Okuzono-san betrayed Fu?! And … there is a man in Kyoto who eases Fu’s broken heart and becomes a breath of fresh air in her life. The chief of the Kyoto branch (actually he’s good-looking and super rich!) proposes to her out of the blue! Meanwhile, Okuzono-san keeps playing the good guy role and is about to finally fall for a serious and canny female leopard, Tamaki!
A female leopard, Tamaki hunts her prey more seriously and starts closing in on Okuzono-san!! Fu and Okuzono-san began their long-distance relationship just a month ago but already Fu suspects him of cheating on her. Worried, Fu turns to the gods and goes to Mount Kurama to pray. On the mountain, she runs into a snowstorm and almost gets lost but a mysterious and super hot guy comes to her rescue! At the critical age of 29, Fu’s life sees a rapidly developing change of course?!!
An unexpected pitfall awaits Fu who is over the moon about her super extravagant dates with the son of the family with assets worth tens of billions of yen. Enjoji who is supposed to be the shogun of love is at the mercy of a rude man from Kansai region. Mizuho ends up having sex with the guy who is in love with Rio. Further away from the main streets of life, the Alices continue to stray off course...
Enjoji, who ran away from her own wedding, is reunited with Hiyama in Paris, where they reaffirm their love for each other. And Fu who's been lost, joins them ... Will Paris, holy city for shoppers, provide Fu a heart-pounding, blow-out shopping experience?! Packed with love, emotions, and shopping—and includes an extra story, “Shopping in Paris”!
Mizuho gets into a traffic accident! Fu and Rio rush to the hospital and learn that Mizuho is pregnant. Just as they’re determined to raise the child together, Fu is transferred to the company office in Kyoto! Her transfer notice was given by her boyfriend and boss, Okuzono-san, and means their separation is all but decided…! From this volume, it’s not just “Tokyo” Alice anymore! Before she turns 30 years old, Fu gets transferred out of the blue! Fu is now lost in Kyoto.
The day of her wedding arrives as Enjoji continues to lie about her love for Hiyama. Out of the blue, she gets an international call from Hiyama... Their story now moves to Paris. Will Enjoji and Hiyama be able to meet each other in the city of love? Also, Fu follows Enjoji to Paris but almost immediately gets lost on the road. Will she be all right...?
The shining sun, a blue ocean and bursting material desires☆ Fu and her friends land on Waikiki, a holy place for shoppers☆☆ Four childhood friends pick Hawaii for their first overseas trip together! Fu learns Okuzono-san has been in contact with his ex just before the trip. While the discovery makes her uneasy, Fu shops a lot and eats a lot… It’s a tremendously fun but at the same time, little sad Hawaiian shopping story♪
The reconstruction of identity in post World War II Japan after the trauma of war, defeat and occupation forms the subject of this latest volume in Brill's monograph series Japanese Studies Library. Closely examining the role of fiction produced during the Allied Occupation, Sharalyn Orbaugh begins with an examination of the rhetoric of wartime propaganda, and explores how elements of that rhetoric were redeployed postwar as authors produced fiction linked to the redefinition of what it means to be Japanese. Drawing on tools and methods from trauma studies, gender and race studies, and film and literary theory, the study traces important nodes in the construction and maintenance of discourses of identity through attention to writers' representations of the gaze, the body, language, and social performance. This book will be of interest to any student of the literary or cultural history of World War II and its aftermath. "Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation was awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007,"
The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers—has traditionally been condemned and is poorly understood. In an impressive examination of this intriguing aspect of medieval Japan, the author employs a wide range of previously neglected sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism in the capital rather than its cause. It is his contention that religious violence can be traced primarily to attempts by secular leaders to rearrange religious and political hierarchies to their own advantage, thereby leaving disfavored religious institutions to fend for their accustomed rights and status. In this context, divine demonstrations became the preferred negotiating tool for monastic complexes. For almost three centuries, such strategies allowed a handful of elite temples to maintain enough of an equilibrium to sustain and defend the old style of rulership even against the efforts of the Ashikaga Shogunate in the mid-fourteenth century. By acknowledging temples and monks as legitimate co-rulers, The Gates of Power provides a new synthesis of Japanese rulership from the late Heian (794–1185) to the early Muromachi (1336–1573) eras, offering a unique and comprehensive analysis that brings together the spheres of art, religion, ideas, and politics in medieval Japan.
