store quality books about asia & the world homecatalogauthorsblogeventsaboutcontactsubscribestoreanime mangabusiness careerschildren sclassicscrafts origamiculture societydesign artfiction poetryfilm popular culturefood & drinklanguagelifestyle green livingreferencespirituality yogatravelsubmissions blog giveaway the osamu tezuka story michael palmer monday october 10 2016 attention manga anime and japanese culture and history fans we re giving away a copy of the recently published and highly acclaimed manga biography of osamu tezuka . if you are already a goodreads user then good for you simply enter below . if not head over to goodreads and sign up now for a chance to enter . read more media roundup michael palmer monday october 10 2016 the past couple of weeks have been filled with all sorts of interesting and important news stories . we ve put together a list of some of the top articles covering everything from the newest hit anime films to da fu to the controversial and literal cover up of the cultural revolution museum in china . check it all out below read more excerpt wednesday japanese girl at the siege of changchun how i survived china s wartime atrocity michael palmer wednesday october 05 2016 this week s excerpt comes from homare endo s poignant new memoir japanese girl at the siege of changchun in which she describes her childhood experience of a chinese atrocity in the late 1940s and breathes life into post war china japan relations . endo s aim writes the japan times is not to expose a forgotten scandal in china s history so much as to reconstruct the terrifying event she experienced as a child . imbued with both stark realism and poetic meditations this is her eyewitness at times haunting account of survival at all costs and of unspeakable scenes of barbarity that the chinese government today will not acknowledge . read more new releases view all new releases tokio whip by arturo silva a group of people walk across around and all over tokyo . they talk talk talk . japanese girl at the siege of changchun by homare endo ; translated by michael brase an unforgettable memoir of the horrors suffered by a japanese family trapped in changchun china at the end of ww2 the osamu tezuka story by toshio ban & tezuka productions frederik l. schodt translator a documentary manga biography of the influential artist and the birth and evolution of manga and anime in japan . foundations of chinese civilization vol . 1 by jing liu a fun way to learn about china in a visual informative comic style history 1 2 next featured titles view all best sellers basic patterns of chinese grammar by qin xue herzberg larry herzberg speak and write with confidence while avoiding common mistakes the four immigrants manga by henry yoshitaka kiyama the first english translation of the groundbreaking 1931 graphic novel kanji starter 1 by daiki kusuya a quick and simple way to deconstruct and demystify kanji . persona by naoki inose hiroaki sato contributor a critical biography of a modern japanese literary giant whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide . 1 2 next join the sbp mailing list catalog bookse booksnew releasesfeatured titlesdownload sbp catalog genres anime mangabusiness careerchildren sclassicscrafts origamiculture societydesign artfiction poetryfilm popular culturefood & drinklanguagelifestyle green livingreferencespirituality yogatravel general authorsblogeventsabout usprivacy policycontact sbpjoin the sbp mailing listsearch site stone bridge press 1393 solano avenue suite c albany ca 94706 510 524 8732 sbp stonebridge.com join us at facebook twitter pinterest instagram all rights reserved . 2015 stone bridge press an iamteejay production