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The Death of Old Yokohama

Author : Otis M Poole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136924833
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Old Yokohama written by Otis M Poole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was almost noon in the picturesque city of Yokohama on Saturday, September 1st 1923 when the first sway of one of the world’s most destructive earthquakes was felt. The first great shock lasted for four minutes and in that time every building in the city was destroyed, together with 100,000 of its Japanese inhabitants and one eighth of its foreign community. Other shocks followed and then fire which swept through the ruins with hurricane speed, suffocating and burning to death thousands trapped in wreckage or trying to flee. A first-hand account of the disaster told by a survivor, this accurate and authentic account was written immediately after the earthquake and is here published with only minor additions and corrections

The Death of Old Yokohama

Author : Otis M Poole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136924841
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Old Yokohama written by Otis M Poole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was almost noon in the picturesque city of Yokohama on Saturday, September 1st 1923 when the first sway of one of the world’s most destructive earthquakes was felt. The first great shock lasted for four minutes and in that time every building in the city was destroyed, together with 100,000 of its Japanese inhabitants and one eighth of its foreign community. Other shocks followed and then fire which swept through the ruins with hurricane speed, suffocating and burning to death thousands trapped in wreckage or trying to flee. A first-hand account of the disaster told by a survivor, this accurate and authentic account was written immediately after the earthquake and is here published with only minor additions and corrections

The Death of Old Yokohama

Author : Otis Manchester Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415564984
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Old Yokohama written by Otis Manchester Poole and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death of Old Yokohama

Author : Otis Manchester Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Death of Old Yokohama written by Otis Manchester Poole and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yokohama Burning

Author : Joshua Hammer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743264657
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Yokohama Burning written by Joshua Hammer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is very wide in scope and will be extremely useful to both undergraduates and lecturers undertaking modern analytical chemistry courses.

The Death of Old Yokohama

Author : Otis Manchester Poole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203843178
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Old Yokohama written by Otis Manchester Poole and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown

Author : Eric C. Han
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175429
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Rise of a Japanese Chinatown written by Eric C. Han and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rise of a Japanese Chinatown is the first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan. It focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino–Japanese War of 1894–1895 to the normalization of Sino–Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. Eric C. Han narrates the paradoxical story of how, during periods of war and peace, Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state.This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the construction of Chinese and Japanese identities and on Chinese migration and settlement. Using local newspapers, Chinese and Japanese government records, memoirs, and conversations with Yokohama residents, it retells the familiar story of Chinese nation building in the context of Sino-Japanese relations. But it builds on existing works by directing attention as well to non-elite Yokohama Chinese, those who sheltered revolutionary activists and served as an audience for their nationalist messages. Han also highlights contradictions between national and local identifications of these Chinese, who self-identified as Yokohama-ites (hamakko) without claiming Japaneseness or denying their Chineseness. Their historical role in Yokohama’s richly diverse cosmopolitan past can offer insight into a future, more inclusive Japan."

After the Earth Quakes

Author : Susan Elizabeth Hough
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195179137
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book After the Earth Quakes written by Susan Elizabeth Hough and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society can be profound. Phone and water supplies can be disrupted for days, fires erupt, and even a small number of overpass collapses can snarl traffic for months. However, when one examines the collective responses of developed societies to major earthquake disasters in recent historic times, a somewhat surprising theme emerges: not only determination, but resilience; not only resilience, but acceptance; not only acceptance, but astonishingly, humor. Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding.

The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan

Author : Kevin C. Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134433972
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan written by Kevin C. Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan. In this first book-length treatment of this group, Kevin Murphy explores their interactions with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them to its own ends, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan through their ambiguous but deep concern with order and opportunity, restraint and dominance, and conservatism and dominance.

Blue Light Yokohama

Author : Nicolas Obregon
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250110483
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Blue Light Yokohama written by Nicolas Obregon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Inspired by a real-life unsolved murder---Front jacket flap.

The Japan Chronicle

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japan Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Natural Disasters in a Global Environment

Author : Anthony N. Penna
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118327543
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Natural Disasters in a Global Environment written by Anthony N. Penna and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making use of the most recent scholarship. Examines a range of disasters including volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, hurricanes, famines, and more Highlights the role of science in studying natural disasters and describes the mechanisms responsible for them Features a range of case studies which can be used in conjunction with one another or as standalone examples Covers scientific material in a lucid and accessible style suited to undergraduate students or those outside of scientific disciplines Traces the transition of our understanding of disasters, from religious and superstitious explanations to contemporary scientific accounts

Photography in Japan 1853-1912

Author : Terry Bennett
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462907083
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Photography in Japan 1853-1912 written by Terry Bennett and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography in Japan 1853-1912 is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy. The 350 rare and antique photos in this book, most of them published here for the first time, chronicle the introduction of photography in Japan and early Japanese photography. The images are more than just a history of photography in Japan; they are vital in helping to understand the dramatic changes that occurred in Japan during the mid-nineteenth century. These rare Japanese photographs--whether sensational or everyday, intimate or panoramic--document a nation about to abandon its traditional ways and enter the modern era. Taken between 1853 and 1912 by the most important Japanese and foreign photographers working in Japan, this is the first book to document the history of early photography in Japan a comprehensive and systematic way.

The Japan Daily Mail

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japan Daily Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Surviving Armageddon

Author : Bill McGuire
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191501123
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Armageddon written by Bill McGuire and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many more. The ruthless indifference of the forces of nature to our fragile existence on the surface of the planet could not have been more shockingly demonstrated, nor the sheer scale of their power more tragically displayed. Massive earthquakes and super-eruptions, collision with vast boulders from space, the insidious, potentially catastrophic dangers of global warming: what can mere humans do against these natural hazards, which have devastated life on Earth in the past and could do so again? Are there real alternatives to simply awaiting our doom? Bill McGuire believes there are. Following on from A Guide to The End of the World, in which he presented a frightening vision of the hazards that face us, in Surviving Armageddon he guides us through the major threats, assessing the solutions that have been proposed, from the reasonable to the bizarre. There really are ways in which we can, perhaps not prevent, but limit the damage caused by future disasters, he concludes. As a volcanologist, McGuire has sensed at first hand the dangers of volcanic eruptions, and he was deeply involved in the scientific analysis of the Asian tsunami. In this lively narrative, he combines the science behind natural hazards with enthralling accounts of his own experiences and narrow escapes while working in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. He gives us a down-to-Earth view of how we might (just) deflect Armageddon, and live to tell the tale.

Japan in the 21st Century

Author : Pradyumna Karan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813127637
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Japan in the 21st Century written by Pradyumna Karan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: the world’s second-largest economy, a source of fury and wonder, a power without arms. Looking inward, Japan sees old ways shaken and new ones developing at a hectic pace. Japan in the Twenty-first Century offers compelling insights into the current realities of the country and investigates the crucial political, economic, demographic, and environmental challenges that face the nation. A combination of text, maps, and photographs provides an essential understanding of Japan’s geography, cultural heritage, demography, economic and political development, and of many other important issues. Pradyumna P. Karan explores the obstacles and opportunities that will shape Japan and affect the world community in the coming years. He highlights strategies and policies that will facilitate economic and political change and stimulate the development of effective institutions for long-term, sustainable prosperity and economic vitality. Unique field reports drawn from direct observations of events and places in Japan illuminate Japanese traditions and sensibilities. The first full-length English-language textbook on Japan’s geography, culture, politics, and economy to appear in nearly four decades, Japan in the Twenty-first Century will be a vital resource for researchers, academics, general readers, and students of Japan. Pradyumna P. Karan, professor of geography and Japan studies at the University of Kentucky, is the author or editor of numerous books on Asian geography and culture, including The Japanese City and Japan in the Bluegrass.

Japan on Display

Author : Morris Low
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134195826
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Japan on Display written by Morris Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography. The introduction and development of photography in the nineteenth century coincided with the need to make Hirohito’s grandfather, the young Meiji Emperor, more visible. Photo books and albums became a popular format for presenting seemingly objective images of the monarch, reminding the Japanese of their proximity to the Emperor, and the imperial family. In the twentieth century, these 'national albums’ provided a visual record of wars fought in the name of the Emperor, while also documenting the reconstruction of Tokyo, scientific expeditions, and imperial tours. Drawing on archival documents, photographs, and sources in both Japanese and English, this book throws new light on the history of twentieth-century Japan and the central role of Hirohito. With Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War, the Emperor was transformed from wartime leader to peace-loving scientist. Japan on Display seeks to understand this reinvention of a more 'human’ Emperor and the role that photography played in the process.