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Be More Japan is a celebration of all things Japanese. You can take a look through popular sights and pick and choose what interests you to plan your perfect trip. Or take a trip through everything to get the full experience of Japan.

Whether you use Be more Japan as a travel guide or to help you learn more about the Japanese culture. Be More Japan helps you understand and experience the best of Japan, both at home and abroad.

For those who can't make the trip to Japan, or who want to carry on the experience when they return, this book also has useful tips and suggestions for how to bring Japanese culture to you, and places where you can see its influence around the world.

With this book you can:

-Learn about the traditional skills of the tea ceremony and calligraphy
-Dive into the captivating culture of Japan, with topics such as art, music, food, wellness and innovation
-Find details on topics such as transport, karaoke, ikigai, shopping and hot springs to help you make the most of your trip to Japan

Revised and updated, and with each page alive with facts, history, and inspiration, Be More Japan unlocks the secrets behind modern Japanese living - whether you're eating sushi in London or enjoying the cherry blossoms in San Francisco. And if you're dreaming of a future trip to Japan, this book will get you closer to your destination before you've even departed.

The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy.

A Penguin Classic

This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization - all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action.

The selections favor the pointed over the poignant, and the unknown over the familiar, with several new translations among previously unseen works that have been long overlooked on the shelf, buried in the archives, or languished unread in the Japanese language. The writings are presented chronologically so that readers can trace the continuum of events as the incarcerees experienced it.

The contributors span incarcerees, their children born in or soon after the camps, and their descendants who reflect on the long-term consequences of mass incarceration for themselves and the nation. Many of the voices are those of protest. Some are those of accommodation. All are authentic. Together they form an epic narrative with a singular vision of America's past, one with disturbing resonances with the American present.

A delightful supernatural comedy about a mother-daughter vampire pair!

In Shadowsville, a supernatural land that exists between this world and the next, there lives a pair of spooky vampires. Well, not that spooky--the beautiful Noss (the Nosferatu) and her adopted daughter Zakuro don't even suck human blood, since that's gross and mean. A juice-box equivalent sustains them as they frolic around their town shopping for anti-sun accessories, meeting up with other monster buddies, and supporting each other like a real mother and daughter...because blood is less important when you find a good substitute.

In this juicy yuri manga, the goody-goody high school girl Sakurai meets a lonely girl--and ends up entangled in a web of blackmail that might just lead to romance. It's hard to keep up with school when you can never say no to a devious classmate!

If you crave the latest yuri trending now in Japan, you need this Lonely Girl!

Ayaka is caught in a blackmail situation, obligating her to grant the new student Sora one request each day. The "requests" are surprisingly intimate, leaving Ayaka excited for more. Despite Sora's affectionate gestures, Ayaka feels insecure.

"Where is our relationship going?

Next challenge? A hot new transfer student.
A love triangle up ahead?

A goody two-shoes falls for a devil-may-care underachiever in an uproarious yuri rom-com!

Love level-up in progress... The third volume of the award-winning manga that inspired the anime My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999.

Akane's feelings for Yamada continue to grow as he proves to be a considerate and reliable guy on and offline, but she's starting to overthink everything she does around him.

When Akane and the guild members attend a cultural festival at Yamada's school, all the students think Akane is Yamada's girlfriend, which leads to an embarrassing misunderstanding.

Confusing matters, Yamada rushes to Akane's aid when she collapses with a fever. Is he just being considerate, as always, or could this be a sign of something more?

Volume 3 includes Chapters 20-30.

For families looking for an interactive reading for their bitty babes, this bilingual book creatively uses a guessing game format to engage readers in figuring out which favorite food is being steamed in the steamer, all while highlighting Chinese culture!

Use the clues to guess which food is steaming in the steamer!

Interactive books for children are so much fun. Foodie Detectives introduces children to various steamed Asian snacks and dishes in both English and Cantonese through a guessing game. Children and adults alike will be delighted to read the clues on the menus and try to guess which steamed food will appear when they turn the page. The book is full of eye-catching and vibrant pictures that improve observation skills, build vocabulary, and encourage reading.

Foodie Detectives squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as practicing using questions and making predictions or guesses, utilizing adjectives and descriptive phrases, and critical thinking in English and Cantonese.

Parents will adore this eye-catching bilingual Cantonese-English read due to its effortless integration of Chinese culture paired with the interactive game element that children love - guessing! The vibrant colors and the expressive faces in the artwork make learning so much fun for everyone!

For families looking for an engaging book introducing children to hot pot, a favorite interactive family meal. Bitty babes will learn all about the healthy ingredients and the steps to make the dish in two languages!

Swish, swish! Making the perfect hot pot meal is easy when you follow step-by-step directions!

Hot pot is one of the best interactive and enjoyable meals to share with family and friends. It's Time for Hot Pot is a bilingual English and Cantonese book that takes children through the steps of making a hot pot meal and all of the ingredients that make it delicious. Children and adults alike will be delighted to see their favorite ingredients, and possibly some new ingredients they want to try in the future, when they turn the page. The book is full of eye-catching and vibrant pictures that improve observation skills, build vocabulary, and encourage reading.

It's Time for Hot Pot squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as using time and order words, sequencing, and introducing a diagram on our non-fiction page in both English and Cantonese.

Parents will adore this eye-catching bilingual Cantonese-English read due to its effortless integration of Chinese culture paired with topic of everyone's favorite communal meal. (Not to mention the healthy variety of vegetables, proteins, and other ingredients that children will become familiar with by reading!) The vibrant colors and the expressive faces in the artwork make learning so much fun for everyone!

A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law as she wrestles with grief, loss, and--strangest of all--joy.

Shortly after her husband Levi's untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon frugality but her own mother wants Kyoko to celebrate her now husbandless life. Always beside her is Alex, who lives confidently, no matter the circumstance.

Four sections of vignettes reflect Kyoko's fluctuating emotional states--sometimes ugly, other times funny, but always uniquely hers. While freshly mourning Levi, Kyoko and Alex confront another death--that of Alex's pet betta fish. Kyoko and Bubbe take a road trip to a psychic and discover that Kyoko carries bad karma. On visits back to Japan, Kyoko and her mother clash over how best to connect Alex with his Japanese heritage, and as Alex enters his teenage years and brings his first girlfriend home, Kyoko lets her imagination run wild as she worries about teen pregnancy.

In this openhearted and surprising novel about the choices and relationships that sustain us, there are times where Kyoko is lonely but never alone and others in which she is alone but never lonely. Through these moments, she learns how much more there is to herself in the wake of total and unexpected upheaval. See: Loss. See Also: Love. is a testament to how grief isn't a linear process but is a spiraling awareness of the vast range of human emotion we experience every day.

A young technomancer teams up with a handsome thief to save her sister in this propulsive, magic-filled young adult fantasy that is perfect for fans of Gearbreakers and Iron Widow.

Adya wants nothing more than to be left alone. Content to be loyal to no one but herself in the isolated jungles of South India, she dreams only of finding her lost sister, Priya, and making enough money to take care of their family. It's too bad that her rare ability to wake electric machines--using the magic that wiped them out five centuries ago--also makes her a coveted political pawn. Everyone seems to believe that her technomancy can help them win the endless war for control over the magic's supernatural source.

These senseless power struggles mean little to Adya. But when her enemies dangle news of her sister before her, she's all too quick to leap at the chance to bring Priya home--even if it means teaming up with a rakish, disreputable thief in order to do it. With the threat of invasion looming ever larger on the horizon, Adya must reconcile the kind of person she is with the kind of person she wants to be and untangle the web of intrigue, conspiracy, and deceit that threatens to take all of India down with it.

A precocious girl makes it her mission to find out why the women in her family wear hijabs in this heartwarming yet funny picture book celebrating Muslim women, curious children, and family love.

Noor loves her mum and all the other hijabi women in her family but wonders why they wear headscarves. Is it to hide snacks for later? Or because they're super spies hiding their secret identities?

Full of curiosity, Noor sets out to find her answer, but her family are all busy and have no time to answer this important question. Just as Noor is ready to give up on her quest, her Ammu arrives home and knows just the thing to say to crack the case wide open.

Girl meets elk-girl--and chaos ensues!

No one knows Torako used to be a delinquent. All of her classmates only know her as the perfect student. But everything changes when Nokotan, a transfer student with antlers, enters her life. Antlers aren't the only thing strange about Nokotan. Her deer nose can sniff out Torako's secret past! Whether it's at school or the zoo, chaos follows this doe-eyed girl's every step. Torako has so many questions! Is Nokotan a deer, a girl, or something in-between?

An overworked salaryman and a mischievous cashier with a dual personality form an unexpected bond in this sweet-and-sour comedy!

As the end of the year approaches, Yamada feels blindsided by a coworker's claim that Sasaki is a married man! Naturally, misunderstandings ensue. Later, on Christmas Eve, Sasaki has a chance encounter with a super-shy supermarket employee. And as the new year begins, Sasaki receives a message that shakes up the smoking buddies' relationship again...

When a classmate finds out he's secretly a sentai star, Kaido's precious life as a regular high schooler is in danger of being stolen, and so's his heart, in this BL rom-com for fans of Hitorijime My Hero and Sasaki and Miyano!

After persevering through some of the most difficult challenges in their relationship, Honda and Kaido affirm their commitment to each other. Between overseas work trips, vacations with friends, and even meeting each other's families, they are ready to face the joys and obstacles life has for them--together. It's full steam ahead in this sweet conclusion!

FINAL VOLUME!