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BUSINESS / RECORD

Weekend Trade (週末の商い) — Three Years of a Small Business

A record of three years of weekend-only trading, kept up without leaving the day job. Built from sales notebooks, receipts and AI interview audio, with neither the failures nor the numbers left out.

FROM THE CONTENTS

IntroStarting a business while keeping the job
Ch. 1It began with a single receipt
Ch. 2First stock, first mistake
Ch. 3The shape of a weekend-only shop
Ch. 4The numbers — the reality of ¥30,000 a month

MATERIALS

Three notebooks of sales and purchasing records, about 200 photos of receipts and ledgers, six sessions of AI interview audio, photos of the morning market and the shopfront.

FORMATS

Screen-reading PDFPrint-ready PDFEPUB

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TRAVEL

Walking Twenty Cities (二十の都市を歩く) — Essays and Photographs from Twenty Cities

Twenty cities on foot, in essays and photographs. Rather than the order they were visited, the book is rearranged into eight chapters by the kind of scene walking turns up.

FROM THE CONTENTS

Pref.Preface
Ch. 1Mornings at ports and markets
Ch. 2Hills and streetcars
Ch. 3Crossing the river
Ch. 4Cities of sand and stone

MATERIALS

Fourteen travel notebooks (fifteen years' worth), about 2,400 photos, a box of maps, ticket stubs and boarding passes, itinerary records.

FORMATS

Print-ready PDFScreen-reading PDF

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HOW-TO

Groundwork (段取りの技術) — How People Who Leave on Time Get Things Done

One person's working methods, gathered into a practical book. The source was a set of in-house study-group slides and voice memos recorded on the commute, reworked from spoken explanation into a read with real chapters.

FROM THE CONTENTS

IntroGroundwork is a skill, not a talent
Ch. 1Design the day in the first 30 minutes
Ch. 2Taking on a request — decided in the first five minutes
Ch. 3Shorter meetings — finish them before they start
Ch. 4Writing that prevents rework

MATERIALS

Three sets of in-house study-group slides (about 120 in all), about 40 voice memos recorded on the commute, sketch diagrams from a notebook, post-session questionnaires.

FORMATS

PDFEPUBAmazon package

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COOKING / MEMOIR

The Quiet Kitchen (厨房の手仕事) — Fifteen Years of Training, and a Place of His Own

A chef enters a small Japanese restaurant at eighteen and opens a place of his own at thirty-three. Fifteen years of training and the forty-eight recipes his hands learned, built as a two-part book. The English edition, redesigned from the same material, has its own sample page.

FROM THE CONTENTS (ENGLISH EDITION)

IntroWhat My Hands Remember
Ch. 1Eighteen, at the Bottom of the Kitchen
Ch. 2The Morning Broth
PrimerWhat Is Dashi? — A Short Primer
Ch. 3Knives and Whetstones

MATERIALS

Three handwritten recipe books and the kitchen's prep notes, about 300 photos of the kitchen and the dishes, eight sessions of AI interview audio, the plans and notes from opening the restaurant.

FORMATS

Print-ready PDFScreen-reading PDFEPUBEnglish edition

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RESEARCH & EXPERT / TRANSLATION

The Plasma Garden (プラズマの庭) — The Science of Making a Sun, a First Book

A researcher's introduction for general readers, written in English as The Plasma Garden and rebuilt for Japanese readers. No equations anywhere in it; the opening chapter is written fresh for this edition, and a glossary is added at the back.

FROM THE CONTENTS

Prol.To readers in Japan — at the garden gate
Ch. 1The fourth state of matter
Ch. 2Why the sun keeps burning
Ch. 3Why a hundred million degrees
Ch. 4The fence made of magnetic field

MATERIALS

The complete English manuscript, lecture slides and 24 figures, an AI interview with the author, the original edition's blurb and reviews.

FORMATS

Print-ready PDFEPUBAmazon package

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PHOTO BOOK

Picking Up Light (光を拾う)

Seventy-six frames edited down to forty-eight, built into a book that works through sequence and white space. Windows, water, back streets — not one special location among them. Text is kept to a minimum.

FROM THE CONTENTS

Pref.On light
IMorning windows
IIWater surface
IIIBack streets
IVCloth and shadow

MATERIALS

76 finished image files, shooting notes (date, place, how long the wait was), lists and cards from past exhibitions, voice memos about the work.

FORMATS

High-res print PDFHigh-res cover filesScreen-reading PDF

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ANNIVERSARY (COMPANY HISTORY)

The Ten-Year Chart (十年の航海図) — Tenth-Anniversary Volume, 2016–2026

The tenth-anniversary volume of a company of twenty-eight people. Ten years of newsletters and photographs, interviews with the founders and a survey of every employee, built on three pillars: the history, the photo pages, and the staff's own words.

FROM THE CONTENTS

Fore.From the harbour, ten years in
Ch. 1The founding days — an old warehouse rented by three
Ch. 2Ten years on a timeline, 2016–2026
Ch. 3The turning point — the year the biggest client left
Ch. 4A record of the work — the main products and sites

MATERIALS

Ten years of company newsletters (118 issues), order and accounting records and minutes, about 1,200 photos of the office, sites and products, a survey of all 28 employees, about four hours of interviews with the three founders.

FORMATS

Print (primary)Distributable PDF

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FAMILY HISTORY

The Kitchen Remembers (台所の記憶) — Seventy Years, as Told by My Mother

A daughter spent a year listening to her mother, past seventy, tell her life. The AI asked the questions, the daughter did the listening, and the recorder was always running in the kitchen.

FROM THE CONTENTS

IntroFrom my mother's kitchen (the daughter)
Ch. 1The house with a well and a clay stove
Ch. 2The wrapping cloth from her wedding day
Ch. 3Four children and a big pot of rice
Ch. 4At forty, going out to work

MATERIALS

Fourteen recordings made in the kitchen (20 minutes to an hour each), album photographs and her handwritten recipe notes, a floor plan of her childhood home that she drew herself.

FORMATS

Print (short run)PDFReprint-ready files

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CAREER ESSAY

Until the Day I Left (会社を出る日まで) — A Career Essay Tracing Ten Years to Independence

Ten years of diary entries, sifted for the days that turn out in hindsight to have been turning points, then set back in order. A career essay about the decade before going independent, not the day itself.

FROM THE CONTENTS

Pref.Preface
Ch. 1The posting — it started in a team I didn't want
Ch. 2The third-year wall, and a first mentor
Ch. 3Small wins get in the way of the next step
Ch. 4Night classes at thirty

MATERIALS

Ten years of diary-app entries (about 3,000), the notebooks and planners of the time, four sessions of AI interview audio, the draft of a farewell email.

FORMATS

EPUB (reflowable)PDF (four-six trim)

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LOCAL RECORD

A Record of the River and Its People (川と暮らしの記録) — Spoken Histories and Old Photographs of Life Along the River (Japanese edition)

A record of riverside life: eight narrators, ninety old photographs and the register of annual events, woven together along the course of the river's year. Its overseas editions appear in the cross-border examples below.

FROM THE CONTENTS

Pref.Preface — about this record
Ch. 1A year with the river — the calendar of events
Ch. 2When the ferry still ran — spoken history (1)
Ch. 3Washing places and the well — spoken history (2)
Ch. 4River-fishing tools — cast nets, weirs, eel traps

MATERIALS

About 14 hours of recorded spoken histories (eight narrators), about 240 old photographs (from the community hall and local families), the hall's local-history and annual-event records, notes taken at the events.

FORMATS

Print-ready PDF (B5, softcover)Distributable PDF

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Weekend Trade (週末の商い) — Three Years of a Small Business

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Walking Twenty Cities (二十の都市を歩く) — Essays and Photographs from Twenty Cities

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Groundwork (段取りの技術) — How People Who Leave on Time Get Things Done

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The Quiet Kitchen (厨房の手仕事) — Fifteen Years of Training, and a Place of His Own

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The Plasma Garden (プラズマの庭) — The Science of Making a Sun, a First Book

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Picking Up Light (光を拾う)

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The Ten-Year Chart (十年の航海図) — Tenth-Anniversary Volume, 2016–2026

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The Kitchen Remembers (台所の記憶) — Seventy Years, as Told by My Mother

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Until the Day I Left (会社を出る日まで) — A Career Essay Tracing Ten Years to Independence

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A Record of the River and Its People (川と暮らしの記録) — Spoken Histories and Old Photographs of Life Along the River (Japanese edition)

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