New insights into the controversial lives of Prince and Princess Chichibu - two high-profile members of the Japanese imperial family. Their lives were lived both above and below ‘the clouds’, with the
Including her survival of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account by Anglo-American author, poet and musician Dorothy Britton of her long and amazingly varied life and care
New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter." Separated from her family in the confu
In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote northeastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island. Throughout the five-month jou
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars f
‘Boy’ Bouchier, who died in 1979, was both a remarkable ‘soldier’s soldier’ and a ‘diplomat’s diplomat’, combining battlefield courage and endurance with great leadership skills and a keen understandi
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars f
