This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed more than 300 showpiece animals throughout Japan well before U.S. air strikes were anticipated, with international comparisons of the effects of the war on zoos in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the human central nervous system (CNS) in the context of its many developmental disorders due to genetic, environmental and hypoxic/ischaemic causes. The book contains three general, introductory chapters in which an overview of the development of the human brain and spinal cord, a summary of mechanisms of development as obtained in experimental studies in various invertebrates and vertebrates, and an overview of the causes ...

Bento fever has recently swept across the West, fuelled not just by an interest in cute, decorative food, but by the desire for an economical, healthy approach to eating in these times of recession. A leading light in the popularization of bento has been Makiko Itoh, whose blog, Just Bento, boasts hundreds of thousands of subscribers, all of whom love her delicious recipes and practical bento-making tips.Now, for the first time, Itoh's expertise has been packaged in book form. ...

※このタイトルは伊藤操著『TOKYO失恋MAP』の英語翻訳Ver.です。※～東京の街を舞台に8人の日本人女性が織りなす恋の短編集～舞台は「東京」。西麻布、銀座、日本橋、青山、浅草、渋谷、六本木、羽田など東京の街で恋し、失い、それでも彼女たちは夢を見続けている。お酒の営業、ギャラリー・オーナー、広報会社経営者、編集者、占い師など様々な職業の彼女たちが、セクハラやLGBTQ、ストーカーなどにも向き合いながら紡ぐ恋の物語。カフェやレストランなど実在の店やファッション・ブランドが登場し、東京の魅力を味わう事ができます。東京という街は登場する女性たちの思い出が詰まった場所であり、彼女たちの心の地図に永遠に刻まれた失恋マップなのです。～The story of eight Japanese women in love in Tokyo～The stage is "Tokyo". 8 women fallen in love and lost in Nishiazabu, Ginza, Nihonbashi, A...

"Can't you have sex with me...? Even if I ask you to...?" She's willing to hide her true feelings to seduce her naive boss. Will her feelings ever reach him...?

It is 1942. Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Newly-arrived Eiko Kishimoto, a twenty-year-old, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence in the French Concession as a member of the community of the Occupying Power. Initially, her days are filled with high society lunches and dinners, race course and night club visits and open-air summer concerts, amidst an ebullient and remarkably cosmopolitan society that makes up Shanghai. But all is by no means what it seems. As...

This text provides a comprehensive re-examination of post-World War II Sino-Japanese relations, focusing notably on Chinese premier Zhou Enlai’s foreign policy toward Japan. It juxtaposes Zhou’s stance on issues which confront current bilateral relations — such as the “history issues” and the territorial dispute over the Senkaku (or Diaoyu) Islands — with the current Chinese foreign policy of President Xi Jinping. Through in-depth analysis of primary sources, including newly published writ...

"Can't you have sex with me...? Even if I ask you to...?" She's willing to hide her true feelings to seduce her naive boss. Will her feelings ever reach him...?

"Try to tell me how it feels inside." My childhood friend is teaching me how to have sex!? It's my first time and my body is so sensitive... It feels too good, I'll lose my mind...!

"Don't show me such an erotic expression to get me hard." Just the tip of his long, hard, rod was enough to fill me up...!

"Can't you have sex with me...? Even if I ask you to...?" She's willing to hide her true feelings to seduce her naive boss. Will her feelings ever reach him...?

"Can't you have sex with me...? Even if I ask you to...?" She's willing to hide her true feelings to seduce her naive boss. Will her feelings ever reach him...?