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TANIGUCHI JIRO

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Aruku Hito

Nowadays, who takes his time to climb a tree in the middle of the city? To look at the birds, to play in the puddles after the rain? The walking man, through his lonely and silent strolls, makes us rediscover the happiness of wandering around...-- Manga

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Harukana Machi-E

On his way back from a business trip, the protagonist decides on a whim to take a train back to his old hometown. The moment he pays respects to his mother's grave in the transformed town, he is transported back to a summer when he was still in junior high school, only with all his middle-age consciousness, knowledge and abilities intact.On this journey across time, he understands for the first time the burdens born by his father, and his mother's tears. This is the kind of fantasy manga were made for, executed by an artist of great talent. This is a serious, delicate, and ultimately moving time travel variation.Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and discovers that he’s an 8th grader again, but with all of his adult memories intact.Can he, or should he try to change the decisions he made before? But more importantly, can he find his way back to the present day, or is he stuck in the past?

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Inu O Kau

Five short stories. The first one tells the death of an old dog, hence the title. The last one is a bit similar to a later work of the author, Kamigami no Itadaki.

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Tsuki No Yoru

From Manga-Sketchbook:14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology.To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro.

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Keiyaki No Ki

Published as the Hitobito Series (???????):- The Keyaki Tree (???)- The White Rocking Horse (????)- The Reunion (??)- My Brother’s Life (?????)- The Umbrella (??)- At the Art Gallery (?????)- Through the Forest (?????)- His Hometown (????)

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The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories

An anthology of six short stories;1) The Ice WandererSet in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic old man.2) White WildernessAlso related to Jack London - it's an adaptation of the early part of his novel White Fang, in which two men and their team of dogs are relentlessly pursued by a pack of wolves. 3) Our MountainsSet in 1920s Japan, the story follows an elderly hunter in his attempts to take vengeance on the enormous bear that killed his son. 4) Kaiyose-JimaA nostalgic tale in which a boy is sent to spend the summer with relatives on the coast after his mother is taken ill. 5) ShôkarôA mangaka looks back on the strange apartment building he lived in when he first came to Tokyo as an aspiring artist and the unusual people he met there. 6) Return To The SeaThe tale of a marine biologist working on the coast of Alaska who becomes obsessed with an elderly bowhead whale and the Inuit tales of a whale cemetery.

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