Foreword -- Preface -- Ganbatte! -- The great wave off Kanagawa : the art of carrying on -- Three years sitting on a rock -- A rolling stone gathers no moss -- The difficult and the impossible -- Sha... kan... kan, the value of patience -- Losing is winning -- The longest journeys begin with a first step -- The archer and the moon -- The ten ganbatte rules for entrepreneurs -- Jiro's dream : the perfection of the Shokunin -- To beat the crisis -- Kibō hope -- The man who planted trees -- Tama the cat -- Ganbatte and wabi sabi -- Yayoi Kusama -- The Maneki Neko's twin laws -- The most important muscle -- The ten ganbatte rules for writers -- Shuhari : the mastery of the takumis -- The world's longest-lasting companies -- The kaizen method -- Meditation : passing clouds -- Buddha under the tree -- Katana : aim for beauty -- The philosophy of karate -- Tennis : the court of mental toughness -- If you don't feel like exercising... ganbatte! -- The ten ganbatte rules for fitness -- Miyamoto Musashi : transform your mind into water -- Stoicism and ganbatte -- Your enemy is your best friend -- What cannot be seen, but can be felt -- The stake and the sprinter -- Team Hoyt -- Mentality of the marathon runner -- Get rid of the second arrow -- The long path to love -- The ten ganbatte rules for lasting love -- Akira Kurosawa : whatever it takes to attain perfection -- The summit of Mount Fuji -- Reinventing the wheel -- In Marco Polo's footsteps -- The pilgrims' route -- Joseph Merrick : the heroism of being human -- KŌAN -- Life as a work of art -- The journey to wisdom -- The ten ganbatte rules -- Epilogue.