Author: Merry White
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520271157
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White’s book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality , dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.

Author: TurtleMe
Publisher: TurtleMe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 878

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I had to accept that I wasn’t just Arthur Leywin anymore, and that I could no longer be limited by the circumstances of my birth. If I was going to escape, if I was going to go toe-to-toe with the most powerful beings in this world, I needed to push myself to my utmost limit...and then I needed to push even further. After nearly dying as a victim of his own strength, Arthur Leywin wakes to find himself far from the continent where he was born for the second time. Alone, broken, and with no way to tell his family he’s alive, Arthur must rebuild his strength to survive. As he ascends through an ancient dungeon filled with hostile beasts and devious trials, he discovers an ancient, absolute power - a power that will either ruin him or take him to new heights. But the dungeon won’t give up its knowledge easily. Before he can plunder its depths, Arthur must learn to untangle the threads of fate. He must band together with the unlikeliest of allies if he hopes to escape with his life.

Author: Hiroki Haruse
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975322495
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Marika Uruuno is just a normal girl in a normal world. She’ll fall in love normally, get married normally, and have a normal family— or that was the plan anyway. But when she suddenly wakes up in a version of reality filled only with women, she finds herself questioning what exactly “normal” means and why it’s so important to her. And as Mariko discovers something even more precious, she’s faced with a choice—will she find a way back to her previous life…or will she stay in this strange new world?

Author: Keishi Ayasato
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975357310
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Kaito Sena's life hasn't exactly been easy. Unfortunately for him, death isn't about to get any better. Summoned by none other than Elisabeth Le Fanu, the "Torture Princess," Kaito has to choose what he wants for his second life-be her butler, or die a long, painful death by torture. What is he to do but become her servant...and help her eliminate the fourteen ranked demons wreaking havoc in the world! See the original light novel come to life in this gritty manga adaptation!

Author: Okina Baba
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975336720
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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What would you do if you were reincarnated in a fantasy world as four spiders?

Author: Gilles Poitras
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1880656965
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Become an expert on cultural details commonly seen in Japanese animation, movies, comics and TV shows.

Author: Ui Kashima
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1642731501
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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The hit Pashiri na Boku to Koi-suru Bancho-san, in English for the first time! "Be mine." Unoki has always been bullied, and high school is no different. Right away, the top troublemaker, Boss Toramaru, makes him her personal errand boy. The only thing is...she thought she was asking him out?! So Toramaru is sure they're dating, while Unoki is convinced he's under her thumb. The stage is set for a rom-com of misunderstandings!

Author: Ian Condry
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822397552
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios—such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio Ghibli—Condry discusses how anime's fictional characters and worlds become platforms for collaborative creativity. He argues that the global success of Japanese animation has grown out of a collective social energy that operates across industries—including those that produce film, television, manga (comic books), and toys and other licensed merchandise—and connects fans to the creators of anime. For Condry, this collective social energy is the soul of anime.

Author: Yoru Sumino
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN: 1648277802
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Five high school classmates hold secrets close to their hearts--hidden talents, unspoken feelings, and buried pain. As they collide with each other on the path to growing up, they might jostle some of those secrets free. From Yoru Sumino, acclaimed author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and I Had That Same Dream Again comes a gentle, intriguing tale about love, life, and the things we leave unsaid.

Author: George Trombley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese language
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Japanese From Zero! is an innovative and integrated approach to learning Japanese that was developed by professional Japanese interpreter George Trombley, Yukari Takenaka and was continuously refined over eight years in the classroom by native Japanese professors. Using up-to-date and easy-to-grasp grammar, Japanese From Zero! is the perfect course for current students of Japanese as well as absolute beginners.