EN / Available
Playing Catch Between the Rice Fields
After retiring from professional baseball, he starts farming in Miyazaki. A short novel about tending fields, playing baseball with children, and the everyday exchanges that connect people.
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From reading to thinking.
One work, across languages and places. A press connecting reading with the quiet work of thought.
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EN / Available
A Glass of Water at the Café
The project keeps going. I’m taking a breather.
Quietly funny essays about work, everyday life, and what we notice when we set our tools down for a moment. Read a few pages at a café. Start wherever you like.
The aDaD Press credo
Widen your focus.
It’s okay if things get a little blurry.
フォーカスをひろげる。
少しボヤけてもいいから。
Look beyond a single perspective, toward the relationships and contexts around it. Our credo is an invitation to readers and to those who make books alike.
About aDaD Press
Books as room to think.
aDaD Press publishes in Japanese and English. Beyond the divide between print and digital, we consider how knowledge and ideas travel, and what remains after reading. A book is not only something to finish, but material with which to begin thinking.