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Yoko Kawaguchi, "Kicha-jin kara katakiki: Words Traveling in Coffee Shops," a book I highly recommend to coffee lovers!

This is a book that should be read by many. It has an outstanding healing effect. This is a book that should be read not only by coffee lovers, but also by those who have never had the chance to visit such a store. I am sure it will make you want to go to a coffee shop. This is a great book filled with love for coffee shops. I highly recommend it!
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Kenichi Yoshida, "The Forensic Scientist's Mission: To Keep Human Death Alive" - Sudden death was surprisingly close to us.

In this book, we learn that we are exactly the ones who do not know when we will die, and that many people actually die from sudden death every year. I believe that this book plays a significant role in the coronary disaster. In this article, I would like to introduce the book and share my thoughts about death in our daily lives.
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The Dead and Spirituality: Reconsidering Modernity, edited by Fumibishi Sueki, How to Face Death Today in the Wake of the Corona Disaster

This book is very important because of the current moment in the Corona Disaster. How should we think about illness and death? How should we deal with invisible beings? Are we so blindly trusting in science and rationality that we have lost sight of what is important? This is a book that makes us think about such things.

Now our view of life and death is being questioned.
Diary of a Monk

Saburo Nagabe's "Communicative English Expression Methods" - The hottest recommended English teaching book that keeps selling out! I wish I had known about it earlier!

I saw a tweet that this book from Iwanami Shoten was selling unusually well. I was curious, so I took a peek and found that this book was an amazing one. It is a wonderful thing when a good book sells well. It will surely reflect on the English ability of the Japanese people, or rather on their cultural ability. I hope this book will spread more and more.