Book of Donmon Teith

In these stories, a university student stays in a KFC for five days straight; a young woman travels three hours only to eat sushi alone; a desperate wife tries

The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s

This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or "withdrawal"--a

Twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori—a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction�

In recent years the traditional approach to common ground as a body of information shared between participants of a communicative process has been challenged. T