Even so, the man tried to remain kind. Kanichirou Yanagi, a 19 year old judo athelte, heads to Tokyo with his father’s dying wish: “Defeat the Kodokan Judo doujo” etched in his heart. The streets of Meiji-era Tokyo, reeling from the wave of modernization and western influences. The wanderings of youth. Injustice and absurdity, contradictions and desire, who can truly understand what lies in a man’s heart?

(from ebookjapan): Adultery is a man's adventure, a woman's fashion...? Shotaro Ishinomori dramatically spins an omnibus of real-life love stories of "ten different couples," including a Marunouchi office worker and her section chief, a tutor and her mother, a PTA member and her teacher, and a mother's friend and her husband, all of whom are consumed by an illicit love affair, even though they know it is unforgivable! The book contains a total of 10 stories depicting the pleasures and perils of adultery, as well as a legal column for each drama. A true introduction to the study of adultery!

Itagi, a low-caste ninja, lived in the village in service to his master Tajuro. As his fate as a low-ranked shinobi, Itagi was never thanked, his wounds were never healed, and all the credit belonged to Tajuro... When the kunoichi Oboro, Tajuro's fiancee, tried to defend Itagi, Tajuro exacted terrible punishment on Itagi.... (Source: Sukima, translated)

This is a monumental collection of gambling short stories, written by Baron Yoshimoto, known for "Jukyouden," who personally researched the world of gamblers. The protagonist of the first story, "Kurikara Monmon," Togashi Buntaro, is a young man who comes to Tokyo from a mountain village in the Tohoku region, relying on his late father's war comrades. Buntaro takes refuge in the home of Yamada Jinjiro, a member of the Yamajin family, a moneylender in Asakusa. The story takes place on the 17th of the first month in 1924, right in the middle of the Asakusa Sanja Matsuri festival. Buntaro's father was a matagi (hunter), and during the Pacific War, he returned to Japan after learning Shorinji Kempo from a Chinese monk while serving in Manchuria. His skills were said to be at a master level, and he passed them on to his only son, Buntaro. Buntaro, who understands the essence of Shorinji Kempo, never uses his physical strength even after joining a yakuza family, and gradually finds himself at odds with the Yamajin family, who lack the spirit of a gambler...