Shinobugawa depicts the emerging love of a student, identified only as I, for a young waitress named Shino
After winning big at the races, Torajiro wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century She worked in a Malaysian brothe
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn the one that the title refers to, the head quarters of a g