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Book The J A P  Chronicles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isabel Rose
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Release : 2006-05-09
  • ISBN : 0767918371
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The J A P Chronicles written by Isabel Rose and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reunited with her former bunkmates at the centennial of Willow Lake Camp, Ali Cohen, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker--and former camp outcast--plans to make a documentary about her former teenage tormentors at the Jewish girls' camp, but the reunion stirs up old regrets and long-stifled urges. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Book Jim and Jap Crow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew M. Briones
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2013-12-26
  • ISBN : 0691161933
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Jim and Jap Crow written by Matthew M. Briones and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a social worker in New York City. Kikuchi's diaries bear witness to a watershed era in American race relations, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy of American democracy. Jim and Jap Crow follows Kikuchi's personal odyssey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, everyday people on Chicago's South Side, and psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in America's history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegregation in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to Cold War paranoia. Jim and Jap Crow looks at Kikuchi's life and diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multiracial America.

Book Embracing Defeat

    Book Details:
  • Author : John W Dower
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2000-07-04
  • ISBN : 9780393320275
  • Pages : 692 pages

Download or read book Embracing Defeat written by John W Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.

Book Japan and the Japanese

Download or read book Japan and the Japanese written by Richard Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oriental Series  Japan  its history  arts  and literature

Download or read book Oriental Series Japan its history arts and literature written by Frank Brinkley and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When Tigers Fight

Download or read book When Tigers Fight written by Dick Wilson and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatre World 2005 2006  The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre

Download or read book Theatre World 2005 2006 The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre written by John Willis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 62nd year, 'Theatre World' provides a complete statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway theatre season. Each entry includes complete cast lists, producers and directors, authors and composers, opening dates, plot synopses, and biographical information.

Book Japan as it was and is

Download or read book Japan as it was and is written by Richard Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Japan beginning with the first recorded European contact.

Book Girl Culture  2 volumes

Download or read book Girl Culture 2 volumes written by Claudia Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has so much popular culture been produced about what it means to be a girl in today's society. From the first appearance of Nancy Drew in 1930, to Seventeen magazine in 1944 to the emergence of Bratz dolls in 2001, girl culture has been increasingly linked to popular culture and an escalating of commodities directed towards girls of all ages. Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh investigate the increasingly complex relationships, struggles, obsessions, and idols of American tween and teen girls who are growing up faster today than ever before. From pre-school to high school and beyond, Girl Culture tackles numerous hot-button issues, including the recent barrage of advertising geared toward very young girls emphasizing sexuality and extreme thinness. Nothing is off-limits: body image, peer pressure, cliques, gangs, and plastic surgery are among the over 250 in-depth entries highlighted. Comprehensive in its coverage of the twenty and twenty-first century trendsetters, fashion, literature, film, in-group rituals and hot-button issues that shape—and are shaped by—girl culture, this two-volume resource offers a wealth of information to help students, educators, and interested readers better understand the ongoing interplay between girls and mainstream culture.

Book Brief History of Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Clements
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2017-08-01
  • ISBN : 1462919340
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Brief History of Japan written by Jonathan Clements and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a divine sovereign. It was the terminus of the Silk Road, the furthest end of the known world, a fertile source of inspiration for European artists, and an enduring symbol of the mysterious East. In recent times, it has become a powerhouse of global industry, a nexus of popular culture, and a harbinger of post-industrial decline. With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests. Among the chapters in this Japanese history book are: The Way of the Gods: Prehistoric and Mythical Japan A Game of Thrones: Minamoto vs. Taira Time Warp: 200 Years of Isolation The Stench of Butter: Restoration and Modernization The New Breed: The Japanese Miracle

Book Chronicles of America Series

Download or read book Chronicles of America Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chronicles of America Series

Download or read book The Chronicles of America Series written by Harold Jacobs Howland and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chronicles of America Series

Download or read book The Chronicles of America Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yale Chronicles of America Series

Download or read book The Yale Chronicles of America Series written by Allen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chronicles of America Series  Great leaders in business and politics

Download or read book The Chronicles of America Series Great leaders in business and politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Easy Life in Kamusari

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shion Miura
  • Publisher : AmazonCrossing
  • Release : 2021-11-02
  • ISBN : 9781542027168
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Easy Life in Kamusari written by Shion Miura and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan's mountain way of life. Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is "take it easy." At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull. Yuki learns to fell trees and plant saplings. He begins to embrace local festivals, he's mesmerized by legends of the mountain, and he might be falling in love. In learning to respect the forest on Mt. Kamusari for its majestic qualities and its inexplicable secrets, Yuki starts to appreciate Kamusari's harmony with nature and its ancient traditions. In this warm and lively coming-of-age story, Miura transports us from the trappings of city life to the trials, mysteries, and delights of a mythical mountain forest.