Gleams From Japan

Author : S. Katsumata
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136654216
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gleams From Japan written by S. Katsumata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1937 this is a collection of articles written by the author under the pseudonym 'Waseda Eisaku' for the Japan Tourist Bureau's magazine over twenty five years. Intended to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of cultivated tourists from abroad by giving the insider's view of all things Japanese, it was published as a book just before the outbreak of World War II. Writing in the first person, Katsumata becomes both guide and confidante, writing about his own travel experiences in Japan and about Japanese customs and practices that interest him, such as traditional incense ceremonies, or fishing with rod and creel. This personal approach results in an unusual selection of topics and itineraries including tray landscapes, old Japanese clocks, hot springs, Japanese humour, sumo wrestling, pines in Japanese scenery, the Japanese sun flag and Buddhist temple bells. The author not only describes, but draws the reader into his own experiences - his joy on buying an antiquarian book he cannot really afford, the monotony he feels when travelling too long through snowy landscapes, the delight he takes in telling you that the best bait for carp fishing is sweet potato. Katsumata's unconventional choice of subjects and his informal and individualistic writing style make this a refreshingly different guide to Japan, and a valuable record of the period in which it was written.

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Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jozef Rogala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136639233
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English written by Jozef Rogala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.

Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Weigl
ISBN 13 : 9781489652126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book K Is for Kabuki written by Gloria Whelan and published by Weigl. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the letters of the alphabet with colorful illustrations and text that describes the culture and history of Japan.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Edmund Clingan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739171151
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight's Last Gleaming written by C. Edmund Clingan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger issue of defining hegemony and dominance has gained a greater importance over the last dozen years. Whether addressed explicitly or implicitly, it is the issue that lies behind the many recent books on international relations. The ongoing "financial crisis" has given these issues new urgency. This book provides new and startling evidence drawn from foreign exchange markets and capital flow statistics. They demonstrate that the problem dates back to the end of 2000 and has been driven by political events as much as structural economic issues. Combined with the development of a structural energy problem, the financial problem generated a global economic crisis that has not ended. In Twilight's Last Gleaming, Edmund Clingan uses economic measurements to establish measures of political and military power. Clingan examines the changes in these measurements over the last two hundred years to establish how international power relations have been affected by changes in economic power. He considers the factors that contribute to and detract from economic power. Using these quantitative measures, he provides consistent definitions of "dominance" and "hegemony" that should become commonly used and contribute to more precise discourse in history and political science. These tools uncover the deeper issues behind the current problems of the United States.

Author : Gordon Vanstone
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 191204983X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko written by Gordon Vanstone and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three years in Japan, Fred Buchanan is broke, unemployed and engaged in a telepathic turf war with a feral cat behind an Okinawa convenience store. Thus begins his metaphysical odyssey back to Tokyo. Along the way, symbols and sages materialize in the form of a two-fingered jazz musician, the faded tattoo on an ex-yakuza lover, an odd brood of internet cafe refugees, the kite flyer of Kabukicho and Yukie, an alluring hostess with strips of delicious thigh and strange power imbued in the etched eye on her fingernail. Charging through Shinjuku’s neon jungle, enveloped in a boozy, nicotine-stained haze, past and present collide as an empty orchestra croons a slow dance of people and place, memory and madness, loss and love. All the while, Fred struggles to be an agent of his destiny and not another ball bearing bouncing through the cosmic pachinko. Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko is told as a uniquely clever mix of Murakami-esque magical realism and gonzo Japan travelogue.

Author : Naoko Saito
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823283097
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gleam of Light written by Naoko Saito and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology and procedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the human condition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito reads Dewey’s idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey’s notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology.

Author : Christopher Noss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tohoku, the Scotland of Japan written by Christopher Noss and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan, the Official Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: