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Memoirs of a Gaijin

Author : Benjamin Hesse
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595448690
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Gaijin written by Benjamin Hesse and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello from Japan. Not much new here. My four-year-olds attacked me, my crazy female stalkers jumped on the desk and professed their love for me, my depressed coworkers fist-fought each other at the all-you-can-drink karaoke bar, and I have no idea what I ate yesterday but it was uncooked and squishy. Pretty much the usual. What's new from home? Ben took the teaching job in Japan because he wasn't quite ready to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. Instead, his efforts were put towards figuring out his new students, coworkers, and dinner. He is a "gaijin," the Japanese word for "foreigner." From festivals and temples to bicycles and cleaning supplies, Memoirs of a Gaijin: Emails from Japan is the one-year collection of emails and journals that chronicle Ben's experiences in the comedic and confusing country of Japan. "A witty, honest work. Ben Hesse's Memoirs of a Gaijin should be a required read for those college grads who are contemplating the increasingly popular first 'real life' step of teaching English abroad."-C.J. Renner, author of Tried to Say

Memoirs of a Gaijin

Author : Bretigne Shaffer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105119564
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Gaijin written by Bretigne Shaffer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a young American woman living in a Tokyo Gaijin house.

Yokohama Gaijin

Author : George Lavrov
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467870536
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Yokohama Gaijin written by George Lavrov and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G e o r g e L a v r o v George Lavrov was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, where he attended St. Joseph grade and high school. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University, with a major in international trade management with area specialization in Japan and the Pacific Rim. He is the author of The Pacific Rim--Threat or Promise, as well as various other articles dealing with Asian and international business. Being trilingual, he speaks English, Russian and Japanese. During 1975 to 1986, Lavrov was based in Tokyo where he represented American insurance interests. Since returning to the U.S., he has continued to work in the international arena, especially related to Asia and the Pacific Rim. Yokohama Gaijin is George Lavrov's personal story, told from his own eyewitness account. It recounts the horror of WWII carpet bombings of Japanese cities, including the tragic loss of his elder brother, Konstantin, who was killed instantly when a bomb from an American B-29 bomber made a direct hit on the Lavrov residence in Yokohama, Japan, on May 29th, 1945, the harsh wartime treatment of gaijin (foreign) residents of Japan and much more. It is the true story of a stateless White Russian and his family, as they coped through some of the most difficult times of the 20th century--the WWII period in Japan and the postwar years that followed. But it's also a story of faith and hope in the future--a future that spelled A M E R I C A and a successful career in the international business world.

Memoirs of a Gaijin

Author : Pascale Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557077427
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Gaijin written by Pascale Crane and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a young American woman living in a Tokyo Gaijin house.

Memoirs of a Gaijin

Author : Elaine L. Honstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Gaijin written by Elaine L. Honstein and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Only Gaijin in the Village

Author : Iain Maloney
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852591
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Only Gaijin in the Village written by Iain Maloney and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the village. Even after more than a decade living in Japan and learning the language, life in the countryside was a culture shock. Due to increasing numbers of young people moving to the cities in search of work, there are fewer rural residents under the retirement age – and they have two things in abundance: time and curiosity. Iain's attempts at amateur farming, basic gardening and DIY are conducted under the watchful eye of his neighbours and wife. But curtain twitching is the least of his problems. The threat of potential missile strikes and earthquakes is nothing compared to the venomous snakes, terrifying centipedes and bees the size of small birds that stalk Iain's garden. Told with self-deprecating humour, this memoir gives a fascinating insight into a side of Japan rarely seen and affirms the positive benefits of immigration for the individual and the community. It's not always easy being the only gaijin in the village.

Memoirs of a Gaijin

Author : Erin Neff Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781424197491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Gaijin written by Erin Neff Peters and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is one of the great loves of my life, but it wasnat always that way. As little as six years ago, Japan wasnat even on my list of places that I wanted to visit, let alone live. It seemed too aoriental.a Yet, through a weird twist of fate (and, as it turned out, luck), I ended up living there two separate times, most recently as an English teacher. Life as a agaijina (literally translated, aoutside persona) in Japan was oftentimes frustrating (especially when, time and again, people looked into your shopping cart at the grocery store to see what a gaijin would buy) and at the same time side-splittingly hilarious. This is a humorous collection of my experiences written while I was living in Yamagata Mura, Iwate Ken, Japan. I hope you enjoy reading them (and laughing at them) as much as I enjoyed living them.

Tokyo Central

Author : Seidenstic
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295803746
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Central written by Seidenstic and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Seidensticker, perhaps best know for his translations of modern and classical Japanese novels, including the 11th century Tale of Genji. Seidensticker was introduced to Japan as a young diplomat during the Allied occupation and remained in Tokyo afterwards, befriending many of the luminaries of the Japanese literary scene. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Cultured Gaijin

Author : Joseph Delmastro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645573602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Cultured Gaijin written by Joseph Delmastro and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor. Sacrifice. Friendship. Tradition. Love. Cultures clash and hearts open in this exciting memoir set in 1970s Japan. What happens when an Italian-American airman stationed in Tokyo breaks free from expectations and fully opens to embrace-and be embraced-by Japan's traditional way of living and loving? Other books and movies have shown us the politically authorized view, the Hollywood view, the Americanized view of Japan. For the first time, in Cultured Gaijin (foreigner), you will discover the REAL Japan. Whether you are already a lover of The Land of the Rising Sun, or you have been curious and want to go beyond the guidebooks and documentaries, this book is your gateway to an immersion that is as humorous as it is thought-provoking. Through the eyes, mind, and spirit of a U.S. Air Force serviceman willing to step deeply into Bushido, the moral code of the samurai warrior, while staying true to himself, you will journey from Japanese countryside to city, from mountains to temples, and meet real-life characters who will enliven and enlighten you long after you have read the last page of this respectful, revealing, romantic, and raw autobiography.

Gaijin

Author : Jordan Okumura
Publisher : Civil Coping Mechanisms
ISBN 13 : 9781937865665
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Gaijin written by Jordan Okumura and published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exquisite and excruciating, Gaijin is a blunt, alarmingly honest accounting of scars and blows to the spirit. Part memoir, part mythology, and part eulogy to a grandfather, Gaijin simultaneously tracks a personal rupture and a family, through the painful and awkward reclamation of the self after sexual violence and the evocation of a patriarch, half dreamed, half real. So powerful is the poetry and aching of Gaijin, it crushes the breath out of you as you read.

On Tokyo's Edge

Author : Gordon Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997310207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book On Tokyo's Edge written by Gordon Ball and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Edited by Susan Gardner. These twenty-three short stories reaffirm author Gordon Ball's absorption with, and illumination of, "vanished" people, places, and times. Following on the heels of three memoirs, ON TOKYO'S EDGE re-creates the texture of life among a rarefied group of relatively isolated foreigners in American-Occupied Japan and the decade following Occupation. Peopling these interrelated short fictions are a great range of vivid characters, including schoolmates, lovers, military men, chemistry teachers, maids, a lustful preacher, and a missionary of exemplary character. Many of the tales focus on young Robert La Salle, suddenly transplanted at age five to a culture 8,000 miles distant and who, as year follows year, confronts levels of "foreignness" within himself and his family as well as the strange larger world around him. "ON TOKYO'S EDGE is a wonderful collection of stories about a young boy coming of age in a foreign land. The stories draw us into his world and let us learn with him what happens when two cultures collide. Ball's gentle, patient nature and his affection for this vanished world shines through vivid and undimmed by time. Beautifully written, it's a book I couldn't put down." -- Bill Morgan "ON TOKYO'S EDGE gorgeously evokes the privileged world of American expats in 1950's Occupied Japan. Among them is Robert La Salle, a young boy, uncomfortably aware of being an outsider in a defeated country and keenly alert to adult foibles. In crisp, ringing detail, the story reveals a tightly-knit American community that is reshaping Japan even as Japan refashions its place in the world. Like the re-emerging nation, Robert is coming of age. His progress is poignant, funny, and vastly entertaining." -- Cary Holladay "Gordon Ball has proven himself to be a first-rate memoirist, whether he's recalling his role as an observer/participant in the mid-Sixties New York alternative film community (66 Frames) or remembering his job at controlling the mayhem of Allen Ginsberg's upstate New York farm (East Hill Farm). In this collection of short stories, he has taken the shards of his memory as a youth growing up in Japan, shaped then with the tools of fiction, and crafted them into wonderful tales and anecdotes. He has accomplished what good fiction sets out to do." -- Michael Schumacher

Under Foreign Eyes

Author : James King
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780990480
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Under Foreign Eyes written by James King and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) —outsiders who almost always do not speak or read Japanese. My area of attention is directed to films depicting post World War II Japan and the Japanese, and, in many cases, films showing how foreigners in the same time frame respond to Japan. Why have a substantial number of films been set there by strangers? As a body of work, what do they tell us about contemporary Japan and about cinema? These films certainly provide a new cultural history of the West’s reaction to Japan, but, even more, they are constructions that demonstrate how the West gazes at Japan. As such, more information can often be derived about the onlookers as on those looked-upon.

Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man

Author : Steve Alpert
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729416
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man written by Steve Alpert and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly entertaining memoir describing what it was like to work for Japan’s premiere animation studio, Studio Ghibli, and its reigning genius Hayao Miyazaki. A behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like for a gaijin (foreigner) to work in a thoroughly Japanese organization run by four of the most famous and culturally influential people in modern Japan.

Turning Japanese

Author : David Mura
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142399
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Turning Japanese written by David Mura and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, David Mura, a third-generation Japanese-American, was awarded a writing grant to live in Japan. After years of ignoring his ethnic heritage, Mura, with his wife (an American), embarked on a trip that profoundly changed his life. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for self-knowledge and racial identity.

Turning Japanese

Author : David Mura
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802196020
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Turning Japanese written by David Mura and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient and ascendant culture” (The New York Times). Award-winning poet David Mura’s critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision, and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. Turning Japanese was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author. “A dizzying interior voyage of self-discovery and splintered identity.” —Chicago Tribune “There is brilliant writing in this book, observations of Japanese humanity and culture that are subtly different from and more penetrating than what we usually get from Westerners.” —The New Yorker “Turning Japanese reads like a fascinating novel you can’t put down . . . Mura’s story is a universal one, and one that is accessible to everyone, even those whose experience in the U.S. is not that of a person of color.” —Asian Week “[Mura] paints a portrait of Japan that is rich and satisfying . . . a refreshingly kindly and tolerant study, a powerful antidote to the venomous anti-Japanese mood that seems, distressingly, to be seizing some corners of the American mind.” —Conde Nast Traveler

A Tokyo Romance

Author : Ian Buruma
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981423
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Tokyo Romance written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn’t so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than a little frightening, and completely unforgettable. If Tokyo was anything like his plays, Buruma knew that he had to join the circus as soon as possible. Tokyo was an astonishment. Buruma found a feverish and surreal metropolis where nothing was understated—neon lights, crimson lanterns, Japanese pop, advertising jingles, and cabarets. He encountered a city in the midst of an economic boom where everything seemed new, aside from the isolated temple or shrine that had survived the firestorms and earthquakes that had levelled the city during the past century. History remained in fragments: the shapes of wounded World War II veterans in white kimonos, murky old bars that Mishima had cruised in, and the narrow alleys where street girls had once flitted. Buruma’s Tokyo, though, was a city engaged in a radical transformation. And through his adventures in the world of avant garde theater, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers, and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical transformation of his own. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him. With his signature acuity, Ian Buruma brilliantly captures the historical tensions between east and west, the cultural excitement of 1970s Tokyo, and the dilemma of the gaijin in Japanese society, free, yet always on the outside. The result is a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic, and sexual.

Fudoki

Author : Kij Johnson
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466800658
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Fudoki written by Kij Johnson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her skillful debut novel, Kij Johnson took the classic Japanese myth of the fox who dared to become a woman to win true love and created The Fox Woman, a luminous, lyrical tale of love, desire, joy, and the nature of the soul. Set in the same universe as The Fox Woman, this time Kij Johnson takes on another animal totem and enters the world of the creature who comes to be known as Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen. And who may or may not be the figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings of court life and reminiscing as she follows the paths that are leading her to the nunnery and death. Fudoki is the tale of a being who starts her journey on the kami, or spirit road, as a humble-if ever a being such as a Cat can be humble-small tortoiseshell feline. She has seen her family destroyed by a fire that decimated most of the Imperial city. This loss renders her taleless, the only one left alive to pass on such stories as The Cat Born the Year the Star Fell, the Cat with a Litter of Ten, the Fire-Tailed Cat. Without her fudoki-self and soul and home and shrine-she cannot keep the power of her clan together. And she cannot join another fudoki because, although she might be able to win a place within another clan, to do so would mean that she would cease to be herself. So a small cat begins an extraordinary journey. Along the way she will attract the attention of old and ancient powers, including gods who are curious about this creature newly come to Japan's shores, and who choose to give the tortoiseshell a human shape. And who set her on a new kami road, where Kagaya-hime will have to choose a way to find what happiness she can. Weaving a haunting story of one being's transformation and journey of discovery with the telling of another's long life set against the backdrop of the courtly rituals of Imperial power, Kij Johnson has written a powerful novel about the nature of freedom and the redemptive power of transformation--if only one is brave enough to risk it all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.