Author: Arturo Silva
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 161172922X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 563
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Roberta, Lang and their friends experience the great Japanese city in all its manifestations to their inquiring, observing, and wandering minds as they banter over the details of a party, a film, Songs Common to Dreams, Tokyo’s history, the Names of Love. Tokio Whip is a distinctly stylistic Yamanote station-by-station tour-de-force discovering the City of Language, the City as Language.
Author: Jonathan Clements
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1909961590
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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With almost 13 million residents, Tokyo is now as much an icon of modernity as it is a city, with its neon-lit billboards, futuristic technology, and avant-garde fashion scene. But the long and fascinating history of Japan’s modern capital encompasses much, much more, and in An Armchair Traveller’s History of Tokyo, Jonathan Clements sketches the city’s amazing trajectory from its humble beginnings as a group of clearings in a forest on the Kanto plain all the way to its upcoming role as host of the 2020 Olympic Games. Tokyo, meaning “Eastern Capital,” has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Before that, it was a medieval outpost designed to keep watch over rich farmlands. But this seemingly unassuming geographical location ultimately led to its status as a supercity. Though the imperial court ruled Japan from the sleepy city of Kyoto, the landowners of the Kanto plain where Tokyo lies held the true wealth and power in Japan, which they eventually asserted in a series of bloody civil wars. The Tokyo region became the administrative center of Japan’s Shogun overlords and the site of a vibrant urban culture home to theaters, taverns, and brothels. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, it became Japan’s true capital, home to the emperors, the seat of government, and a site of rapid urban growth. Anyone who’s ever longed to look upon Mount Fuji, embody the bravery of the Samurai, or savor the world’s finest sushi will find themselves transported from the comfort of their armchair while reading Clements’s account of Tokyo.
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Pages : 428
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Pages : 888
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Author: Huzio Utinomi
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824884671
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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The most complete bibliography yet compiled of scientific references in both Japanese and Western languages pertaining to Micronesia. Organized by subjects into sections on botany, zoology, geology and mineralogy, limnology, oceanography, geophysics, medicine, anthropology and ethnology, and geography. Complete key to publications cited lists Japanese entries by their translated titles, with corresponding Romaji titles and publishers.
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Author: Francis McCullagh
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Category : Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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