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SHIKATAGANAI: It Can't Be Helped

Author : Sumi Kinoshita
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460214498
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book SHIKATAGANAI: It Can't Be Helped written by Sumi Kinoshita and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumi narete tochi owarete sokai suru. (Expelled, chased out from the land we lived comfortably) Rokunin no ashi kata nokoshi sokai suru (Evacuation, six small kid's foot prints left behind.) Sutsu kaisu sageta kodomo wa ureshi garu (Carrying suitcases, kids were so excited) Shin pai wa doko e yukuno ka kane mo nai shi. (No money, destination not known, so worried.) Jinsei no ayumi tsuka reta, shiroi hata (Tired, exhausted of this journey, defeated with white flag) Shikataganai: It Can't Be Helped traces one Japanese-Canadian family's experience of evacuation and internment during World War II. By recounting personal stories of racial discrimination relating to these events, Sumi Kinoshita tells the story of her parents' struggle to cope while raising a family in the British Columbia interior during the war. These struggles continued during the difficult resettling period following the war, as her parents were faced with the twin realities of having their property confiscated and their livelihood disrupted. Including first-hand accounts from other members of the Morisawa family, Shikataganai: It Can't Be Helped weaves a compelling story of tragedy, of loss, of retaining a sense of humour, and ultimately, of finding hope in the face of life's challenges....

The World of the Japanese Mind

Author : Noriatsu Matsui
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981972208X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Japanese Mind written by Noriatsu Matsui and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Being Japanese American

Author : Gil Asakawa
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611729149
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Being Japanese American written by Gil Asakawa and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining compendium is a celebration of Japanese American history and heritage. While detailing favorite foods, customs, words, games, and holidays, it explores the painful history of immigration and WWII internment, with suggestions for connecting to your Japanese American community and passing on traditions across generations and into intermarried families. This revised edition has fresh interviews with Japanese Americans about their life experiences and explores contemporary Japanese pop culture like anime and J-pop, with information on traveling to visit your Japanese roots and lists of resources on the Web and social media. Gil Asakawa lives in Denver, Colorado, and is a nationally known journalist, editor, author, speaker, and blogger focusing on Japanese and Asian American issues.

Wisdom of the Last Farmer

Author : David Mas Masumoto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439117586
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom of the Last Farmer written by David Mas Masumoto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories as he farms peaches. In Wisdom of the Last Farmer, an impassioned memoir of revitalization and redemption, he finds the natural connections between generation and succession, fathers and children, booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and their farm. He brings us to the rich earth of America's Fruit Basket, under the vine trellises and canes where grapes are grown, and to the fruit orchards flush with green before harvest, where he uncovers and preserves the age-old wisdom that is fast disappearing in our modern, information-driven world -- and that is urgently needed in this time of food crises and social disruption. Masumoto sees the price the family has paid to grow complex heirloom peaches -- when the market rewards tasteless, big, and red fruits -- and the challenges of maintaining traditions and integrity while working in the modern, high-pressure agricultural marketplace. As his father's health declines along with the profitability of the family farm, Masumoto has the further hard work of nursing his father back to health -- becoming master to the teacher who once schooled him -- and is driven beyond economic concerns to even larger questions of life, death, and renewal. In his gorgeous, lyrical prose, Masumoto conjures the realities of farming life while weaving in the history of American agriculture over the past century, encapsulating universal themes of work along with wisdom that could be gleaned only from the earth. By the end of the workday, he understands the feeling of accomplishment when you've done your best...and discovers that it's when he lets go -- of both his father and control of nature -- that wisdom manifests itself. And, when Masumoto's daughter intends to return to the family farm, hope is found in the generations. In the quiet eloquence of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, you will see how your own destiny is involved in the future of your food, the land, and the farm.

Tokyo Blues

Author : Franz Wiegand
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595178812
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Blues written by Franz Wiegand and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl has been living a loveless existence with his drug-addicted wife and has reached the point where he needs to get away if he is to retain his mental balance. But his sense of responsibility to his wife and children has kept him chained to his situation creating a seemingly insoluble impasse.On a business trip to Japan he unexpectedly falls in love with a woman, Michiko, who has unresolved problems of her own, being bound to an unloving fiancé as a result of an arrangement between their parents. Two victims of circumstances, they desperately seek happiness and find it in this romantic, bittersweet tale of love set in modern Japan. In the knowledge that they cannot abdicate their responsibilities and must return to their previous ways of life, they attempt to make the most of their brief time together. Ephemeral as the flash of a firefly their intense passion flares brightly igniting a passionate affair that almost destroys one of them .

The Illustrated American

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated American written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exiting the Extraordinary

Author : Frances V. Moulder
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498520200
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Exiting the Extraordinary written by Frances V. Moulder and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploratory study, in sociological perspective, of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences. Some people have transformative experiences in life that are so extraordinary that they cannot be at all adequately explained to those who have not had such experiences. Experiences of this sort include: being in military combat; participating in great social movements, revolutions or terrorist activities; being incarcerated in concentration camps, the Gulag, and prisons; surviving collective disasters such as floods or hurricanes; serving in intelligence agencies and undercover roles; being a member of unusual religious groups; working as a journalist in war zones; carrying out aid work in impoverished or war-torn regions; and enduring slavery. The book discusses the commonalities among extraordinary experiences; why people are so profoundly changed by them; the typical challenges faced by returnees; and some typical strategies returnees have followed in order to deal with these challenges. A central theme of the book is that returnees are challenged not simply by experiencing extreme events, but by a great cultural divide between the extraordinary and the ordinary worlds. The struggles of returnees need to be seen as a social issue, rather than simply the private troubles of individuals. The book is based on personal accounts by returnees, interviews, and secondary sources, and contains many lively examples, both historical and contemporary, of the struggles and triumphs of those who go through extraordinary experiences and return to life in the ordinary world.

Blood Hina

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
ISBN 13 : 1938849205
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Blood Hina written by Naomi Hirahara and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancée goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To solve the mystery to save Haruo's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heart-breaking memories, and murder.

Global Culture/Individual Identity

Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134625421
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Global Culture/Individual Identity written by Gordon Mathews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Mathews opens up the complex and debated topics of globalisation, culture and identity in a clear and lively style. His book will be an illuminating and valuable read to social and cultural anthropologists and students.

Things We Didn't Say

Author : Amy Lynn Green
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493428195
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Things We Didn't Say written by Amy Lynn Green and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the University of Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind there. But the US Army wants her to work as a translator at a nearby camp for German POWs. Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy town exploding with hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do with German soldiers laboring in their fields, and they're not afraid to criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna describes the trouble to her friend Peter Ito, a language instructor at a school for military intelligence officers, he encourages her to give the town that rejected her a second chance. As Johanna interacts with the men of the camp and censors their letters home, she begins to see the prisoners in a more sympathetic light. But advocating for better treatment makes her enemies in the community, especially when charismatic German spokesman Stefan Werner begins to show interest in Johanna and her work. The longer Johanna wages her home-front battle, the more the lines between compassion and treason become blurred--and it's no longer clear whom she can trust.

The Takeover

Author : Cara Tanamachi
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250842298
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Takeover written by Cara Tanamachi and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, when you ask the universe for your soulmate, you wind up with your hate mate instead. On Nami's 30th birthday, she’s reminded at every turn that her life isn’t what she planned. She’s always excelled at everything – until now. Her fiancé blew up their engagement. Her pride and joy, the tech company she helped to found, is about to lose funding. And her sister, Sora, is getting married to the man of her dreams, Jack, and instead of being happy for her, as she knows she ought to be, she’s fighting off jealousy. Frustrated with her life, she makes a wish on a birthday candle to find her soulmate. Instead, the universe delivers her hate mate, Nami’s old high school nemesis, Jae Lee, the most popular kid from high school, who also narrowly beat her out for valedictorian. More than a decade later, Jae is still as effortlessly cool, charming, and stylish as ever, and, to make matters worse, is planning a hostile take-over of her start-up. Cue: sharp elbows and even sharper banter as the two go head-to-head to see who’ll win this time. But when their rivalry ignites a different kind of passion, Nami starts to realize that it's not just her company that's in danger of being taken over, but her heart as well. "Readers will cheer on this pair of sparring hearts." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings

Author : Jade Tsui-yu Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811563632
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings written by Jade Tsui-yu Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from Jacques Derrida’s appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core and axis, it considers the multifarious poetics and politics of minority trauma writings, and posits a possible interpretive framework for contemporary Asian-American writings, including those written by Julie Otsuka, Joseph Craig Danner, Monique Truong, Nguyen Viet Thanh, Janice Lowe Shinebourne, and Andre Lamontagne. As these writings contain works regarding Japanese-American, Indo-Chinese Guyanese, Chinese Quebeçois, Vietnamese exiles/refugees, and Vietnam-American experiences, this book presents a broad cross-cultural view on migration and minority issues triggered by wars and precarious conditions, as the diversified experiences examined here epitomize an intricate historical intimacy across four continents: Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.

Why Be Happy?

Author : Scott Haas
Publisher : Hachette Go
ISBN 13 : 073828551X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Why Be Happy? written by Scott Haas and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful and practical guide to ukeireru, the Japanese principle of acceptance, offers a path to well-being and satisfaction for the anxious and exhausted. Looking for greater peace and satisfaction? Look no further than the Japanese concept of ukeireru, or acceptance. Psychologist Scott Haas offers an elegant, practical, and life-changing look at ways we can reduce anxiety and stress and increase overall well-being. By learning and practicing ukeireru, you can: Profoundly improve your relationships, with a greater focus on listening, finding commonalities, and intuiting Find calm in ritualizing things such as making coffee, drinking tea, and even having a cocktail Embrace the importance of baths and naps Show respect for self and others, which has a remarkably calming effect on everyone Learn to listen more than you talk Tidy up your life by downsizing experiences and relationships that offer more stress than solace Cultivate practical ways of dealing with anger, fear, and arguments -- the daily tensions that take up so much of our lives By practicing acceptance, we learn to pause, take in the situation, and then deciding on a course of action that reframes things. Why Be Happy? Discover a place of contentment and peace in this harried world.

Conversational Japanese for Beginners

Author : Arthur Rose-Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conversational Japanese for Beginners written by Arthur Rose-Innes and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development

Author : Carol Blackshire-Belay
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819191823
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development written by Carol Blackshire-Belay and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most updated discussion of the most important issues facing students, scholars, and researchers in second language acquisition research and development. Contents: Current Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Development: An Introduction, Carol A. Blackshire-Belay; Section 1: Language Development and Transfer. Native Language Transfer and Universal Simplification, Robin Sabino; Aspect Transferability (Or: What Gets Lost in the Translation-and Why?), Terence Odlin; Creole Verb Serialization: Transfer or Spontaneity? Frank Byrne; Section 2: Learner Variables in Second Language Acquisition. Contexts for Second Language Acquisition, Elsa Lattey; Language Acquisition, Biography and Bilingualism, Ulrich Steinmuller; Acquisition of Japanese by American Businessmen in Tokyo: How Much and Why? Yoshiko Matsumoto; Section 3: Issues in Interlanguage Development. Abrupt Restructuring Versus Gradual Acquisition, Hanna Pishwa; Variability in Grammatical Analysis: On Recognizing Verbal Markers in Foreign Workers' German, Carol A. Blackshire-Belay; Sketch of an Interlanguage Rule System: Advanced Nonnative German Gender Assignment, Joe Salmons.

Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

Author : Kristina Mcmorris
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1496725840
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Bridge of Scarlet Leaves written by Kristina Mcmorris and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the gifted, award-winning author of "Letters from Home" comes a poignantnovel of love and courage, set against one of the most controversial episodesin American history: the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Fanny Bixby Spencer

Author : Marcia Lee Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238561
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Fanny Bixby Spencer written by Marcia Lee Harris and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last daughter born to Jotham Bixby, the "Father of Long Beach," Fanny Bixby Spencer (1879-1930) carved her own singular and eccentric path across California history. Born to wealth and power, she chose a boldly independent, egalitarian lifestyle in an age when women's lives were largely confined to domesticity. Fanny served with the Long Beach Police Department as America's first policewoman. She was a founder of the city of Costa Mesa in Orange County. Her humanitarian efforts reached across ethnicities and social standing. Yet beyond her civic accomplishments, Fanny was provocative as a poet, artist, pacifist, suffragist, child advocate, foster mother and humanitarian. Marcia Lee Harris captures this fascinating woman's remarkable life, enhanced by Fanny's own poetry and soulful reflections.