In contrast, Fatsia japonica has big glossy ... lighter green leaves can also be used. Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica) is usually seen in its variegated forms; berry-bearing female ...

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide ...