During the period of Japanese colonial rule, a young Korean boy, Yonghyun, is invited every summer to a royal residence in the mountains behind his village. The residence of one Count Tachibana. The peculiar Tachibana Sho is a complete mystery, as it seems he’s never left his mansion, not even once. But over the summers, Tachibana Sho and Yonghyun have made a strange but solid bond with each other. Now Yonghyun is devising a plan to help Sho escape his mansion but it won't be easy. Adults with their meddlesome ulterior motives and the giant mansion itself all present challenges to their idea. How will the two boys break free and what will they learn about each other...?
(from ebookjapan):Sawako Matsumoto works for Manhattan Trust, one of the largest banks in the United States. This Sawako has returned as the vice president of the Japan branch. Corporate competition between Japan and the U.S. unfolds in the banking industry. This best-selling work depicts the turbulent period of the Japanese economy in the 1980s. Winner of the Shogakukan Manga Award and the Grand Prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association Award. It has also been made into an Anime!---- **Won the 33rd Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 1987, which it shared with Ishinomori's other famous work, Hotel**- **As mentioned in the description, Manga Intro to the Japanese Economy Won the 17th Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize in 1988**
X [Sulky and Unhappy] "I swapped bodies with my mortal enemy, only to find out she's pregnant?!" Concubine Qiao, who was forced to run the ball for Lady Ning, is furious every day. What's even more outrageous is that this cunning and deceitful lady-in-waiting is secretly in love with me?
One day, when she enters the forest to secure food, she encounters a talking white crow. Then the crow turned into a beautiful young man. Asaka, who is hungry for contact, opens up to him and takes care of his time together. Elusive, he whispered words like suddenly trying to test her. It's a sweet attachment like a poison to eat
The direct sequel to Kento Ankokuden Cestvs, carrying on immediately from where the prequel left off.
This year the cultivation realm isn't having much of a good time, either. Everyone's under a ton of pressure; A bit of bipolar over here, a little pre-ascention anxiety over there, even the elders are going schitzophrenic due to all the intense training! A modern psychologist gets transmigrated to the most depressing of all sects into the body of Xun Cai, the senior disciple whose body yin and yang are all sorts of 'wrong', and begins to treat the OCD Brother Lin Cong and his fellow disciples. And so, filled with love, the daily life of a chilled out cultivator begins!
Qing'e, a chancellor's daughter, and Junhao, her former toy boy, are in love and are happy newlyweds. But on the night of their wedding, Wei Lingjun, Qing'e's ex-husband, outed Junhao as a rebel spy. An ongoing love triangle of three years will unfold, showing how their situation came to be
Seems like whatever happened to the people in ancient times also has something to do with us modern-day people.
A "what-if" alternate history in which the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) fight a desperate struggle against the Soviet Union after it launches a surprise invasion on Japan during heightened Cold War tensions.*This is the original story ("Tokyo Wars") as published in 1991, not the 2008 re-release under the name "Raid on Tokyo", though there are few differences to note other than the title.
The crown prince Christopher's fiancée (albeit only in name), Elianna, is a noble lady that spends all her time reading books. On one fateful day, Elianna finds out that the prince was apparently being affectionate with a noble lady. Finally, she thought, a girl who actually loves the prince has appeared! With what she thought she had learned in mind, Elianna began to prepare for the inevitable cancellation of her engagement… A romance and fantasy story full of the misunderstandings and resulting shenanigans of a book-loving noble lady starts here! ---When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher-her betrothed in name only-consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. What she doesn't realize is that this is merely a surface ripple-one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination!
Jiro Tenge (???? Tenge Jir??), one of the eldest sons of the moderately wealthy Tenge family, has become an agent working for the United States, and his secret murders are discovered by Ayako Tenge (???? Tenge Ayako?), his youngest sister. This problem is aggravated by her discovery of terrible incestuous affairs in her own family; the wife of her older brother is actually her mother, who has to frequently have sex with Ayako's father, the family patriarch Sakuemon. To hide these secrets, the family—under pressure from Sakuemon and his eldest son Ichiro—decides to keep Ayako locked up in the basement for the rest of her life. Despite the efforts of her mother and younger brother Shiro, she lives for nearly two dozen years under the family's house, while great political and social changes occur above her. Ayako eventually leaves the basement after growing into a beautiful and attractive woman, and seeks affection from others while remaining terrified of the outside world. This sets off a chain reaction of events which spells tragedy for the Tenge family.
The story follows antique store worker Imagawa, aging doctor Kuonji, and writer Sekiguchi, who are all fascinated by mysterious events happening in Hakone, including a series of murders of Buddhist monks and a little girl in a kimono who wanders through the mountains. Tesso no Ori is an adaptation of the fourth novel of Kyogoku Natsuhiko's Hyakki Yakou series.
