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Author :Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa Publisher :Ann Arbor : Published for the Center for Japanese Studies [by] the University of Michigan Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :228 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Japanese Literature of the Shōwa Period by : Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa
Download or read book Japanese Literature of the Shōwa Period written by Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa and published by Ann Arbor : Published for the Center for Japanese Studies [by] the University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Showa 1926-1939: by : Shigeru Mizuki
Download or read book Showa 1926-1939: written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating period in Japanese History explored by a master of manga Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki’s meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki’s photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease. When the Showa Era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the earliest events of the Era. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers. As he describes the militarization that leads up to World War II, Mizuki’s stance toward war is thoughtful and often downright critical – his portrayal of the Nanjing Massacre clearly paints the incident (a disputed topic within Japan) as an atrocity. Mizuki’s Showa 1926-1939 is a beautifully told history that tracks how technological developments and the country’s shifting economic stability had a role in shaping Japan’s foreign policy in the early twentieth century. Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.
Download or read book Showa 1944-1953 written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the legacy of World War II in Japan Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan continues the award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's autobiographical and historical account of the Showa period in Japan. This volume recounts the events of the final years of the Pacific War, and the consequences of the war's devastation for Mizuki and the Japanese populace at large. After the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Japan and the United States are officially at war. The two rival navies engage in a deadly game of feint and thrust, waging a series of microwars across the tiny Pacific islands. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, Japan slowly loses ground. Finally, the United States unleashes the deathblow with a new and terrible weapon--the atomic bomb. The fallout from the bombs is beyond imagining. On another front, Showa 1944-1953 traces Mizuki's own life story across history's sweeping changes during this period, charting the impact of the war's end on his life choices. After losing his arm during the brutal fighting, Mizuki struggles to decide where to go: whether to remain on the island as an honored friend of the local Tolai people or return to the rubble of Japan and take up his dream of becoming a cartoonist. Showa 1944-1953 is a searing condemnation of the personal toll of war from one of Japan's most famous cartoonists.
Download or read book Showa Japan written by Hans Brinckmann and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's momentous Showa era began in 1926, when Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne, and ended with his death in 1989. This was a tumultuous period in modern Japanese history—a time of great disaster and tremendous triumph for Japan. This book focuses on the post-war period in Japan when the nation stood at the zenith of her economic power. Today, the term Showa is shorthand for a glamorous period in which, all too briefly, Japan was the richest nation on earth and the envy of the developed world. A growing nostalgia for this period is now memorialized in Japan in a national holiday. It was an era of stratospheric growth which saw Japan's transition from an isolated, impoverished nation to a peaceful one holding an exalted position as the world's second largest economy. But what is the true meaning of the Showa era, and what is its legacy for the Japanese today? In Showa Japan, Hans Brinckmann provides a clear-eyed exploration of the Showa period as it really was—not just a time of wondrous change but of wild excesses that would eventually come crashing down with the bursting of Japan's economic bubble—exactly as occurred in the rest of the world, but almost 20 years earlier! From the heights of extravagance to the lean years that followed, Brinkmann, a long-time resident of Japan, examines the impact of the Showa era and its aftermath on every aspect of Japanese society. Featuring dozens of period photographs, interviews, and a wealth of factual information and personal reflections, this book provides an in-depth portrait of a Japan that once was—as well as a blueprint for one that might still be, if only the lessons of the past could be learned.
Book Synopsis Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan by : Stephen Large
Download or read book Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan written by Stephen Large and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan. Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This analysis focuses on key events in his career such as the extent to which he bore responsibility for Japanese aggression in the Pacific in 1941, and explains why Hirohito remains such a contested symbol in Japanese post war politics.
Book Synopsis Japanese Language Studies in the Showa Period by : Joseph K. Yamagiwa
Download or read book Japanese Language Studies in the Showa Period written by Joseph K. Yamagiwa and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University Of Michigan Center For Japanese Studies, Bibliographical Series, No. 9.
Book Synopsis Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature by : Noriko Mizuta Lippit
Download or read book Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature written by Noriko Mizuta Lippit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1980. In twentieth century Japanese literature, the opposition and interaction of realism and romanticism on the level of literary concepts, and of Marxism and aestheticism (including, in part, modernism) on the level of literary ideology, supplies a most vital basis for writers searching for new methods of literary expression, fostering debates among the writers and creating the setting for active experimentation with style, form and language. This study is a result of an extended stay in the United States by the author who turned increasingly toward questioning and evaluating my own relation to Japan's literary heritage. For Japanese who have witnessed (at least intellectually) the violent attraction to and rejection of foreign cultures of many of their predecessors in the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras, and their final, often sentimental and abstract, glorification of the Japanese cultural heritage, nihon kaiki (return to Japan) still presents enormously complex intellectual as well as emotional problems.
Book Synopsis A History of Japanese Literature by : Shūichi Katō
Download or read book A History of Japanese Literature written by Shūichi Katō and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature.
Book Synopsis Japanese Language Studies in the Shōwa Period by : Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa
Download or read book Japanese Language Studies in the Shōwa Period written by Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel by : Ryu Murakami
Download or read book Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel written by Ryu Murakami and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Audition, a wickedly satirical and wildly funny tale of an intergenerational battle of the sexes. In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the outset, the young men seem louche but harmless, their activities limited to drinking, snacking, peering at a naked neighbor through a window, and performing karaoke. The six "aunties" are fiercely independent career women. When one of the boys executes a lethal ambush of one of the women, chaos ensues. The women band together to find the killer and exact revenge. In turn, the boys buckle down, study physics, and plot to take out their nemeses in a single blast. Who knew that a deadly "gang war" could be such fun? Murakami builds the conflict into a hilarious, spot-on satire of modern culture and the tensions between the sexes and generations.
Book Synopsis Shōwa Japan: 1926-1941 by : Stephen S. Large
Download or read book Shōwa Japan: 1926-1941 written by Stephen S. Large and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Showa 1953-1989 written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tegneserie - graphic novel. A autobiographical and historical account of Showa-era Japan
Book Synopsis Anthology of Japanese Literature by : Donald Keene
Download or read book Anthology of Japanese Literature written by Donald Keene and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection of five periods of literature from the Land of the Rising Sun. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated Nō plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical context, allowing the readers to enjoy the book both as literature and as a guide to the cultural history of Japan. Selections include “Man’yōshū” or “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” from the ancient period; “Kokinshū” or “Collection of Ancient and Modern Poetry,” “The Tosa Diary” of Ki no Tsurayuki, “Yūgao” from “The Tale of Genji” of Murasaki Shikibu, and “The Pillow Book” of Sei Shōnagon from the Heian Period; “The Tale of the Heike” from the Kamakura Period; Plan of the No Stage, “Birds of Sorrow” of Seami Motokiyo, and “Three Poets at Minase” from the Muromachi Period; and selections from Bashō, including “The Narrow Road of Oku,” “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, and Waka and haiku of the Tokugawa Period.
Book Synopsis Japanese Language Studies in the Showa Period by : Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa
Download or read book Japanese Language Studies in the Showa Period written by Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Japanese Literature by : William George Aston
Download or read book A History of Japanese Literature written by William George Aston and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japanese Literature by : Edward Putzar
Download or read book Japanese Literature written by Edward Putzar and published by Tucson : University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Showa 1953-1989: by : Shigeru Mizuki
Download or read book Showa 1953-1989: written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in the Eisner-Nominated history of Japan Showa 1953–1989: A History of Japan concludes Shigeru Mizuki’s dazzling autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan, a portrait both intimate and ranging of a defining epoch. The final volume picks up in the wake of Japan’s utter defeat in World War II, as a country reduced to rubble struggles to rise again. The Korean War brings new opportunities to the nation searching for an identity. A former enemy becomes Japan’s greatest ally as the US funnels money, jobs, and opportunity into the country, hoping to establish it as a bulwark against Soviet communist expansion. Japan reinvents itself, emerging as an economic powerhouse. Events like the Tokyo Olympiad and the World’s Fair introduce a new, friendly Japan to the world, but this period of peace and plenty conceals a populace still struggling to come to terms with the devastation of World War II. The original Japanese edition of the series Showa: A History of Japan won Mizuki the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award; the English translation has been nominated for an Eisner Award. Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.
