The fourth in a series of books taken from extremely ancient documentation finally revealed after being hidden by Japanese shrine priests for over 1500 years for fear of powerful warlords destroying or distorting them in order to exert power. The contents which have been confirmed by the authors' field research give a totally new and refreshing understanding of ancient history.

A considerable number of maps relating to round the world trips made by Heavenly Emperors in spaceships in an extremely ancient age are just a few of the things to be found among the Takeuchi Documents that have only recently come to light after being secretly buried underground and guarded for over 1500 years by sixty seven generations of superintendent priests in the Koso Kotai Jingu shrine in Japan.

The extraordinary truth about an extremely ancient era revealed in documentation that has only recently come to light after being secretly guarded for over 1500 years by 67 generations of priests from the Koso Kotai Jingu Shrine in Japan

Masafumi Akahira and Kei Takeuchi have collaborated in research on mathematical statistics for nearly thirty years and have published many articles and papers. This volume is a collection of their papers, some published in well-known and others in lesser-known journals. The papers cover various fields, but the main subject is the theory of estimation — asymptotic, non-regular, sequential, etc. All the papers are theoretical in nature, but have implications for applied problems.

An in-depth, 152-page art book that ventures into the challenges recorded throughout the production of the critically acclaimed, fan-adored Resident Evil 7: Biohazard! Relive the terror of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, the expertly crafted first-person survival horror game that altered the paradigm of Resident Evil titles. This art book includes undisclosed concept art and CG visuals closely arranged and coupled with detailed passages of the development team's progress on the game. Explore interviews, photo albums, a storyboard collection of in-game event scenes from opening to ending, and more in this succinctly packed chronicle of Resident Evil 7's development. Dark Horse Books and Capcom present Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Document Files, a perfect companion for fans of Resident Evil, and fully translated to English for the first time!

Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents deals with the legal practice in Greater Khorasan between the 4th and 8th centuries CE.

An enquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The material is critically examined from different perspectives, focussing on classical disciplines (history, linguistics, lexicography, philology, codicology and diplomacy).

The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers—has traditionally been condemned and is poorly understood. In an impressive examination of this intriguing aspect of medieval Japan, the author employs a wide range of previously neglected sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism in the capital rather than its cause. It is his contention that religious violence can be traced primarily to attempts by secular leaders to rearrange religious and political hierarchies to their own advantage, thereby leaving disfavored religious institutions to fend for their accustomed rights and status. In this context, divine demonstrations became the preferred negotiating tool for monastic complexes. For almost three centuries, such strategies allowed a handful of elite temples to maintain enough of an equilibrium to sustain and defend the old style of rulership even against the efforts of the Ashikaga Shogunate in the mid-fourteenth century. By acknowledging temples and monks as legitimate co-rulers, The Gates of Power provides a new synthesis of Japanese rulership from the late Heian (794–1185) to the early Muromachi (1336–1573) eras, offering a unique and comprehensive analysis that brings together the spheres of art, religion, ideas, and politics in medieval Japan.