About this site

This site is designed to invite your vote on shinsho concerning what overseas people would like to read.

If you view from a global perspective, Japan has few differences in income and educational opportunities.

The literacy rate of Japanese is high, and reading is a common practice for many people, despite the need to understand a variety of readings for each of the more than 2,500 kanji it takes to read a newspaper.

Excluding comic books, there is one type where book scores increase greatly.

This is a category called shinsho.

More than 1,500 titles of shinsho are published annually, and the number tends to increase year by year. Shinsho occupy a large shelf area at bookstores and are loved by students, office workers, business managers, housewives
and the retired elderly.

The fields covered by shinsho are a wide variety of subjects including history, sociology, psychology and philosophy, not to mention political economy; and the authors are a wide range of experts in the covered fields, led by university professors.

But, as for the writing, it is normally plain and easy to understand.

Even foreigners who have lived in Japan for a long period and are fluent in Japanese conversation have limited knowledge of the charm of these shinsho. If there are shinsho that you are interested in through this site, we would like to sell them overseas.

So, we highly recommend that you vote for those that you have an interest in reading.

<Voting basis>

Please vote only for those shinsho which you would pay 2,000 yen to purchase if it would be translated.

Concerning those shinsho which have attracted more than 200 votes, we will negotiate with the publishing company and attempt to put out a translation.

We will keep you informed about the progress by sending mail to the e-mail address that you registered at the time of voting.

<Voting method>

* If this is your first time using this site Please initially sign-in according to the following.

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* Those who are using this for the second time or more Please log in to the member page.

After logging in, please search for books by title or author name.

Please click on the "VOTE" button for the shinsho which you would like to read.

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