NEW BOOKS AND ESSAYS

Hi everybody! We did not forget about you, but we have been very busy indeed. We just began a new publishing company called Shisei-do Publications and it has kept us too busy with no time for anything else. Sometimes not even time for eating!

Anyway, we are going to be publishing what we hope are interesting books on Japanese history, culture, and literature, including many old books about Japan that are no longer published but have lots of good information and some very interesting stories, etc.

Our first book coming out soon is The Annotated Bushido, by Inazo Nitobe, edited by H. Tokugawa. It will tell all about samurai philosophy and lots of things about samurai and Japanese history and culture. It was published in 1895 but the English in it is very hard to understand, even for me, so I have "translated" it to modern English and put in lots of illustrations.

Please visit us at http://360.yahoo.com/shiseido publications


Also, if you like to practice reading in English, we have published an essay on a great Japanese scholar and some Japanese history. HIs name is Shoin Yoshida and you can read this essay at:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11997930/A-Most-Audacious-Young-Man


Please visit and enjoy it. Soon there will be some even more interesting essays about interesting people in Japanese history.

As to English lessons - later this week there will be a nice and new lesson for everyone!

See you then!

-Prof. Panda, PhD.