Twenty five year old Tadashi Kimijima has never had a full-time job. Graduated late from a third-rate university, he makes his way in life through his part-time job as a mover. It's during his stint as a mover that Tadashi meets the lovely Kana, a talented and intelligent career women, and unexpecte[...]

HOW TO USE YOUR HUMAN ADVANTAGE TO OUTPERFORM ALGORITHMS IN THE OPTIONS MARKET If you're a value investor who wants to get your money into the lucrative options market, forget about day trading, chart patterns, and market timing. This systematic book lays out a path to long-term wealth by taking po[...]

Cute Tsukamoto Tenma is desperately trying to help juvenile delinquent classmate Harima Kenji win the girl of his dreams: Tenma's friend Mikoto. But when Tenma hears Kenji say 'I love you' to someone else, she begins to have serious doubts about kenji's loyalties. Now, in an abandoned school in the [...]

Harima Kenji has tried everything he can think of to attract his cute-but-dim classmate Tsukamoto Tenma. This time he's grown his beard to enormous lengths. But one snip of the scissors by wealthy beauty Sawachika Eri ruins everything! Can a delinquent punk and a stubborn, quick-to-anger rich girl e[...]

She is a second-year high school student with a single all-consuming question: will the boy she likes ever really notice her? He is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization. This title portrays high school as over-the-top comedy.[...]

Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Japanese grammar. It explores the complexities of the language thoroughly, filling many gaps left by previous textbooks.
Clear grammar points are put in context by examples from a range of Japanese media. The emphasis is fi[...]

Covers the fundamental topics together with advanced theories, including the EM algorithm, hidden Markov models, and queueing and loss systems.[...]

For the first time all the tanka in Akiko Yosano's 1901 book, Midaregami - Tangled Hair, have been translated into English. Each of the tanka has the original kanji version, a romaji version and the English so readers in both languages can appreciate the depth of Yosano's poetry. One of the reasons [...]

This is a familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this trailblazing book Japanese Anim[...]