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Book When I was a Boy in Japan

Download or read book When I was a Boy in Japan written by Sakae Shioya and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When I was a Boy in Japan

Download or read book When I was a Boy in Japan written by Sakae Shioya and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When I Was a Boy in Japan  Classic Reprint

Download or read book When I Was a Boy in Japan Classic Reprint written by Sakae Shioya and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from When I Was a Boy in Japan English friends, and the purpose of this book is to tell some of the experiences which are common to most Japanese boys of the present time, and to give some account of the customs and manners belonging to their life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book When I Was a Boy in Japan

Download or read book When I Was a Boy in Japan written by Sakae Shioya and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I Was a Boy in Japan" by Sakae Shioya. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book A Boy Called H

Download or read book A Boy Called H written by Kappa Senoo and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fictionalized autobiography...recreates the boyhood years of the eponymous H or Hajime Senoh. The Senohs, a Kobe family of modest means, were distinguised by their Christian faith and their extensive contact with foreigners....Precocious, inquisitive, and irreverent, H came of age during the dark years of Japan's descent into the abyss of war [World War II] and was a middle-school student during the conflict. The 50 vignettes that comprise this book provide an accessible, unforgettable, and intimate introduction to the effects of the war upon Japanese family life, friendships, school and society." Libr J.

Book When I Was a Boy in Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sakae Shioya
  • Publisher : Theclassics.Us
  • Release : 2013-09
  • ISBN : 9781230409429
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book When I Was a Boy in Japan written by Sakae Shioya and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI IN THE SUBURBS A Novel Experiment--Removal--Our New House-- Angling--Tomo-chan's Visit. We were now to remove to the suburbs. Father got a better position with a firm quite far from our house, and it was thought expedient for us to do so for his convenience. There was one thing which made me dislike this change. And it was about Tomochan. We should be separated, and might not see each other so often; all the more so as we had grown to be quite intimate and congenial by this time and had great fun in indulging in some novel experiment now and then. This last was by no means of a scientific nature. Still we went at it with something of scientific spirit to see whether a certain innovation was applicable or not. Here is one such experiment we tried. Tomo-chan heard from one of her friends, whose sister recently came home from America, that in that enlightened country when a lady and a gentleman take a walk together, the latter offers his arm to the former, who, of course, never hesitates to take it. Tomo-chan thought it was a fine idea, and asked me if we might try it. Well, I had no objection if it were only dark enough to make the trial. So one evening, under the shade of cherry-trees, we hooked our arms. Our cumbersome sleeves were somewhat in the way, but still we got on famously. After that, whenever we were in the dark, a hint would come from Tomo-chan to walk in that fashion, and I was only glad to accept it. Curiously enough it was the girl who suggested it every time! Of course we were not uniformly successful. I well remember the evening of that memorable day of the total eclipse. My uncle's enthusiasm greatly abated as the event of the day passed, and as we alighted from the train and stood before a fruit-vender's...

Book Shipwrecked

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  • Author : Rhoda Blumberg
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 2003-01-07
  • ISBN : 9780613614580
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Shipwrecked written by Rhoda Blumberg and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, 14-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

Book A Japanese Boy

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  • Author : Shiukichi Shigemi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book A Japanese Boy written by Shiukichi Shigemi and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Japanese Boy by Himself is an essay written by Shukichi Shigemi when he was a student attending medical school at Yale University in 1889. It was written in English and published by a company in Connecticut, U.S.A. The description of just a common boy's daily life in a countryside contributed to cross-cultural understanding between the two countries at an early stage after the end of the Japanese isolation policy. His book sold well that he could pay for education with this publication to become a qualified doctor.

Book Tales of Idolized Boys

Download or read book Tales of Idolized Boys written by Sachi Schmidt-Hori and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts. Sachi Schmidt-Hori begins by delineating various dimensions of chigo (the chigo “title,” personal names, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religiosity) to show the complexity of this cultural construct—the chigo as a triply liminal figure who is neither male nor female, child nor adult, human nor deity. A modern reception history of chigo monogatari follows, revealing, not surprisingly, that the tales have often been interpreted through cultural paradigms rooted in historical moments and worldviews far removed from the original. From the 1950s to 1980s, research on chigo was hindered by widespread homophobic prejudice. More recently, aversion to the age gap in historical master-acolyte relations has prevented scholars from analyzing the religious and political messages underlying the genre. Schmidt-Hori’s work calls for a shift in the hermeneutic strategies applied to chigo and chigo monogatari and puts forth both a nuanced historicization of social constructs such as gender, sexuality, age, and agency, and a mode of reading propelled by curiosity and introspection.

Book A Boy of Old Japan

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  • Author : Robert Van Bergen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book A Boy of Old Japan written by Robert Van Bergen and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Boy of Old Japan

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  • Author : R. Van Bergen
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2023-11-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book A Boy of Old Japan written by R. Van Bergen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Boy of Old Japan" by R. Van Bergen. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Enemy Child

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  • Author : Andrea Warren
  • Publisher : Holiday House
  • Release : 2019-04-30
  • ISBN : 0823441512
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Enemy Child written by Andrea Warren and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1941 and ten-year-old Norman Mineta is a carefree fourth grader in San Jose, California, who loves baseball, hot dogs, and Cub Scouts. But when Japanese forces attack Pearl Harbor, Norm's world is turned upside down. Corecipient of The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award A Horn Book Best Book of the Year One by one, things that he and his Japanese American family took for granted are taken away. In a matter of months they, along with everyone else of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, are forced by the government to move to internment camps, leaving everything they have known behind. At the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming, Norm and his family live in one room in a tar paper barracks with no running water. There are lines for the communal bathroom, lines for the mess hall, and they live behind barbed wire and under the scrutiny of armed guards in watchtowers. Meticulously researched and informed by extensive interviews with Mineta himself, Enemy Child sheds light on a little-known subject of American history. Andrea Warren covers the history of early Asian immigration to the United States and provides historical context on the U.S. government's decision to imprison Japanese Americans alongside a deeply personal account of the sobering effects of that policy. Warren takes readers from sunny California to an isolated wartime prison camp and finally to the halls of Congress to tell the true story of a boy who rose from "enemy child" to a distinguished American statesman. Mineta was the first Asian mayor of a major city (San Jose) and was elected ten times to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he worked tirelessly to pass legislation, including the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. He also served as Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Transportation. He has had requests by other authors to write his biography, but this is the first time he has said yes because he wanted young readers to know the story of America's internment camps. Enemy Child includes more than ninety photos, many provided by Norm himself, chronicling his family history and his life. Extensive backmatter includes an Afterword, bibliography, research notes, and multimedia recommendations for further information on this important topic. A California Reading Association Eureka! Nonfiction Gold Award Winner Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award’s Children’s Reading Round Table Award for Children’s Nonfiction A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title A Junior Library Guild Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit

Book A Japanese Boy

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  • Author : Shigemi Shiukichi
  • Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-07-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book A Japanese Boy written by Shigemi Shiukichi and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " In "A Japanese Boy" by Shigemi Shiukichi, delve into the captivating story of a young boy named Takeshi as he navigates the complexities of growing up in Japan. Set against the backdrop of cultural traditions and societal expectations, this enlightening tale follows Takeshi's journey of self-discovery, friendship, and resilience. From a tender age, Takeshi grapples with the pressures of academic excellence and fulfilling familial responsibilities. As he navigates the Japanese education system and societal norms, he learns valuable lessons about perseverance, respect, and honor. Through the pages of "A Japanese Boy," Shigemi Shiukichi beautifully captures the essence of Japanese culture, weaving together the vibrancy of festivals, the beauty of nature, and the wisdom of ancient traditions. Readers will be immersed in the rich tapestry of Japanese life, gaining insights into the values that shape Takeshi's journey. As Takeshi encounters challenges, forms deep friendships, and discovers his passions, he learns to embrace his own identity while staying rooted in his cultural heritage. This poignant coming-of-age story celebrates the universal themes of self-acceptance, resilience, and the power of following one's dreams. Join Takeshi on his transformative quest as he navigates the intricacies of Japanese society, finding his place in a world that holds both tradition and the promise of personal growth."

Book A Boy Of Old Japan

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  • Author : Robert Van Bergen
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781020212963
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Boy Of Old Japan written by Robert Van Bergen and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1900, A Boy of Old Japan follows the adventures of a young boy in feudal Japan. With vivid descriptions of Japanese culture, landscapes, and traditions, this book will transport readers to a fascinating and long-gone era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book WE HEREBY REFUSE

Download or read book WE HEREBY REFUSE written by Frank Abe and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.

Book A Japanese Boy

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  • Author : Shiukichi Shigemi
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-23
  • ISBN : 9781318992119
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book A Japanese Boy written by Shiukichi Shigemi and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Boy and the Dog

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  • Author : Seishu Hase
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-11-15
  • ISBN : 0593300424
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The Boy and the Dog written by Seishu Hase and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An amazing, beautiful book . . . It shows how one dog’s dignified presence can bring connection and love to a fractured world.” ―Cat Warren, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dog Knows One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring novel about the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. Following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a young man in Japan finds a stray dog outside a convenience store. The dog’s tag says “Tamon,” a name evocative of the guardian deity of the north. The man decides to keep Tamon, becoming the first in a series of owners on the dog’s five-year journey to find his beloved first owner, Hikaru, a boy who has not spoken since the tsunami. An agent of fate, Tamon is a gift to everyone who welcomes him into their life. At once heartrending and heartwarming, intimate and panoramic, suspenseful and luminous--and deepened in its emotion by the author’s mastery of the gritty details and hardscrabble circumstances that define the lives of the various people who take Tamon in on his journey--this bestselling, award-winning novel weaves a feel-good tale of survival, resilience, and love beyond measure.