Chiaki Hasegawa is a multi-million selling singer-songwriter, but her career peak is a decade behind her. Now she lives like a caged bird, fighting to escape the iron grip of her manager, Masaaki Iida, who is desperate to resurrect her career, no matter what the cost. When she meets Ben Wilson, a British traveler running from his own problems, Chiaki begins to imagine a life beyond music. But Masaaki Iida will never allow it..... Author's Note: Stolen was previously published under the name of Chris Ward.

A lost boy. A lost girl. A dark secret. At first Miyu can't stand Jack, the spoiled delinquent from Britain sent to college in Japan to keep him out of trouble. Then her ailing father dies, leaving behind a mystery which turns everything she knew about herself on her head. Pushed into an uneasy alliance with Jack, together they travel from the seedy underbelly of Tokyo to the rice fields of Nagano, searching for the truth about Miyu’s mother, who abandoned her sixteen years before. Author's note: from 2014 to 2022 Broken was published under the name of Chris Ward.

Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data, Second Edition offers readers new ways to learn about subjects outside their specialties and provides authoritative background and tools for those whose primary source of information is journal articles. Encompassing currencies, payment methods, and computer communication protocols, digital currencies are growing in use and importance. The book's comprehensive view of the field covers history, technical, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax, and the regulatory environment. For those coming from different backgrounds with different questions in mind, this new edition is an essential starting point. - Discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations - Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies - Offers seven new chapters covering such topics as side chains, sharding, privacy protection and CBDC, Libra and the convergence of technology, and much more

In this clear and very readable introduction to Japanese law, J. Mark Ramseyer and Minoru Nakazato employ an economic approach to challenge commonly held ideas about the Japanese legal system. While many studies assume that Japanese law differs fundamentally from the law in the United States, this work shows the essential similarity between the two. Arguing against the idea that law plays only a trivial role in Japan or is culturally determined, the authors demonstrate that standard economic models go far to explain why Japanese law has the shape it does.

The Fire Planets Saga: A thrilling intergalactic space opera adventure featuring deadly aliens, wisecracking robots, space pirates and more from Chris Ward, author of the acclaimed science fiction series The Tube Riders and Tales of Crow. Intergalactic war is coming ... On the run from deadly mercenaries in the outer reachers of Trill System, Lianetta Jansen and her ragtag crew come across a distress signal from a stricken freighter. On investigation, they are drawn into a trap that will send them spiraling across the galaxy, battling with slave traders and facing off against immense invasion fleets, as they attempt to protect both their own lives and those of millions of innocent people. Fire Storm is the explosive follow up to Fire Fight, Chris Ward's warmly received space opera epic. Chris Ward is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including the dystopian Tube Riders series, and the YA Fantasy Endinfinium series.

Examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan.

Incorporating currencies, payment methods, and protocols that computers use to talk to each other, digital currencies are poised to grow in use and importance. The Handbook of Digital Currency gives readers a way to learn about subjects outside their specialties and provides authoritative background and tools for those whose primary source of information is journal articles. Taking a cross-country perspective, its comprehensive view of the field includes history, technicality, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax and regulatory environment. For those who come from different backgrounds with different questions in mind, The Handbook of Digital Currency is an essential starting point. Discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies Written for regulators, crime prevention units, tax authorities, entrepreneurs, micro-financiers, micro-payment businesses, cryptography experts, software developers, venture capitalists, hedge fund managers, hardware manufacturers, credit card providers, money changers, remittance service providers, exchanges, and academics Winner of the 2015 "Outstanding Business Reference Source" by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)