Download or read book A Country Girl Goes to a Tokyo School written by Briana Rafferty and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It sure isnt easy being a working-class girl attending to the most posh high school in town. Even more difficult is starting up a musical committee in a small classroom where every bit of music and the sound of birds carries. {Wouldnt want to flare up the aristocratic student bodys allergies.} Its a good thing that Hope Yamazaki is as tenacious and as full of moxy as they come. With her eye on the prize an adorable pet dog named Faith, Hope is prepared make friends and play some music with Lulu her pet bird by any means necessary.
Download or read book Japan Times Weekly Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isami s House written by Gail Lee Bernstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600s. As the story unfolds, she provides remarkable details and absorbing anecdotes about food, famines, peasant uprisings, agrarian values, marriage customs, child-rearing practices, divorces, and social networks. Isami's House describes the role of rural elites, the architecture of Japanese homes, the grooming of children for middle-class life in Tokyo, the experiences of the Japanese in Japan's wartime empire and on the homefront, the aftermath of the country's defeat, and, finally, the efforts of family members to rebuild their lives after the Occupation. The author's forty-year friendship with members of the family lends a unique intimacy to her portrayal of their history. Readers come away with an inside view of Japanese family life, a vivid picture of early modern and modern times, and a profound understanding of how villagers were transformed into urbanites and what was gained, and lost, in the process.
Download or read book The Little House written by Kyoko Nakajima and published by Darf Publishers Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little House is set in the early years of the Showa era (1926-89), when Japan's situation is becoming increasingly tense but has not yet fully immersed in a wartime footing. On the outskirts of Tokyo, near a station on a private train line, stands a modest European style house with a red, triangular shaped roof. There a woman named Taki has worked as a maidservant in the house and lived with its owners, the Hirai family. Now, near the end of her life, Taki is writing down in a notebook her nostalgic memories of the time spent living in the house. Her journal captures the refined middle-class life of the time from her gentle perspective. At the end of the novel, however, a startling final chapter is added. The chapter brings to light, after Taki's death, a fact not described in her notebook. This suddenly transforms the world that had been viewed through the lens of a nostalgic memoir, so that a dramatic, flesh-and-blood story takes shape. Nakajima manages to combine skillful dialogue with a dazzling ending. The result is a polished, masterful work fully deserving of the Naoki Prize.
Download or read book Missionary Stories written by Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nippon Modern written by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Devastated by the 1923 earthquake, Tokyo re-built itself in symbiosis with an image of modernity concocted by its own film studios. Nippon Modern renders that image, aspect after fascinating aspect, in sharp detail. Scores of films make up that image, a few resurrected in this volume for intense and delightful analysis. A sensitive viewer and an honest resourceful historian, Wada-Marciano lays out what she’s found in relation to other studies of this precious period, and she does so without hyperbole and without a glaring agenda. She makes you understand how, after Tokyo would again be devastated in 1945, these ‘modern’ films could become objects of nostalgia. Such is the care she gives her subject and such the fragility of that subject." —Dudley Andrew, Yale University "Nippon Modern will be recognized as one of the core books of Japanese film studies, a must-read for anyone interested in Japanese cinema. Because it brings Japanese cinema study into dialogue with important debates in history, area studies, and post colonial studies, it should have a wide and heterogeneous readership that will be attracted to its compelling analysis of important films and straightforward narration of biographies and studio history." —Abé Mark Nornes, University of Michigan Nippon Modern is the first intensive study of Japanese cinema in the 1920s and 1930s, a period in which the country’s film industry was at its most prolific and a time when cinema played a singular role in shaping Japanese modernity. During the interwar period, the signs of modernity were ubiquitous in Japan’s urban architecture, literature, fashion, advertising, popular music, and cinema. The reconstruction of Tokyo following the disastrous earthquake of 1923 high lighted the extent of this cultural transformation, and the film industry embraced the reconfigured space as an expression of the modern. Shochiku Kamata Film Studios (1920–1936), the focus of this study, was the only studio that continued filmmaking in Tokyo following the city’s complete destruction. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano points to the influence of the new urban culture in Shochiku’s interwar films, acclaimed as modan na eiga, or modern films, by and for Japanese. Wada-Marciano’s thought-provoking examinations illustrate the reciprocal relationship between cinema and Japan’s vernacular modernity—what Japanese modernity actually meant to Japanese. Her thorough and thoughtful analyses of dozens of films within the cultural contexts of Japan con tribute to the current inquiry into non-Western vernacular modernities.
Download or read book Leaving Japan written by Mike Millard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam. The technique is a narrative flow of short vignettes woven into longer chapters; the main strands are personal reflections and interviews.
Download or read book The Beginner s Guide to Manga and Anime written by Shuichiro Takeda and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become an anime and manga expert with this must-have beginner’s guide! It’s packed with compelling history and fascinating facts that both new and longtime fans won’t want to miss! Manga and anime are a whole lot more than just comics and animation from Japan. They are massive pop-culture phenomena reaching hundreds of millions of fans worldwide -- and they've had a huge impact on TV, movies, music, and more. But did you know that manga and anime have a rich and fascinating history that spans decades? The Beginner's Guide to Manga and Anime is a must-have book for both newcomers and longtime fans. From Osamu Tezuka to Hayao Miyazaki, the beginnings of shonen to the first anime films, this volume is packed with need-to-know info!
Download or read book Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan written by Asiatic Society of Japan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of transactions, v. 1-41 in v. 41.
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Download or read book Intense Years written by Gerald K. Letendre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the change from child to adolescent that takes place in the middle school years.
Download or read book Deep River written by Shūsaku Endō and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a religious vision combining Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance in the story of a group of Japanese tourists who converge at the Ganges River in India.
