Download or read book Famous Romanians in Japan written by Radu Șerban and published by ePublishers & Editura Coresi. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the centenary of the Romanian-Japanese diplomacy, I remember the years spent in Japan, 2012–2016 with the end of my diplomatic career achievements and a shadow of amnesia as far as a part of the bilateral relations history before the Second World War is concerned. The inertness of the last three decades kept quiet names and events worthy of a novel, which I try to bring back to light, through this book, after searches of almost four years. I give to the reader some of the unjustly forgotten pages, confining myself to the remarkable Romanian presences in Japan at that time. From Anatolie Tihai to Gheorghe Băgulescu, with the Xenopol interlude, a plethora of Romanian personalities experienced living in the archipelago, longer or shorter periods, recounting their missions and adventures, or delegating others to share them, as was the case of Prince Carol. Rich in events, the interval of bilateral history 1872–1943 is still waiting to develop under the layers of palimpsest. I hope that this volume will reproduce a fragment of the brilliance of this period and, especially, increase the interest of students and researchers for a topic that will become, in the coming years, useful for the Romanian-Japanese strategic dialogue, not only in the area of history and literature. In the latest bilateral anthologies, the names of some great Romanians from that period have been intently minimized. Each of them could be a novel hero through his biography, through his relating to the Japanese culture and civilization and, especially, through contributing to the popularity of Romania in the archipelago. During my documentation, I identified interwoven threads of the 14 heroes’ destinies, more or less known, some obvious, others just suspected. Xenopol and Timuș, for example, followed the same route from Iași to Tokyo, at the same time, but with different goals and different comfort, and they did not know each other. Bufnea, along with Găvănescul in various photographs, was charged by Cădere to repatriate the remains of the former ambassador, Xenopol. Prince Carol granted audience to Cădere to get a report on the repatriation of Romanian volunteers; Cornel Cozmuță appears among the Romanian volunteers repatriated through Japan, and his ex-wife, Otilia de Cozmuță, after documenting in Japan, introduced Brâncuși to Rodin. Why Brâncuși? To the pilgrim heroes through the archipelago a virtual presence is added, Constantin Brâncuși, imposed by the notoriety of his work in the Japanese artistic space like no other Romanian artist’s, even if he, personally, had never visited Japan. His disciple, Isamu Noguchi, managed to increase his notoriety, spreading sculptural reverberations in the artistic space of his country. I let myself be carried away in a parallel world. Gradually, as I wrote, I became Tihai, Assan, Ghika, etc. I got into character and, reconstituting the places visited, I tried to turn back the clock. The photographs of the era helped me, as well as the writings of those Romanians fascinated by the exoticism of Japan. In addition to the 14 personalities evoked in this volume, other Romanians who visited Japan before the Second World War can be named, including the plethora of diplomats, but I avoid detailed references to them, so as not to be suspected of using the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, it is worth mentioning two of the first occasional visitors to Japan at the end of the 19th century, Nicolae Russel and Iuliu Popper. It’s just that Russel was not a real Romanian, but a Russian, born Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovsky, and Popper lost his Romanian citizenship. Nonetheless, their incidental visits did not leave written records or photographs, but they remind us that their names appear in some studies, as the first Romanians to visit Japan. I hope I’m not mistaken if I place this book under the sign of the “ronin,” a word that in Japanese means “vagabond,” and in our country it has been translated as “wandering samurai” as well. Directly, Pope Pius XI had called Vladimir Ghika an “apostolic vagabond” because of his frequent trips abroad. All the Romanians in this book are vagabonds, in a positive sense, in one way or another. I would call them “ronins” for their courage and for their association with the Japanese audacity. Just as the ronins were fortuitously separated from their masters, some of these Romanians parted from their country, more or less fortuitously, and in addition to the courage of the ronins, they carry in them the symbol of a lasting harmony: Romania-Nippon, abbreviated RO-NI. Radu Șerban
Download or read book Moldova written by Marcel Mitrasca and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Cold War era behind us, the murky territorial questions on RomaniaOCOs northeastern border start to receive more attention. What are Moldova, Moldavia, Bessarabia, and Transdniestria; and how did they wind up suspended between Romania and Russia?"
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Download or read book Romanian Gymnastics written by Kurt W Treptow and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Nadia Comaneci captured the hearts of the world with her amazing performance at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, one that would change the sport of gymnastics forever, Romania has been known throughout the world for its remarkable success in the sport of gymnastics.This limited edition, full-color album presents the history of Romanian gymnastics from the founding of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation in 1906 to the Romanian women's team that won five consecutive world championship titles under coach Octavian Belu between 1994 and 2001. This book was originally published on the occasion of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation. On the 25th anniversary of its original publication, Romanian Gymnastics is being reissued to celebrate the Tokyo Olympic Games. The book profiles each member of the 1996 Romanian Women's Gymnastics team. This collector's item is a must for every gymnastics fan.
Download or read book A history of romanian oil vol I written by Gh. Buzatu and published by Elefant Online. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work represents a synthesis published and printed in two volumes (the 1st volume in 2002, the second one, in 2004) under the aegis of Mica Valahie Publishing House in Bucharest. Being elaborated on the basis of some documents discovered in the Romanian and foreign archives, the two volumes cover the period up to 1929 in the first volume and the period from 1929 to 2005 in the second one. The paper reveals the role and place of Romanian oil in the evolution of the national and worldwide history, especially during the World War between 1939 and 1945 and in the development of the so-called “cold war”. The book insists upon the prospects of the specific “black gold” evolution.In the addendum there are to be found some interesting documents and the complete bibliography of oil.
Download or read book World Famous Wars and Battles written by VIKAS. KHATRI and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2022 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cherry Blossom Rarely Smiles written by Ioana Lee and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cherry Blossom Rarely Smiles: An Impossible Love Story Spanning Decades, Continents and Defying Cultures By: Ioana Lee In this powerful memoir spanning decades, The Cherry Blossom Rarely Smiles shows the life of a young Romanian woman who grew up in a communist dictatorship, dreaming of the day she would travel and see the world. While studying Japanese and English, the young woman meets a sophisticated and wealthy man, a young Japanese aristocrat. A story full of love, dramatic misunderstandings, and failures, will Ioana overcome such challenges and find true love?
Download or read book Does Transnational Mobilization Work for Language Minorities written by André Michael Hein and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study scrutinizes the significance of transnational mobilization for language minorities, both with regard to their ability and their motivation to undertake such action. It is designed as interpretative case study on Romanian minorities in the post-communist countries of Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Hungary. The book concentrates on immobile and marginal groups outside the focus of international politics and research. It contributes to recent research on cosmopolitanism: only an in-depth study of actors' everyday reality can produce qualified claims on the tense relationship between local rootedness on the one hand and possibilities for international mobility on the other. This, in turn, is vital to assess the vigor of international processes such as globalization and European integration. (Series: Region - Nation - Europa - Vol. 75) [Subject: Sociology, European Studies, Minority Studies]
Download or read book The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi written by Susan Westhafer Furukawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular representations of the past are everywhere in Japan, from cell phone charms to manga, from television dramas to video games to young people dressed as their favorite historical figures hanging out in the hip Harajuku district. But how does this mass consumption of the past affect the way consumers think about history and what it means to be Japanese? By analyzing representations of the famous sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi in historical fiction based on Taikōki, the original biography of him, this book explores how and why Hideyoshi has had a continued and ever-changing presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan. The multiple fictionalized histories of Hideyoshi published as serial novels and novellas before, during, and after World War II demonstrate how imaginative re-presentations of Japan’s past have been used by various actors throughout the modern era. Using close reading of several novels and short stories as well as the analysis of various other texts and paratextual materials, Susan Furukawa discovers a Hideyoshi who is always changing to meet the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.
Download or read book Copyright and Popular Media written by T. Cvetkovski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copyright governance is in a state of flux because the boundaries between legal and illegal consumption have blurred. Trajce Cvetkovski interrogates the disorganizational effects of piracy and emerging technologies on the political economy of copyright in popular music, film and gaming industries.
Download or read book Romanians in Canada written by Eleanor Bujea and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civic Engagement Civil Society And Philanthropy in the USA Romanian Mexico written by Dr. Olga Magdalena Lazin and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Decentralized Globalization” cites analysis and data proving the effectiveness of all Free Trade Agreements, especially within NAFTA. It has done a world of good. California is perfectly intertwined with the Mexican economy; the balance struck being a perfect model for the rest of the World. The race for Free Trade agreements and elimination of tariff has started long time ago with the creation of the EU, and it works. Civic society keeps the government honest and clamors to take into account the non-governmental interest groups. E.g. to reform Constitutions. Too many countries will need to change from their judicial systems, from “guilty until proven innocent to “innocent until proven guilty”, which should be the norm in the twenty-first Century.
Download or read book A Romanian Rhapsody written by CECILIA BURCESCU with a Coda by Murry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maestro Sergiu Comissiona’s biography reveals facts about his happy childhood in a Jewish petit bourgeois family in Bucharest – then, “the little Paris of Eastern Europe”, his adolescence under the Nazi specter, and his youth in repressive communist times behind the Iron Curtain. His life changes from the closed horizons of communist Romania to the broad ones of the Western world when he immigrates to Israel, later settling in England, then Sweden and, finally, the United States. His career path, from an ensemble violinist to an internationally-renowned conductor, is followed chronologically and analytically, based on his own accounts, extended research, and revealing testimonials. The Maestro’s rationale of having his biography written was, in his own words, “for the Westerners to understand my deep attachment to my Romanian roots, for the Romanians to know about my struggle for artistic affirmation in the Western world, and mostly for young conductors to realize that through passion, patience and persistence – and by not committing suicide after the first failure – the dedicated commitment to the profession bears fruit.”
Download or read book Romania written by Tiberiu Oprea and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romania has a long and tumultuous past, with centuries spent under foreign domination. Throughout history, Romanians have had to fiercely defend their land, culture, and identity. Today, Romania is still struggling to emerge from setbacks caused by forty years of communism. From the rocky Carpathian mountains to the unique Muddy Volcanoes, from the rich traditions of Brasov to the pollution of Copsa Mica, and from Vlad Tepes to Nicolae Ceausescu, this book examines the history and culture that have combined to make Romania the robust nation it is today. Book jacket.
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Download or read book A history of romanian oil vol II written by Gh. Buzatu and published by Elefant Online. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work represents a synthesis published and printed in two volumes (the 1st volume in 2002, the second one, in 2004) under the aegis of Mica Valahie Publishing House in Bucharest. Being elaborated on the basis of some documents discovered in the Romanian and foreign archives, the two volumes cover the period up to 1929 in the first volume and the period from 1929 to 2005 in the second one. The paper reveals the role and place of Romanian oil in the evolution of the national and worldwide history, especially during the World War between 1939 and 1945 and in the development of the so-called “cold war”. The book insists upon the prospects of the specific “black gold” evolution.In the addendum there are to be found some interesting documents and the complete bibliography of oil.
