2024-2025 Stone Bridge Press Catalog

A documentary manga biography of the influential artist and the birth and evolution of manga and anime in Japan.

Who founded China? Who are the Chinese people? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time?

60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.

In this new collection, Richie once again demonstrates his mastery of the essay and his deep knowledge about Japan.

China's hottest literary genre brings together the traditional, the experimental, and the avant-garde.

How China became the China we know today, through war and societal transformation.

The ultimate guidebook to walking the streets of Tokyo that Japan lovers and the curious have been waiting for.

50 more must-see martial arts films.

The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence.

An erudite voyage through the details and customs of Japanese life.

This aptly named fiction anthology—tomo means “friend” in Japanese—is a true labor of friendship to benefit teens in Japan...

The first book-length collection by the most respected writer on anime and manga today.

Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.

A group of people walk across, around, and all over Tokyo. They talk, talk, talk.

The first-hand account of an intrepid woman's exploration of Japan's interior in 1878.

In detailing the affair between a garden designer and his client's wife, this stylistic Japanese novel explores the roots of passion.