Unfortunately, the kanji taught in most textbooks are not always those mostly commonly encountered in everyday situations. To fill this gap, a group of Japanese-language lecturers from the prestigious University of Tokyo have pooled their talents to create 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use, Volume II, a workbook that when used in tandem with Volume I teaches 500 kanji characters most frequently seen in daily life in Japan.

Humanity's blind arrogance has built a civilization that believes only in itself; however, our sense of security is only preserved by refusing to perceive the dark shadow-world lurking just beneath the surface of our own... Now, one man will be forced to confront this hidden world and discover the curse of immortality. What he finds will force him to embrace the demon world to find its humanity and his own...

Yakumo has finally gained the power to make him worthy to be Pai's guardian, but now she can't remember who she is! How can he help her to become human if she believes she already is one?

Yakumo was a regular guy who went to high school, but all that changes when he nearly runs down a strange innoncent looking girl named Pai. But appearances can be deceiving. Pai is really the last of the great immortal Sanjiyans and she's been seeking Yakumo!

Yakumo was an ordinary high-school student in Tokyo when he met an immortal girl named Pai, whose quest for humanity led them on a great adventure that has become a modern legend! Yakumo returns to Japan believing that he can resume his old life as a high-school student, ignoring Pai's warning that to do so will subject everyone he knows to the evils of hell itself!

Pai and Yakumo discover the existence of a statue that may help end their quest, but to obtain it they'll have to take on the dwellers in the dark, who need the statue to revive a dread demonic lord and bring about an inhuman kingdom of immortal evil!

Yakumo has been searching for Pai, the girl he loves, for years. When he finally finds her, she's in big trouble! Pai has forgotten all about her inhuman heritage and mystical powers, and an evil group of supernatural Puppet People are on the hunt for her! Can Yakumo use his new special attack moves to rescue Pai and restore her memories? Or will she run from him - and the truth - as well?

Pai's supernatural powers have returned, but not her memories. She discovers that her Sanjiyan, the monstrous source of her power, is on the loose and can only be controlled within her by the Claw of Shiva, a sorcerous artifact that the memory-challenged Pai just happens to have bagged and tossed into the trash!

Both the dashing relic-hunter Jake McDonald and the nefarious Choukai, are trying to get their mitts on a certain mystic incense burner. And when Choukai traps Pai within a sorcerous binding circle, Yakumo is torn by the fateful decision of whether or not to pay the artifact as ransom to free Pai and by doing so, dooming Pai's memories and his own chance of returning to his mortal existence.

Pai, the beautiful 300-year-old amnesiac mystic, and her companion-cum-immortal slave, Tokyo student Yakumo Fujii, may have found the clues they seek to help them discover the secrets of the Sacred Land. Joined by the dashing relic-hunter, Jake MacDonald, Yakumo and Pai discover an ancient temple that may hold the key to returning Pai and Yakumo to their human forms.

The return to Kunlun turns out not to be the heartfelt reunion Pai had hoped for, but could instead reveal her incredible journey to be only a ruse that could well release the evil Kaiyan Wang from imprisonment in the Sacred Land!

Rock's top stars pay tribute to the legendary guitarist Bo Diddley in a 1998 concert. Diddley is joined by Ron Wood, Mick Fleetwood, Chuck Negron, Kenny Jones, and Mitch Mitchell. You will also enjoy backstage interviews that give you an even closer look at this musical experience.