What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of Genji, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the post-WWII atomic bombing literature by...

As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic security that survived even the boom and bust of the 1980s and 1990s, its literature came to embrace new subjects and styles and to reflect on the nation's changing relationship to other Asian countries and to the West. This volume will help instructors introduce students to novels, short stories, and manga that confront postwar Japanese experiences, including the suffering caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

Never stop fighting if you think you’ve found the one.I’m not fussy about the men I share my bed with, but my heart is another matter.Loving someone too much goes hand in hand with pain and suffering. It’s not something I want in my life.Then I meet him.Just one kiss and he finds his way in. It’s just a shame I don’t have the same effect on him.Can I convince him that he’s the only one for me despite what my reputation says?I...

It was only meant to be a one-night thing.I work hard and party harder. Women come and go and I’m happy to show them the door when their time is up.The moment my eyes land on her I’m captivated.There’s only one place she’s spending this New Year's Eve, in my bed.But what if she’s not like all the others, what if one night isn’t enough?I’m falling for a woman a stranger who’s too young for me but I can’t resist a taste.Fal...

Sleeping with the boss wasn't meant to be part of the promotion.People think I’m a suave businessman but they couldn’t be more wrong. The expensive suit is just covering the ugly scars of my past.I have no interest in love or making promises that I can’t keep.Until I find her in my hotel suite.She’s a broken mess and everything in me wants to protect her. To make her mine.I’m falling for my employee and she should be running far away...

Falling for your best friend's little sister is never going to be easy.She’s my best friend’s little sister. The one woman I’ve vowed never to touch.There’s just one problem.I’m in love with her. I always have been.Now she’s pregnant with my child and I’ve never been more terrified.My life isn’t as easy as everyone thinks and if I allow her in she’s going to learn all my well-kept secrets.She’s everything I want and need, but...

Can you fall in love from just a photograph?I’ve experienced the pain love can cause and I have no interest in it.Easy relationships and easier women are all I need.Until a shy brunette stops me in my tracks and makes me feel everything I told myself I never would.But will old habits ruin my chances from the very beginning or can I convince her I’m worthy of her?I’m falling for an innocent virgin and I’m powerless to stop.

Hate is easy. Love takes courage.My life is sweet. I work hard, party harder, surf whenever the hell I want and get any woman I desire. It can’t get any better.Then my worst enemy moves to town.I’ve hated her from as early as I can remember, and now she’s taunting me once again.Or tempting me?It seems the girl who plagued my younger years is now a woman I can’t get out of my head.I’m falling for my childhood enemy.Not...

She's mine, every last broken, beautiful bit of her.I’ve always been different. Always been the nice one. The misunderstood one.Everything changed when I found her, the woman I've been waiting for. Hoping for. The one.Then, she left.Now she's back, and she's nothing like I remember. She’s broken. Harboring dark secrets that beg to be exposed.And that's fine, because I've got some sordid secrets of my own.I’m going to prove I'...

Can lust at first sight turn into happily ever after?I’m a bad boy, or so everyone thinks. Women assume I’ll show them a good time and then walk away.But I want more. I want to find my queen.One look at her and I know she’s the one.Just when I think everything’s perfect, her fear takes her away from me.But when tragedy strikes there’s no way I’m passing up a second chance to make her mine.Is it possible to fall even harder fo...