Encore! Now Available in English, 318 Patchwork Patterns was first published in Japan in 2005. This fun and inspiring collection of 318 original patchwork and applique blocks from designer Kumiko Fuji
Biography/Autobiography/MemoirIn 1935, twenty-two-year-old Keiko Fukuda Shihan began her passage to become a judo master. As the only woman in the world to achieve the level of tenth dan, she blazed t
Biography/Autobiography/MemoirIn 1935, twenty-two-year-old Keiko Fukuda Shihan began her passage to become a judo master. As the only woman in the world to achieve the level of tenth dan, she blazed t
The French Revolution with zombies?! A slick, gender-bending twist on history!While en route from Austria to marry Louis XVI and become the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette’s carriage is intercepted
When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan's top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. Taro would wear the historic
In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan's coordinated capitalism and institutional stasis to challenge claims that the surge in women’s education and e