Stone Bridge recently released Design Japan: 50 Creative Years with the Good Design Awards, by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization. Tokiko Oba just reviewed it in The Daily Yomiuri, also looking at a new book from Kodansha International, Origins: The Creative Spark Behind Japan's Best Product Design.
Stone Bridge Press is an English-language publisher specializing in books about Asia. Founded in 1989 by publisher Peter Goodman, the Berkeley-based company has over 150 titles in print and has received numerous awards for publishing excellence, including recognition from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University, PEN Oakland, the Kiriyama Prize, Spirituality & Health magazine's Best Spiritual Books Awards, and the Benjamin Franklin Awards.