Offering theory and practical insights, this publication brings together top-quality contributions by distinguished authors from research and practice as well as students from around the world to flesh out the role of Student Voice in Lesson Study (SVLS).The book provides a comprehensive up-to-date compilation of important issues around SVLS. Chapters guide readers to understand the rich contextual nature of student voice in education and Lesson Study. It includes teachers, their l...

The platelets may be the littlest members of the Cells at Work team, but they won't let that stop them! They've got the important job of closing wounds, which they do with pride...and a few hijinks along the way!

Honatsu just started her second year of high school, and already rumors are floating around that she's dating her childhood friend, Toma. While Honatsu isn't totally opposed to the idea, she's not sure what she feels for Toma can really be called love. But when aloof transfer student Shun Tachibana appears, the waters get even muddier... How does Shun connect to the past she can't remember? And can Honatsu decide what she truly wants, when her head and her heart are pulling her two differe...

Every older adult deserves meals that nourish the body without challenging it, and Japan's culinary tradition, with its gentle cooking methods and deep respect for ingredients, offers an ideal framework for eating well in the later years. Yet most resources on Japanese food either ignore the needs of aging bodies or assume unlimited time, energy, and access to specialty markets. This book bridges that gap, adapting the wisdom of Japan's longest-lived communities into meals that are soft, e...

One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books!The first widely available, comprehensive selection of New York's consummate outsider and underground poet, spanning a lifetime of work."Steve Dalachinsky is a poet of the real world in a time when reality is despised, dismissed, not understood or lied about."—Amiri Baraka"To write about the life of Steve Dalachinsky, one first has to decide ...

A sweeping novel set between 1938 and 2011, this multi-generational story follows the history of one Japanese family as they live through World War II, a host of family dramas, and, finally, the Fukushima disaster. This deeply felt, formally inventive, ambitious novel pulls heavily from the author's own life, including the death of her famous father, the writer Osamu Dazai.The Culling Times is a multi-generational saga of the Kitamura and Komori families t...

This volume aims to reread, reevaluate, and recreate Anaïs Nin as a writer. In so doing, it draws on the wealth of Japanese critique of Nin, notable for its distinctive tendency to approach both her life and work with a non-judgmental attitude. The study focuses on Nin in the 1930s when she lived in Paris, her birthplace and “second home,” in Gertrude Stein’s terminology, where she experienced numerous transformative encounters and underwent a radical process of becoming—a Deleuzean concep...

You've presented a perfect proposal, only to be met with polite nods, vague reassurances, and a maddening silence. Weeks pass, and your initiative stalls in a gray zone with no exit. This isn't a failure of your idea. It's a clash of decision-making cultures. This book decodes the sophisticated Japanese system of consensus building, giving you the tools to navigate and succeed within it.Discover the two interconnected mechanisms that have governed Japanese organizational decisions ...

You know mindfulness could help you, but the idea of finding 20 minutes to sit still feels like a cruel joke. You're too busy, too stressed, and the standard advice feels impossible to follow. This book is for you. It offers a different path entirely: a practical, zero-time approach to mindfulness rooted in two Japanese traditions.This book is not about adding more to your day. It's about bringing a different quality of attention to what's already there. Drawing on the ancient wisd...

You've tried the sticker charts, the rewards, and the consequences. You're still nagging, and the mess keeps returning. The problem isn't your child or your parenting; it's the system itself. This book introduces a radically different approach to household chores, one borrowed from the Japanese principles that transformed global manufacturing. It's a system designed to build capable, independent children, not just compliant ones.The 5S methodology—Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standar...

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reveri...

Though Nyango has proved just how useful sky magic is through his pawsitive attitude and unwavering determination, he’s still a long way off from being a full-fledged adventurer. The next step is to explore the possibilities of combining his bestowed attribute with a new form of power—seal magic!