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Yasumoto Noboru completed three years of medical studies in Nagasaki where he learned the latest advances in Western medicine. He expects to be appointed to the position of a doctor for the shogunate. To his dismay, the ambitious young doctor will spend the next year as an apprentice doctor at a public charity clinic run by a crusty, old doctor nicknamed Red Beard. What lessons will Red Beard teach Noboru during this tumultuous year?The great film maker Akira Kurosawa translated these Red Beard stories to film in Akahige [Red Beard] (1965), starring Toshiro Mifune.

No one lives life alone.Edo, JapanEiji is a smart, good-looking, young man dedicated to mastering the craft of scroll mounting and framing. Sabu, neither handsome nor clever, is his best friend and fellow apprentice. The future looks bright for these friends until Eiji is accused of stealing and vanishes.

A pirate attack on a steamship to Japan plunges a globetrotting young man and a boy into a fight for survival on the sea and then on a mysterious island with unexpected inhabitants. Witness this tale of survival when electric lights and submarines defined cutting-edge technology. This island adventure was penned by Oshikawa Shunro, a father of Japanese science fiction, in the tradition of Jules Verne.

Place: Tsugaru in Aomori Prefecture, Japan Time: Spring 1944As World War II was coming to an end, Osamu Dazai (born Shuji Tsushima) returned to his home in the northern tip of Honshu, Japan on assignment from a publisher to travel and write about the part of Japan where he was born and raised.He writes with humor and warmth about old friends, the people (family and servants) who nurtured him, his obsession with crabs, and his worries over sake in times of rationing. He writes with pride about his home even as he learns about some of its customs and history for the first time. This travel journal is part travelogue, part history lesson, and part love story.Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was a twentieth century Japanese author. He is best known for the novels The Setting Sun and No Longer Human.

Kuroda Josui, a brilliant tactician of the Warring States era, is the envoy sent to the enemy's castle. One problem. He does not return.Traitor or Captive?Did this trusted vassal betray his lord or was he seized by the treacherous enemy lord? He knows the price of betrayal is to bring death to his family.Dead or Alive.The Kuroda vassals refuse to abandon him. Knowing their lord is not a traitor, they set off to find Kuroda Josui and bring him back if they can.An angry lord wants to deliver a severe blow to a backstabbing vassal. Loyal vassals seek to save their lord. What has fate decided for Kuroda Josui?

Warring States Era, JapanBetrayal Means WarAfter a peace accord is shattered, two great generals clash for the fourth time at Kawanakajima, the island between the rivers. The spiritual but angry Uesugi Kenshin, the Dragon of Echigo, confronts the more experienced Takeda Shingen, the Tiger of Kai.Who will triumph?Uesugi Kenshin is a historical novel told through the eyes of two rivals by Eiji Yoshikawa, a master of the historical novel.If you are curious about warcraft between two ingenious warlords, strategic surprises like in a movie by Akira Kurosawa, and the hearts and minds of warriors in combat, then you'll love this brilliant retelling of a famous battle by Eiji Yoshikawa.