurugi City with her 11 year old daughter to care for her ailing father--a famouse sword maker whose business has completely faltered. It falls upon Chigiri to keep dept collectors at bay.Go Imai, a freelance documentary maker, is on a business trip from Tokyo and has decided to stop by this little town of Tsurugi, where he had come to do a story on Chigiri's father 25 ye ..."
"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 ..."
China Watching(1stEdition) 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 ..."
"This volume contains a collection of works presented at the 1993 Nitric Oxide-Roles in Neuronal Communication and Neurotoxicity Symposium held in Shizuoka, Japan. It presents a current review on the roles of nitric oxide in the nervous system and contributes extensively to the scholarship in this field."
"The technique of ionized-cluster beam (ICB) deposition, the fundamentals of ICB technology, and technical applications of thin films produced by ICB deposition are presented in a single volume to give a coherent presentation to all those interested or working in the field. ICB processes are well characterized and reliable equipment is available. The films deposited are often superior to those deposited by either evaporation or sputterin ..."
Rouw Voor De Bruid(1stEdition) by Akimitsu Takagi Paperback, Published 1974 by Het Spectrum ISBN-13: 978-90-274-3690-0, ISBN: 90-274-3690-8
Origami for Playtime(1stEdition) by Satoshi Takagi Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 2004 by Japan Publications Trading ISBN-13: 978-4-88996-131-7, ISBN: 4-88996-131-3