Author: Sadako Sawamura
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462901891
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Written near the end of Sadako Sawamura's remarkable life, My Asakusa (Watashi co Asakusa) is a charming collection of autobiographical essays by a truly self-made woman. Recalling Japan at a time of great political turmoil and rapid cultural change, Sawamura shares with us her vignettes of growing up in Asakusa—one of the last of the old downtown Shitamachi neighborhoods of incessantly modernizing Tokyo—and her keen insight into the characters of those who populated her world. Author Sadako Sawamura (1908-1996) was by turns a diligent youth who worked her way through a private secondary school as a tutor, a radical university scholarship student, a Communist youth league worker, a prisoner of conscience, and a star of Japanese theater, cinema, and television. She was beloved in Japan for her forthright convictions and her rare independence, which she expressed in interviews and essays. She is also the author of Kai-no-Uta (The Song of a Shell), which was subsequently produced as a television play.
Author: Heng Liu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1637078579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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After the return of the transcender, all sorts of otherworldly elders would collide within the shop. The person who destroyed a planet with a single punch could only obediently listen to the main character ...
Author: Ben Byrne
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 177089392X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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A vivid and powerful novel set in post-WWII Japan, Fireflies chronicles the lives of four interweaving characters navigating the war-torn streets of Tokyo during the American occupation. August 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruins. Satsuko Takara and her teenage brother, Hiroshi, have lost their parents, and each other, during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo five months before. Hal Lynch, a haunted US reconnaissance photographer, has now become a photojournalist in Japan, where he stumbles upon a shocking story, concealed in the aftermath of war, and is determined to bring it to light. And Osamu Maruki, a dissolute writer, and once Satsuko’s beloved, has returned from the South Pacific a broken and changed man. As these characters’ stories spin out and converge, the war-torn streets of Tokyo come alive in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic, brutal, yet beautiful, Fireflies powerfully portrays the shock, the struggles, and the choices that arise from the destruction of war.
Author: WAttention Co., Ltd.
Publisher: ゴマブックス株式会社
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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銀座でのショッピングやグルメを満喫できる英語のガイド本！ WAttention Tokyo VOL.10は銀座特集！ 銀座で体験できるグルメや、ショッピングの情報（英文）が満載です。 銀座エリアの他にも東京で味わえるグルメの紹介、秋葉原でのメイド カフェ体験や、ちょっと遠出して富士5合目を訪れるツアー情報など も掲載しています。また渋谷スタートで気軽に楽しめる東京半日散歩 などのうれしい情報も。 東京を旅行する外国人や、外国人の友達を東京案内するときに役立 つ一冊です。 ※一部を除いて、すべて英文です。 ※日本文化の魅力を世界に発信する「WAttention Tokyo」事業は東京都中小企業振興公社の推奨事業です。 This is the guide for people who want to enjoy shopping and delicious food in Ginza all by English! WAttention Tokyo VOL.1 is the special edition for Ginza!? It is full of English information all about Ginza. Besides, you can check the news about the other district’s famous food, the maid caf? in Akihabara or even the information how to get to the Mount Fuji. In addition, what about use half a day to walk around Tokyo from that famous Shibuya. This book will be useful for the foreigners taking a trip in Tokyo or people who have foreigner friends and want to introduce them Japan. ※「WAttention Tokyo」 works on promotion and spreading the charming points of Japanese culture. It is one of the recommend projects of Tokyo’s small and medium-sized enterprises corporation. 本?是?外国游客?撰的在?京?座?物、品?美食的英文指南?！WAttention Tokyo vol.1是?座??！??收?了在?座品?美食及?物的有利信息（英文）。除?座之外，?将??介??京其他地方的美食、秋叶原的女仆??、及稍?一点的探?富士山5合目的?光情?。更有从?谷出?，悠?舒?的?京半日游的信息。?于来?京游??光的外国游客来?，是不可多得的一本?光指南。 ※本?文字?英文（包含一部分日文）。 ※将日本文化推广到世界的「WAttention Tokyo」是?京都中小企?振?公社的推广事?。
Author: Keiko Fukuda
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556435041
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This book describes the history and importance of Ju No Kata—the science of what it takes to execute throws—to the study and practice of judo. It also serves as a semi autobiography of the author, Keiko Fukuda, who is the world's foremost authority on Ju No Kata. At the age of 90, she still practices her passion. Understanding Ju No Kata is essential for passing higher-rank tests and this book, imbued with Fukuda's wisdom, is comprehensive and definitive.
Author: John Burnham Schwartz
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307472426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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In this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy. When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, and controlled at every turn as she tries to navigate this mysterious, hermetic world, suffering a nervous breakdown after finally giving birth to a son. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with tragic consequences. Based on extensive research, The Commoner is a stunning novel about a brutally rarified and controlled existence, and the complex relationship between two isolated women who are truly understood only by each other.
Author: Sato Haruo
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824817046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Sato Haruo has been called one of the most representative writers of the Taisho era (1912-1926), a transitional period following Japan's monumental push toward modernization. Although he never identified himself as a modernist, Sato exhibited what some writers have identified as a characteristic of modernism: a complex net of contradictory impulses that embrace both the revolutionary and the conservative, revealing both an optimistic looking to the future and a pessimistic nostalgia for the past. Six stories of amazing diversity and two critical essays revealing the understated Japanese ideals of beauty make up this volume, all translated into English for the first time. Forming a sequel to the three stories published in Sato's The Sick Rose, these stories exhibit an extraordinary variety of themes and styles, ranging from poetic fairy tales to psychological portraits to who-done-it crime stories. The title story is a utopian dream of a better city, populated by ideal people, that vanishes in a mirage. Another tale portrays the loneliness of a man unsuccessful with women. A third embellishes a bare Basho haiku about the man next door. Here too are the dream ballad of a Chinese prince, the imaginary world of a mad Japanese artist in Paris, and the probing search for an opium-drugged murderer. Sato's critical essays that conclude this volume have their themes in an exploration of the sad beauty of impermanence, the nature of enlightenment, the awareness of self, the merging of the instant and the eternal, and the "self-indulgent, unrestrained beauty" of the Japanese language. This collection not only affords insights into the complexity of the work of a gifted writer, but also significantly broadens the perspective of the literary world of the Taisho period.
Author: Edogawa Rampo
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462900615
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders; and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoys the sordid "loves" of the women who sit on his handiwork. Lucid and packed with suspense, Edogawa Rampo's stories found in Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century. Mystery stories include: The Human Chair The Caterpillar Two Crippled Men The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture
Author: Hisashi Inoue
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857281461
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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The sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his past – in the mines, villages and ports of the region. The stranger’s hilarious, bawdy and touching narratives captivate the young man, but he begins to doubt their veracity. Finally, as the young man decides his own fate, the full truth about the stranger is revealed. ‘Tales from a Mountain Cave’ is a translation of Hisashi Inoue’s highly popular ‘Shinshaku Tono Monogatari’ (新釈遠野物語), set in the Kamaishi area of Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan. Kamaishi was devastated by the tsunami of March 2011, and royalties on sales of this book will be donated to post-tsunami community support projects.
Author: Frank Gibney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317459970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. "SENSO" provides the general reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry and its government. It is an invaluable index of Japanese public opinion about the war.
