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A non-fiction brief history of Christmas and associated interesting problems. The author treated the subject as a simple historical event of his research object, so this book is not a religious book as its title might suggest. The first chapter focuses on discovering the origin of a Christmas celebration as a religious ritual. This simple task was involved finding answers to several important questions, such as when and where Jesus born? When and which church officials decided the date of Christmas? Did they select the correct date? If not, then what date and for what reason did they choose...

Nowadays we are afraid of direct terrorist attacks to the homeland United States by Islamic suicide bombers. The effectiveness of the systematic suicide attack was first demonstrated by Japanese fighters during the Pacific War. At that time, not only soldiers and sailors, but many civilians were willing to commit suicide. After the defeat of Japan, these people who had committed suicide attacks were disdained as victims of foolish wartime fever by self-proclaimed pacifist-defeatists. There was no serious study or discussion about volunteer-suicide attackers. To me, a person who survived the...

About This Book This is author's memoir, covering the period from spring of 1942 to the end of the same year. At that time, he was eleven years old boy and believed that it was Japan's most glorious period throughout 2600 years of the long Japanese history. The time was the early part of the Pacific War, and it corresponded to the darkest time of the United States in the modern time. A few months ago, the Japanese surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor destroyed a major part of the Pacific Fleet. Then Japanese Imperial Army occupied most of colonial territories of Western countries in Southeast...

Infection with antibiotic-resistant microbes, often referred as "super-bugs," in hospitals can be a common problem. A conventional solution to the problem is to find a new antibiotic. This solution simply accelerates an arms race between microbes and pharmaceutical companies which try to develop an effective antibiotic. We should search for a completely new approach to the problem. This book might suggest an alternative approach for the superbug problem. It describes the tragic experience of a student nurse, Betty, who performed the world's first fecal transplant. It is not well known to the...

Temporary Permanence is a collection of short stories based on the author's experience, even though all personal and place names are changed. Every story is entertaining and includes a surprise ending. This book is a potpourri of anecdotes worth remembering, useful information, emotionally stimulating episodes, ridiculously unrealistic comedy, sadly true incidents, mysteriously strange experiences, and tales of greedy people. However, most stories describe true human nature, often negative, egoistic, selfish and greedy, seen in myself, colleagues, or other respectable persons. Occasionally I...