2024-2025 Stone Bridge Press Catalog

A visual delight, this bestselling, award-winning book makes a great classroom resource and a wonderful study aid.

One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way.

This new edition marks the 20th anniversary of this important and influential book with new and updated materials.

A deeply eccentric novel about lives and connections—and a cat of course—in 1980s Tokyo: witty, offbeat, and strangely profound.

Twenty unusual tales from Japan collected by one of the greatest writers on the country.

The Gundam creator's own vision of his spectacularly successful cult franchise, in a new edition for hungry fans.

The true story of a half-Chinook, half-Scot adventurer who entered feudal Japan in 1848 and helped pave the way for its modernization.

The tale of English teacher Peter Meadowes, who flees to Kyoto for a summer vacation and finds himself lusting after every woman he sees…

Enjoy delicious Japanese food in some of Kyoto's most tucked-away and spectacular townhouses.

A cultural and personal journey into the famous sutra that teaches "form is emptiness; and emptiness is form."

A renowned designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world.

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.

An American student in 1970s Kyoto rambles among the city’s beauties and traditions, learning as he
goes.

Married to a Zen monk in training, an American woman in Japan chronicles her own year of growth and discovery.

Observations on the people, culture, and history of Japan from a long-time resident riding the rails along the less-traveled western coastline.

The unlikely history of early cross-cultural encounters between the West and Japan...