Back when general stores were more common than they are today, NAMIYA Yลซji was the owner of one that also served as a letterbox for people seeking anonymous advice on all sorts of matters. Those times are long gone, but when three delinquents take shelter in the abandoned store, they discover connections to the past in the form of letters that would impact all their lives.
Don't be fooled by the English title - this too is a story in Japanese: A retelling of Edogawa Ranpo's ใไบบ้ๆค ๅญใin simple Japanese, providing several methods of support for first-time readers.
Yoshiki and Hikaru are both among the only children of their village in the mountains and grew up close. So it's unsurprising that it's only Yoshiki who notices that Hikaru hasn't been the same since he got lost in the woods last summer. The real Hikaru is dead and something has replaced him.
This collection has 5 essays called The Train Door, Fried Rice, Time is Money, Habits and The Police Academy. Each is two pages long and suitable for learners preparing for the N5.
Five years after the earth quake and tsunami of 11 March 2011, Yui Reiko welcomes a customer to her little barbershop who was out near the sea on that day. As Reiko cuts her hair, the customer tells her story.
Mii-chan's Mom is very busy today, but they don't have any milk left in the fridge. Someone needs to go buy it... Luckily, Mii-chan is old enough to help - it's time for her first errand alone.
A soul enters the afterlife, where it is told that it has no further to go from there. Whoever this soul was, it was responsible for something bad in their previous life and thus won't be reborn. But fortunately, the soul is given a second chance by being sent back to earth once more to continue to live the life of Kobayashi Makoto, who has just died by suicide.
Mayu likes to read romance and to draw manga. Just like the protagonists in her favourite romance shลjล manga, she would like to have a boyfriend (ใใใ). So she just starts drawing him.
Due to an incident in her childhood, Hinako is living a secluded life in a harbour town and often struggles with her will to live. The ocean she sees every day has been both threatening and eerily fascinating for her ever since until Shiori emerges from its depths to protect and eventually eat her.
Yลkai are Japanese spirits and haunting creatures from Japanese folklore that can be harmless as well as malicious. This booklet introduces you to several of them.
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