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The star of "Violent Cop", "Sonatine" and "Hana-Bi" makes the revelation in a new book, "Kitano by Kitano", written by French journalist Michel Temmam

If I cannot think of anything else, when looking for a gift around the holidays, there is always a book that will bring something into someone's day.

If you’ve found Bam&Kero too simple, too boring or too short, I have a something new to read for you today. Aesop’s fables are well known all over the word and thus it comes as no surprise that his writings were also translated into Japanese language.

Are you a single, male anime fan who just hasn’t found that special someone? Sure you’ve thought about leaving your figures and body pillows behind for something a bit more 3D. But damn it all, that whole social interaction thing has just made that impossible. Well, speak your words of praise as obviously someone is looking out for you.

Raised in the tumult of Japan’s industrial powerhouse, the 11 men and women profiled in this book have all made the transition to sustainable, fulfilling lives. They are today artists, philosophers, and farmers who reside deep in the mountains of rural Japan.

China is unhappy. So much is clear as a book stating just this and recommending a confrontation with the west as a remedy has conquered the country’s bestseller lists and triggered a fierce online debate over China’s place in the world and its identity.

In Western countries, you'll find a Bible in your bedside drawer at almost every hotel.

If hotels in China were also to make one book available for guests, which one should it be?

"The first choice, I would say, is The Analects of Confucius," says Kong Jian, a middle-aged author who released two new books

This book presents a detailed examination of the elements in the Japanese system of government administration that inhibit the implementation of structural reforms. It explores why Japan's current systems of government administration of the political economy is too rigid and inward to accommodate structural reform.