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bilingual book
VOICE
Lisa Morgan:text
CarolineParsons:Photo
ISBN:4309242685
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novels
INSTAL
Wataya Risa
ISBN:4309014372
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tanka
SARADA KINENBI
Tawara Machi
ISBN:4309004709
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comics
KOWLOON
ISBN:4309728030
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Special Features
Kawade Shobo Shinsha or "Kawade Shobo" as it often is popularly
called is one of the Japan's leading publishers of books. The firm was created
as a publishing house in 1886. The scope of our activities widened to the
literary arts and culture, and at present we offer publications in literature,
cultural social science, fine arts, popular science, reference book, children's
books, etc.
Especially in our literature sector, we have published several bestsellers
including Kensaku Shimagi's "Life Study"(1937), Makoto Oda's "Looking
Everything as possible" (1961), Atsushi Mori's "Gassan(Moon Mountain)"(1974),
Masahiro Mita's "Who am I?"(1977), Yasuo Tanaka's "Feel like
Christal"(1980), Amy Yamada's "Bed Time-Eyes" (1985), Machi
Tawara's "Salad Memorial Day"(1987).
Our quarterly literary magazine, "Bungei" has over the years been
instrumental in cultivating promising young novelists, giving birth to scores
of Japan's literary greats including the recipients of " The Akutagawa(Ryunosuke)
Award".
We also introduced a wide range of interesting, provocative books from abroad:
the edgy , groundbreaking work of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac Charles
Bukowski; internationally acclaimed fiction by James Joyce, Margritte Duras,
Alessandro Manzoni, Lawrence Durrell, Vladmir Nabokov, Jean Genet, Patrick
McGtath, Peter Mayle;the brilliant non-fiction by Lyall Watson, Diane Ackerman,
and Desmond Morris and so on. As for the completed collections by renowned
Japanese authors as well as from abroad, we have also been praised its quality.
Kawade Shobo publishes a wide variety of books totaling some 500 titles
every year in both originals and translations as well as hardcovers, paperbacks,
completed collections, etc..
Towards the 21st Century, we confirm our cooporate philosophy; to succeed
the culutural inheritance, to sow seeds that bear intelectual fruit and
to introduce foreign culuture. And this year as well we continue to do our
best to create new planning and walk together with many readers to look
ahead the future.
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