Sorako lives an ordinary life. And this is an ordinary story. She has friends and family, loves her dog, thinks about life, and occasionally looks for work (kinda). These are the adventures into a typical girl’s life.
Examines various possible Selective Service System reforms, including a national criteria for classification of registrants; induction by random selection; and noncombat service for draftees who do not meet physical and mental standards for combat service.
This is a story about a girl, another girl, and a scared of heights boy. who meet due to a crash landing and are forced to become friends due to a responsibility that falls onto their shoulders.
Karin Kiritani is a third-year student at Tokyo Metropolitan Hoshizakura High School who yearns to go to Koshien. She is a pitcher on the girls' baseball team, but is beaten by Mirei Hiiragi in the spring tournament. Under the guidance of her childhood friend Daimon Rai, Karin tries to improve her pitching form and grip on the ball, but will she be able to beat Mirei?
This book examines how relationships between guardians and companion animals were challenged during a large-scale disaster: the tsunami of March 2011 and the following nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The author interrogates: 1) How did guardians and their companion animals survive the large disaster?; 2) Why was the relationship between guardians and their companion animals ignored during and after a disaster?; and 3) What structures and/or mechanisms shaped the outcomes for animals and their guardians? Through a critical realist framework, combined with a theoretical perspective developed by Roy Bhaskar and his colleagues, the author argues that despite the trivialization of companion animals by government officials, relationships between animals and guardians were often able to be maintained, in some cases through great pains by the guardians. While the notion of human-animal relationships in Japan has thus far been dominated by economic logic, the author reveals dynamics between guardians and companion animal transcend such structures, forging the concept of “bonding rights.”