Download or read book Kaori s Kindness Emma s Fascinating Journey through Japan written by D. Aravind and published by SparkzPress. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who doesn't love to travel and explore the world! In this inspiring book accompanied by colorful and stunning pictures, young readers will join Emma and her family on their unforgettable trip to Japan filled with cultural wonders, unexpected friendships, and delightful discoveries. From the bustling streets of Tokyo to the timeless beauty of Kyoto, Emma's exploration takes her to iconic landmarks like the Meiji Shrine and Kinkaku-ji Temple. Along the way, she encounters Kaori, a kind-hearted Japanese woman, whose wisdom and warmth guide Emma through the intricacies of Japanese culture. Together, they immerse themselves in the vibrant traditions of Japan, trying on elegant kimonos, indulging in mouthwatering street food, and even witnessing captivating performances. Through her journey, Emma discovers the power of kindness and the importance of embracing different cultures. The book will transport young readers to the Land of the Rising Sun, igniting their imaginations and fostering a sense of curiosity about the world. As they turn each page, children will be inspired to embark on their own explorations, armed with a newfound appreciation for the magic of travel. So, get ready to embark on a delightful voyage that will leave young hearts eager to explore the wonders of our world!

Download or read book The Book of Tokyo written by Hideo Furukawa and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s parks hides a darker motive… At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them. But Tokyo being the city it is, random encounters inevitably take place – a naïve book collector, mistaken for a French speaker, is drawn into a world he never knew existed; a woman seeking psychiatric help finds herself in a taxi with an older man wanting to share his own peculiar revelations; a depressed divorcee accepts an unexpected lunch invitation to try Thai food for the very first time… The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other people’s company. As one character puts it, ‘The world is full of delicious things, you know.’

Download or read book Seeing Tokyo written by 庄司かおり and published by Kodansha USA Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vast and narrow, teeming and lonely; futuristic, old, fast, mesmerising...This is a book that takes the reader on a journey through the bewildering sights of the city that inspired Blade Runner and Lost in Translation, a city of many contrasts. Vast & narrow, teeming & lonely; futuristic, old, fast, mesmerising...This is a book that takes the reader on a journey through the bewildering sights of the city that inspired Blade Runner and Lost in Translation, a city of many contrasts. In Parts 1 & 2, the secrets of the modern capital are unlocked district by district, from the hip

Download or read book Seaweed written by Kaori O'Connor and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some might be put off by its texture, aroma, or murky origins, but the fact of the matter is seaweed is one of the oldest human foods on earth. And prepared the right way, it can be absolutely delicious. Long a staple in Asian cuisines, seaweed has emerged on the global market as one of our new superfoods, a natural product that is highly sustainable and extraordinarily nutritious. Illuminating seaweed’s many benefits through a fascinating history of its culinary past, Kaori O’Connor tells a unique story that stretches along coastlines the world over. O’Connor introduces readers to some of the 10,000 kinds of seaweed that grow on our planet, demonstrating how seaweed is both one of the world’s last great renewable resources and a culinary treasure ready for discovery. Many of us think of seaweed as a forage food for the poor, but various kinds were often highly prized in ancient times as a delicacy reserved for kings and princes. And they ought to be prized: there are seaweeds that are twice as nutritious as kale and taste just like bacon—superfood, indeed. Offering recipes that range from the traditional to the contemporary—taking us from Asia to Europe to the Americas—O’Connor shows that sushi is just the beginning of the possibilities for this unique plant.

Download or read book Pineapple written by Kaori O'Connor and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet Charles Lamb described the pineapple as “too ravishing for moral taste . . . like lovers’ kisses she bites—she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from fierceness and insanity of her relish.” From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered it on a Caribbean island in 1493, the pineapple has seduced the world, becoming an object of passion and desire. Beloved by George Washington, a favorite of kings and aristocrats, the pineapple quickly achieved an elite status among fruits that it retains today. Kaori O’Connor tells the story of this culinary romance in Pineapple, an intriguing history of this luscious fruit. O’Connor follows the pineapple across time and cultures, exploring how it was first transported to Europe, where it could only be grown at great expense in hothouses. The pineapple was the ultimate status symbol, she reveals—London society hostesses would even pay extravagantly to rent a pineapple for a single evening to be the centerpiece of a party. O’Connor explains that the fruit remained a seasonal luxury for the rich until developments in shipping and refrigeration allowed it to be brought to the major markets in Europe and America, and she illustrates how canning processes—and the discovery of the pineapple’s ideal home in Hawaii—have made it available and affordable throughout the year. Packed with vivid illustrations and irresistible recipes from around the world, Pineapple will have everyone falling in love with this juicy tropical fruit.

Download or read book The Gods Lie written by Kaori Ozaki and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2016 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geek to Diva in 20 Seconds written by Kish Knight and published by Tintd Teen Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s timid Olivia, cynical Kaitlyn, and bold Tabitha ….. oops, Lydie, Kaori, and the gorgeous Camille, of course, back again. Strolling on the other side certainly has its consequences. Clearly, popularity isn’t all that it’s cracked to be, and Lydie was right: the alter egos are bad, bad, BAD! Especially since Kaori is falling in love….. with Camille’s boyfriend, and Camille herself is too busy to notice; she isn’t finished sneaking around with the other guy, the COLLEGE guy, the same one her mother disapproves of. And sweet, innocent, responsible Lydie? Well, she may be hiding the biggest secret of them all. ......Apparently, it’s pretty easy for a Geek to graduate to a Diva….that is, under the right circumstances.

Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Japanese Plays written by Yuko Kuwabara and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published alongside The Japan Foundation, this collection features five creative and bold plays by some of Japan's most prolific writers of contemporary theatre. Translated into English for the first time, these texts explore a wide range of themes from dystopian ideas of the future to touching domestic tragedies. Brought together in one volume, introduced by the authors and The Japan Foundation, this collection offers English language readers an unprecedented look at some of Japan's finest works of contemporary drama by writers from across the country. The plays include: The Bacchae Holstein Milk Cows by Satoko Ichihara, This play takes themes of the ancient Greek tragedy Bacchae by Euripides to examine various aspects of contemporary society, from love and sex, man and woman, intermixture of different species, discrimination and abuse, to artificial insemination, criticism of anthropocentricism and more. It was the winner of the 64th Kishida Drama Award. One Night by Yuko Kuwabara The setting is a small taxi company run out of the home of its owner in a country town. One night the mother, Koharu Inamura, decides to leave the home in order to protect her children from her husband's domestic violence, promising them that she will come back in 15 years. The play depicts the family's reunion after having to live with the burden of that one night's (hitoyo) incident and how they restarted their lives after it. Isn't Anyone Alive? by Shiro Maeda This laid back, absurdist work examines death through a goofy lens. In the play, strange urban legends abound in a university hospital where young people die one after another, all with mobile phones in their hands. The Sun by Tomohiro Maekawa Depicts young people torn apart in a near future setting where humanity has split into two forms: Nox humans who can only go out at night, and Curios, the original type of humans that can live under the sun. Carcass by Takuya Yokoyama This play takes its name from the Japanese word for dressed carcasses of beef and pork that have been halved along the backbone for meat . It deals with the dignity of being alive as seen through the lives of workers in the meat industry based on interviews and research. It won the Japan Playwrights Association's 15th New Playwright Award in 2009.

Download or read book The Linguistics of Olfaction written by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists.

Download or read book Pan Suki written by Hahn Ritt and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pan Suki: An Epic Novel Based on True Events By: Hahn Ritt Pan Suki is the story of the bitter emotional and abusive struggle of an individual who travels from childhood to adulthood. His childhood is spent in an unusual and sometimes strange environment that has been forced upon him and his family because of the philosophical adaption, economical crisis of the time and the start of World War II. The attack by the Japanese of the Hawaiian Islands exposes him and his relatives to a shocking revelation of who they are. This novel is based on true events and is filled with life’s adversities, intimate romances, the breathtaking drama of combat, the complexities of choices, and Japanese words and phrases and cultural traditions that place the reader in a literary illustrated environment along with its characters.

Download or read book Strawberry Panic Light Novel Vol 2 written by Sakurako Kimino and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her name is Kusanagi Makoto, and it is up to this petite, yet charismatic girl to save the three schools from a crisis caused by the Étoile Competition. But could her sudden appearance cause a rift between Nagisa and Shizuma? Follow the whirlwind of crushes, alliances, betrayals, and secret plots in this second novel of the must-read yuri romance series--Strawberry Panic!

Download or read book Arifureta From Commonplace to World s Strongest Volume 2 written by Ryo Shirakome and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being summoned to a new world and thrown down into the depths of hell, Hajime Nagumo met Yue and together they conquered the Great Orcus Labyrinth. The pair was planning on taking it easy on the surface for a little bit, but a meeting with the bunny girl Shia Haulia throws a wrench into those plans. She has the peculiar power to see the future, and according to her, Hajime's the one saving her family in her visions! Hajime was planning on refusing, but it appears she might be able to help him on his quest to return home. And so, the adventure continues in Reisen Gorge.

Download or read book Tales Of The Garcia Clan Present Ronin written by Bernard L. Garcia and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family who has been at war with their sworn rivals for years. Each battle they have fought they have lost a lot of loved ones. Four brothers who have fought to keep each other alive. In this story three brothers parish in this war, leaving one brother to sur vive and fight so he can avenge his fallen loved ones and restore honor to his family. In order for him to win he would need help from some friends that have survived this war. Memories of his fallen brothers to keep him alive and focused on the objective. Who is this last Ronin?

Download or read book Blue flame written by Robert A Webster and published by Tektime. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-pace Supernatural Thriller takes you from battles raging beneath turbulent seas to the dark stillness of space, where mortals, angels, and demons, battle to mold the populus of planet earth. Death comes to us all; whatever creed, colour, religion, or gender we are, it is an inescapable fact. For most of us, our work on this mortal plane is over, but for thefew, their job has just begun. Introducing, P.A.T.H., Paranormal Assisted Treasure Hunters; three psychically gifted individuals brought together to form a powerful mediatory force between the Mortal World and the Spiritual Plane. Assisted by their spirit protectors and commissioned by lost souls, they find treasures hidden by the souls during their lifetime which they give to their mortal beneficiaries. This fast-paced supernatural thriller follows a sinister plot planned during World War 2 and instigated in the present day, as the team need to discover the connection between the demon spirit of the twentieth century’s greatest despot and his son, the current US President, in Book 1 Return of The Reich. In its race to discover another planet to colonise for its overstretched population, humanity overlooked one thing. When a planetary event occurs around planet earth, the Afterlife Guardians send the PATH team on three quests, the outcome of which will determine the fate of humankind. Should they succeed, people will continue with their safe but chaotic existence However, failure could be a terrifying, yet necessary option, in this gripping climax - book 2, Covenant of the Gods Translator: Robert A Webster PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

Download or read book Eastside Girls written by Robin Chanel and published by Robin Chanel Publishing. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaori did all she could to provide for her small family she had. With working as a stripper in Hollywood and living on the Eastside of Compton all her life with her closest two friends Chan and Tissa, her life was hectic. However, this isn’t your typical stripper story, Kaori and her girls find a better paying hustle. Fast cars, good game, and sex appeal brought them millions. After partnering up on a deal of a lifetime with Kaori's boy toy, Kin, their lives changed drastically. Find out when Sin City meets the Eastside girls, Cha, Tissa, and Kaori. These women are determined to make it to the top with no limits, even if it meant death.

Download or read book Arifureta From Commonplace to World s Strongest Volume 9 written by Ryo Shirakome and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having finally found a way home, Hajime and his party head to the final labyrinth--the Frost Caverns. There, in that frigid land, the party seeks out the last ancient magic they'll need to go back to Earth. Upon entering the caverns, a maze of ice and an ever-present sinister whispering chips away at their concentration. As they proceed through it, the party is split up. Separated from the others, Shizuku is forced to fight a copy of herself. Will she be able to overcome this trial and surpass her limits?

Download or read book Passion Power and Peace written by Gerald E. Collins and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual psychology teaches that each lives in a world of individual and collective ideas that create the conditions of life. These conditions are a composite of these thoughts and beliefs. The main character of this story has beliefs that cause her to create what some might call magic. In her view her fantasies that take form are simply a result of her faith and conviction. In this tale two military powers bring their interest in conquest to an area around a small village. This village has no military, but is prosperous, peaceful, and happy. The woman who leads the village is often referred to as a sorceress, a priestess, or a queen. She has no such ideas about herself. Her legend started when, after a mystical miracle, she was appointed as head of her village council. This woman of peace named Kaori has been trained since childhood to believe in another world. This other world allows Kaori to perform the miraculous and lead her people, including her husband, who could be labeled a murderer, through a difficult period in their village. Critical to a reader's understanding of the story is not to label Kaori as a superhero. Her personal work is emphasized in the story to illustrate that anyone can gain these capabilities. Other members of the Hayshua Village demonstrate unusual abilities as well. Also of note is the graciousness of the miraculous in the writing. No one commands a miracle. They just happen because of the devotion and availability of the character. Readers may also find unbelievable how Hayshua deals with calamity, such as a murder in the village. As the story unfolds, these incidents later make sense. Could a larger society really work this way? Is vengeance purposeful? Four romances advance amid the chaos. Often there is not only struggle, but also advancement nevertheless. Animals, plants, and even nature herself become part of the seemingly complex web of this story. The boundless nature of both individuals and relationships come forth and advance, affected by the simple and seemingly meek. This writing contains a little romance, a little violence, a few miracles, and plenty of passion. And just when things seem to have slowed down, an old question is answered with pain and promise. Now Kaori must carefully deal with this matter. This magical story of conquest and peace amid chaos is also a love story-something that teaches, entertains, and frightens and something to be enjoyed. Does love do all this?