Former samurai Uedo Ushinosuke wonders in the streets of Tokyo during the time of Meiji restoration. Would he settle down during this changing time where samurai are no longer needed or fight for one last time for his pride as a samurai?

A story about Japanese tea.

The story of the Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul, which sank off the coast of Japan in 1890, and the endeavors Japanese sailors made to rescue survivors and send them home safely. "Teşekkür ederim" is Turkish for "thank you."

One night, the beautiful woman who owns the Aqua Plant Shop appeared before me. With the leaflet about looking for a part-time worker, in hand, I entered the shop. "I shall inform you about your employment," she said. "Do you have any place to stay? Is it okay if you sleep here and stay?" It was a chance encounter, they begin to love with each other, they think of each other, they continue to think of each other, and then they had to part ways...

Energy crisis, scarcity of resources, etc. Leads to its only logical conclusion: war between east and west.

The story of a girl, Kirara who wants to be a great sushi chef specializing in Edomae style sushi but is initially objected by her grandfather. Saddened by taste of sushi in a very famous Ginza sushi restaurant, she challenged the chef there and won. Later, her sick grandfather gave her his blessings and sent her to train under others.

Takumi Kogawa and Osamu Sugi from Northern Junior High School, Koji Saito from Southern Junior High School, Shigeru Miyazaki and Yukihiro Mimizo from Eastern Junior High School, and Honami Kondo and Sakurako Ebizuka from Takamachi Junior High School meet at the judo dan promotion meet in July of their final year in junior high. About half a year later, they all enrolled in Hamanako High School, where they met again in the same class. They immediately try to join the judo club, but there is no judo club at Hamanako High School, so Ryuko Kurata (3rd dan in kendo), who is also their homeroom teacher, is appointed as their advisor to start a new judo club. (Source: Wikipedia Japan, translated)

Hanako is a ghost who for some reason possesses toilets and can't go to heaven. However, she isn't much depressed by this fact, and keeps busy with a blog about her experiences and lots of encounters with living people and other ghosts, whom she helps to make it through to heaven.

A buddy working comedy about an angel and demon. (Source: Anime News Network)

This peaceful manga features the daily life of Fujimura Sachi and her dog Mozuku. Sachi also has a quirky mother, a father who wears glasses, and a little brother. Sachi spends a lot of time caring for and walking Mozuku, who is a very clever dog with interesting thoughts on his world and the humans that share it. (Source: MangaHelpers)

Publisher Hayakawa is celebrating its 70th anniversary with two manga anthology reprints. One collection is dedicated to mystery works while the other compiles sci-fi stories printed over the publisher's long career.