Thrashing Trash Into Trees! In a world of powerful celestial beings, an epic contest is being conducted to select the next king! Each Celestial selects a kid in junior high to be his champion and grants him a special power. The kids battle it out--losers are eliminated, and the winners are granted new talents! Seemingly ordinary Kosuke Ueki has been chosen to be a contender in the tournament. Granted the power to change trash into trees, Ueki has two disadvantages to overcome--one, he doesn't know he's a participant in the tournament, and two, how the heck can anyone win a battle with the power to turn trash into trees? -- VIZ Media

Ambush! The long-awaited moment has arrived: at last, Mori has finally figured out what her power is! Too bad it's not very useful in battle. Can Mori and her new power take on Memory, tactical genius and master of traps? If Ueki and his friends survive this round, they'll have to face Team Capucho--and a sneak attack from the ruthless Hanon! -- VIZ Media

All Quiet on the Ueki Front... Who knew these battles were just the first round? How many rounds are there, anyway?! With only three weeks to put together a five-person team for the second round, Ueki and best pal Ai are hard-pressed to choose fighters who not only compliment their strengths, but can be trusted. Fortunately, they've got a relaxing, uneventful period in which to consider their options, during which no completely unexpected incredibly significant development occurs...right? Right?! -- VIZ Media

Fierce battle competition, comedy, and an epic coming-of-age story--somehow Kosuke Ueki manages to remain true to himself through it all. A group of powerful beings called tenkaijin are holding a special tournament. The rules of the game--each tenkaijin selects a kid in junior high to be his champion and grants him a special power. The kids take each other on in heated battle, but if they hurt innocent bystanders, then they lose one of their natural-given abilities. Every time they win a battle, they gain a new ability. The ultimate winner of the tournament is granted any power of his choosing, and the tenkajin who he represents succeeds in becoming the next god. Kosuke Ueki has been chosen to fight in the tournament. His special power--the ability to turn garbage into trees. The King's messenger comes to our team supreme--Mori, Sano, Hideyoshi, and Rinko--to deliver unwelcome news about the next round of competition. Too bad they can't shoot him. Now it's a race against time as our friends hunt for hidden treasure in the Celestial World and battle wacky powers that are no joke--like the ability to turn puns into reality. Very punny--not!

The Japanese constitution as revised by General MacArthur in 1946, while generally regarded to be an outstanding basis for a liberal democracy, is at the same time widely considered to be—in its Japanese form—an document which is alien and incompatible with Japanese culture. Using both linguistics and historical data, Kyoto Inoue argues that despite the inclusion of alien concepts and ideas, this constitution is nonetheless fundamentally a Japanese document that can stand on its own. "This is an important book. . . . This is the most significant work on postwar Japanese constitutional history to appear in the West. It is highly instructive about the century-long process of cultural conflict in the evolution of government and society in modern Japan."—Thomas W. Burkman, Monumenta Nipponica

If You Can't Beat 'Em... Robert's 10, a powerful block of contestants led by notoriously cruel and vicious Robert Haydn, seems to be invincible. Unbelievably, Ueki accepts Robert's invitation to join the team! Could this mean that Ueki has forsaken his morals and sense of justice just to be with the winners?! -- VIZ Media

Fierce battle competition, comedy, and an epic coming-of-age story--somehow Kosuke Ueki manages to remain true to himself through it all. A group of powerful beings called tenkaijin are holding a special tournament. The rules of the game--each tenkaijin selects a kid in junior high to be his champion and grants him a special power. The kids take each other on in heated battle, but if they hurt innocent bystanders, then they lose one of their natural-given abilities. Every time they win a battle, they gain a new ability. The ultimate winner of the tournament is granted any power of his choosing, and the tenkajin who he represents succeeds in becoming the next god. Kosuke Ueki has been chosen to fight in the tournament. His special power--the ability to turn garbage into trees. Kosuke Ueki has vowed to take on the powerful Robert's 10 group! Ueki's has already eliminated seven of them, but now he's up against Taro Myojin, a contestant that has been granted two lethal powers--the power to turn whistles into laser beams and the power to turn cards into saws. Hey, isn't that against the rules?