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Book Synopsis The Ghost of Nakagusku by : Randall Hoover
Download or read book The Ghost of Nakagusku written by Randall Hoover and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Marine Corps sergeant newly assigned to a tour of duty on Okinawa, Japan, encounters a six-hundred-year-old ghost. Both the marine and the ghost have a history of violence and no desire to move past it. After a tumultuous beginning to their relationship, a relationship embroiled in murder investigations involving a local crime family, it forces a collaboration between the two. Artemis Jones reenlisted in the Marine Corps for four years to receive orders to Okinawa. His wife, an army specialist, had received orders to Okinawa a year previous. This was to be their long-waited reunion. The ghost, a vengeful spirit with samurai training, growing ever stronger over the years, was finally strong enough to resume the role of protector over the family land. Whether by chance or by fate, their paths collide.
Author :Elena Grand Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781541153646 Total Pages :70 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (536 download)
Book Synopsis The Ghost of Sakura by : Elena Grand
Download or read book The Ghost of Sakura written by Elena Grand and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost of Sakura. Tales of Japan
Book Synopsis A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition by : Patrick Drazen
Download or read book A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition written by Patrick Drazen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the worlds oldest novel, the urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." For hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world and the spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, author of "Anime Explosion", looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at common themes and the reasons for their popularity. This book uses one Japanese ghost story tradition: the "hyaku monogatari" (hundred stories). In the old tradition, people tell each other one hundred ghost stories in one sitting. These hundred tales run from folklore to cartoons, but all are designed to send chills up the spine ...
Book Synopsis The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by : Dorothy Hoobler
Download or read book The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn written by Dorothy Hoobler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
Book Synopsis Japanese Ghost in America by : Daniel O'Brien
Download or read book Japanese Ghost in America written by Daniel O'Brien and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy, an introspective and world-traveled social studies teacher, lives a quiet life working in a Minnesota high school. Having lived in Japan for several decades—a country that he considers his second home—he is caught off-guard by the ancient and unfinished legacy that has followed him back across the Pacific. As the sun sets, Jimmy begins to see strange events in his home: a disembodied hand in the moonlight, then the full apparition of a Japanese woman in traditional kimono. Despite being separated by the boundaries of time and space, life and death, Jimmy and the mysterious woman discover a karmic connection. Together, they search for the root of her eternal restlessness in the hopes of attaining her redemption. Jimmy must unravel her past to discover how their destinies are intertwined, and how they might heal one another.
Book Synopsis Eri, a Japanese Ghost Story by : Martin Connolly
Download or read book Eri, a Japanese Ghost Story written by Martin Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Gathering of Spirits by : Patrick Drazen
Download or read book A Gathering of Spirits written by Patrick Drazen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the world's oldest novel, The urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." for hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world And The spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, author of "Anime Explosion", looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at common themes And The reasons for their popularity. This book uses one Japanese ghost story tradition: The "hyaku monogatari" (hundred stories). In the old tradition, people tell each other one hundred ghost stories in one sitting. These hundred tales run from folklore to cartoons, but all are designed to send chills up the spine ...
Book Synopsis Zen Odyssey, An Okinawan Karate & Martial Arts Journey by : Mark D Bishop
Download or read book Zen Odyssey, An Okinawan Karate & Martial Arts Journey written by Mark D Bishop and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining odyssey by all means, which all readers, not only karate-ka, can enjoy. The work describes a fascinating 'voyage of discovery' through the Okinawan martial arts during the author's younger years. Both informative & factual, the work leads the reader on a journey of initiation from the preliminary stages of being a 'live-in disciple' of Goju-ryu & trainee of Matayoshi Kobudo in post-Reversion Okinawa, as he travels with the reader through the exploration of Uechi-ryu, Shorin-ryu & Okinawan te; also of a vast spectrum of connected Ryukyuan cultural entities. His attention to detail is commendable, as the shared expedition becomes an esoteric odyssey to find the zen spark of enlightenment that evades so many seekers, but which can be found within one's own nature. Mark D Bishop is arguably the foremost authority on historical Okinawa karate & martial arts. He continues to write, travel, research and teach extensively on various aspects of these, including its related anma bodywork & zen.
Book Synopsis Japanese Ghost Stories by : Catrien Ross
Download or read book Japanese Ghost Stories written by Catrien Ross and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Best Book of 2009" —The Japan Times Japanese Ghost Stories, formerly published under the title Supernatural and Mysterious Japan, is a collection of the eerie and terrifying from around Japan. This book opens a window into the hidden aspects of the Japanese world of the paranormal, a place where trees grow human hair, rocks weep and there's even a graveyard where Jesus is reputed to have been buried. Covering ancient and modern times, Japanese Ghost Stories offers not only good, old-fashioned scary stories, but some special insights into Japanese culture and psychology. Japanese ghost stories include: In Search of the Supernatural Psychic Stirrings New Forays into the Mystic Strange but True Modern-Day Hauntings Scenes of Ghosts and Demons Edo-Era Tales
Download or read book Asian Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “Comfort Stations” as Remembered by Okinawans during World War II by : Yunshin Hong
Download or read book “Comfort Stations” as Remembered by Okinawans during World War II written by Yunshin Hong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okinawa, the only Japanese prefecture invaded by US forces in 1945, was forced to accommodate 146 “military comfort stations” from 1941–45. How did Okinawans view these intrusive spaces and their impact on regional society? Interviews, survivor testimonies, and archival documents show that the Japanese army manipulated comfort stations to isolate local communities, facilitate “spy hunts,” and foster a fear of rape by Americans that induced many Okinawans to choose death over survival. The politics of sex pursued by the US occupation (1945–72) perpetuated that fear of rape into the postwar era. This study of war, sexual violence, and postcolonial memory sees the comfort stations as discursive spaces of remembrance where differing war experiences can be articulated, exchanged, and mutually reassessed. Winner of the 2017 Best Publication Award of the Year by the Okinawa Times.
Download or read book Zen Kobudo written by Mark Bishop and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kobudo, the famous armed Okinawan fighting art that utilizes common farming implements in combat, and Te, the ancient Okinawan art of armed and unarmed combat, are two of the world's most widely practiced yet least-understood martial arts. This book studies the individual Kobudo and Te systems as they are practiced in Okinawa today and discusses their various histories and the lives of the masters who have most influenced them. Spiritualism in the Okinawan arts is also covered in detail, as the author masterfully describes the mix of Zen and native beliefs that are vital to these arts, yet a component that has been all but ignored by previous researchers. In addition, this is the first work to discuss anthropological theories on Okinawa and the development of fighting arts there from the Stone Age. This complete and wide–ranging study of Okinawan weaponry, history, and training is the ultimate guide to these important fighting arts.
Book Synopsis Above the East China Sea by : Sarah Bird
Download or read book Above the East China Sea written by Sarah Bird and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years by the shared experience of profound loss, the enduring strength of an ancient culture, and the redeeming power of family love. Luz James, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her strictly-by-the-rules sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base in Okianawa. Luz’s older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has just been killed in the Afghan war. Unmoored by her sister’s death and a lifetime of constant moving from base to base, Luz turns for the comfort her service-hardened mother cannot offer to the “Smokinawans,” the “waste cases,” who gather to get high every night in a deserted cove. When even pills, one-hitters, Cuervo Gold, and a growing crush on Jake Furusato aren’t enough to soften the unbearable edge, the desolate girl contemplates taking her own life. In 1945, Tamiko Kokuba, along with two hundred of her classmates, is plucked out of her elite girls’ high school and trained to work in the Imperial Army’s horrific cave hospitals. With defeat certain, Tamiko finds herself squeezed between the occupying Japanese and the invading Americans. She believes she has lost her entire family, as well as the island paradise she so loved, and, like Luz, she aches with a desire to be reunited with her beloved sister. On an island where the spirits of the dead are part of life and your entire clan waits for you in the afterworld, suicide offers Tamiko the promise of peace. As Luz tracks down the story of her own Okinawan grandmother, she discovers that, if she surrenders to the most unbrat impulse and allows herself to connect completely with a place and its people, the ancestral spirits will save not only Tamiko but her as well. Propelled by a riveting narrative and set at the very epicenter of the headline-grabbing clash now emerging between the great powers, Above the East China Sea is at once a remarkable chronicle of how war shapes the lives of conquerors as well as the conquered and a deeply moving account of family, friendship, and love that transcends time. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Book Synopsis The Brilliant Adventures of Nate Connor by : Roy A. Hinderer
Download or read book The Brilliant Adventures of Nate Connor written by Roy A. Hinderer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One: Young Nate is on a foreign exchange assignment to stay with a family in an ancient castle in western Germany. As he eagerly learns to adapt to the culture, Nate is befriended by neighboring Germans, Thorston and Sandra, who together discover there is something terribly wrong in the castle and the surrounding farming village of Gauersheim. Book Two: Nate Brighton returns home to America and soon departs with his Christian education/missionary family for the island of Okinawa, Japan. Once settled into this foreign but astonishingly eventful place, Nate and his younger brother and friends set off for a camping trip at the ruins of Nakagusuku Castle. Book Three: It is one thing to talk about protecting the environment, but its an entirely different thing to stand up and do something about it. The Connor boys, as you will see, are up for such a task. Nate and Rickys parents send them home to Washington State from Okinawa, Japan, to stay in their home under the guardianship of their Uncle Hank and prepare for a new school year.
Download or read book 40th CB POA, 1944-1945 written by and published by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Okinawa by : United States. Marine Corps
Download or read book Okinawa written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis After Dark in the Playing Fields by : M R James
Download or read book After Dark in the Playing Fields written by M R James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window, ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense.
