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Tokyo's Mystery Deepens

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1942410069
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo's Mystery Deepens written by Michael Pronko and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when large bugs get trapped on crowded Tokyo trains? How does allergy season affect Tokyo's millions? Ever wonder why Japanese love to take photos together or how everyone feels during rainy season? How is Tokyo made so compact and made as much from imagination as from concrete and steel? Longtime resident, writer and professor Michael Pronko shows just why Tokyo life is equal parts trial and joy. This collection offers up essential skills for living in the vastest, most crowded city in the world-sweating politely, suffering noise and glancing in mirrors--and muses over the minutest of daily details-window flowers, eye contact and small gestures of thanks. If you're traveling to Tokyo, these essays point you toward the undercurrents of life and if you've ever considered visiting Tokyo, these essays will give you more reasons to go. Tokyo's Mystery Deepens brings together essays from Pronko's monthly column in Newsweek Japan, which has remained highly popular with Japanese readers for the last ten years. Originally published in Japanese, these concise, pointed essays are available in English for the first time. As with the first collection, Beauty and Chaos, Pronko examines Tokyo as a city, a culture and an overpowering experience. Tokyo's Mystery Deepens taps into the enigmatic sides of Tokyo with humor, delicacy and a large dose of healthy confusion. Praise for Beauty and Chaos:"e;Japanese who are used to Tokyo are caught off guard by his conclusions derived from careful observation, and are struck dumb...Tokyo, the city we are so careless of, suddenly starts to become glorious. It is a wonder!"e; Chunichi Shimbun (Newspaper) (translated from Japanese version) "e;Giving up the bias and seeing the city with completely different standards, you will see the unexpected, attractive face of Tokyo. This book is a guide for rediscovering Tokyo that lets us see the city with unique new features."e; Nikkan Gendai (translated from Japanese version) Japanese version available from KADOKAWA Publishers as: a E a aa a aeZaaSae-aae*aa a zaaa a a -a -a ae'-)

Tokyo's Mystery Deepens

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942410072
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo's Mystery Deepens written by Michael Pronko and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tokyo Zangyo

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
ISBN 13 : 1942410247
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Zangyo written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tokyo, your job can kill After a top-tier manager in Japan’s premier media company ends up dead in front of company headquarters, Detective Hiroshi enters the high-pressure, hard-driving world of Tokyo’s large corporations. Hiroshi quickly finds out the manager fell from the roof at the exact same spot as an employee suicide three years before. With little more to go on, Hiroshi can’t tell if the manager’s death was a guilt-ridden suicide, a careless accident, or a grisly personnel decision. The only certainty is that Japanese workplaces rely on “zangyo,” unpaid overtime that drives employees to quit—or to kill. Teaming up with his mentor Takamatasu, Hiroshi scours the off-record spending, lavish entertaining and unspoken agreements that keep Japan, Inc. running with brutal efficiency. Working overtime himself, Hiroshi probes the dark heart of Japanese business, a place he’s tried to avoid all his life. Tokyo Zangyo is the fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series.

Tokyo Traffic

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
ISBN 13 : 1942410204
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Traffic written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, and some stolen money, she stays ahead of her former captors willing to do anything to recover the computer she took. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya makes plans to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office to investigate a porn studio where a brutal triple murder took place. The studio’s accounts point him in multiple directions at once. Together with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the killers through Tokyo’s teen hangouts, bayside docks and crowded squares, straight into the underbelly of the global economy. As bodies wash up from Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl at the center of it all, whose name he doesn’t even know. He uncovers a human trafficking ring and cryptocurrency scammers whose connections extend to the highest levels of Tokyo’s power elite.

The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies

Author : Nicholas Gebhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315315785
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies written by Nicholas Gebhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents over forty articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of enquiry. Each chapter reflects on developments within jazz studies over the last twenty-five years, offering surveys and new insights into the major perspectives and approaches to jazz research. The collection provides an essential research resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts, and will serve as the definitive survey of current jazz scholarship in the Anglophone world to-date. It extends the critical debates about jazz that were set in motion by formative texts in the 1990s, and sets the agenda for the future scholarship by focusing on key issues and providing a framework for new lines of enquiry. It is organized around six themes: I. Historical Perspectives, II. Methodologies, III. Core Issues and Topics, IV. Individuals, Collectives and Communities, V. Politics, Discourse and Ideology and VI. New Directions and Debates.

The Moving Blade

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
ISBN 13 : 1942410174
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Moving Blade written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations. After his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics. With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from Tokyo’s back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to the gates of an American naval base. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim—and the past.

Beauty and Chaos

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1942410034
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and Chaos written by Michael Pronko and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether contemplating Tokyo's odd-shaped bonsai houses, endless walls of bottles, pachinko parlors, chopstick ballet or the perilous habit of running for trains, the essays in Beauty and Chaos explore Tokyo from the inside to reveal its deeper meanings and show why Tokyo is the most amazing, confusing city in the world. Starting with observations and ending with insights, these essays dig into the ever-present but overlooked slices and morsels of daily life in the world's biggest city. In turns comic, philosophic, descriptive and exasperated, the essays in this collection won acclaim in Japan from Tokyo readers. Beneath Tokyo's perplexing exterior, there's meaning to the frantic swirl. By untangling the contradictions of the city and opening inner connections, Tokyo emerges a fascinating place of chaotic commotion, but serene, human-scale beauty, too. If you're traveling to Tokyo, these essays open up the sense and significance of life in this fast-paced, high-rise megalopolis. If you've ever considered going to Tokyo, these essays will give you more reasons to go, and ways to consider the city when you're there. Originally published in Japanese, these concise, pointed essays are available in English for the first time. Part travelogue, part comparative culture, and all creative essay, Beauty and Chaos taps the mystery of Tokyo and lets the meanings flow. "e;Japanese who are used to Tokyo are caught off guard by his conclusions derived from careful observation, and are struck dumb...Tokyo, the city we are so careless of, suddenly starts to become glorious. It is a wonder!"e; Chunichi Shimbun (Newspaper) (translated from review of Japanese version)"e;Giving up the bias and seeing the city with completely different standards, you will see the unexpected, attractive face of Tokyo. This book is a guide for rediscovering Tokyo that lets us see the city with unique new features."e; Nikkan Gendai (Newspaper) (translated from review of Japanese version)Japanese version available from KADOKAWA Publishers as: a *aa E a aa a aa'ae-'aa(TM)aa zaaa a a -a -a ae'-)

Music in the Making of Modern Japan

Author : Kei Hibino
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030738272
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Music in the Making of Modern Japan written by Kei Hibino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the notion of “affective media” within and across different arts in Japan, with a primary focus on music, whether as standalone product or connected to other genres such as theatre and photography. The volume explores the Japanese reception of this “affective media”, its transformation and subsequent cultural flow. Moving from a discussion of early encounters with the West through Jesuits and others, the contributors primarily consider the role of music in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. With ten original chapters, the volume covers a wealth of themes, from education, koto music, guitar making, avant-garde recorder works, musicals and rock photography, to interviews with contemporary performers in jazz, modern rock and J-pop. Innovative and fascinating, the book provides rich new insights and material to all those interested in Japanese musical culture.

Motions and Moments

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1942410107
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Motions and Moments written by Michael Pronko and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motions and Moments: More Essays on TokyoMotions and Moments is the third book by Michael Pronko on the fluid feel and vibrant confusions of Tokyo life. These 42 new essays burrow into the unique intensities that suffuse the city and ponder what they mean to its millions of inhabitants. Based on Pronko's 18 years living, teaching and writing in Tokyo, these essays on how Tokyoites work, dress, commute, eat and sleep are steeped in insights into the city's odd structures, intricate pleasures and engaging undertow. Included are essays on living to size and loving the crowd, on Tokyo's dizzying uncertainties and daily satisfactions, and on the 2011 earthquake. As in his first two books, this collection captures the ceaseless flow and passing flashes of life in biggest city in the world with gentle humor and rich detail. Praise for the first collection, Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life:"e;A clear-eyed but affectionate portrait of a city that reaches beyond simple stereotypes. An elegantly written, precisely observed portrait of a Japanese city and its culture."e; Kirkus Reviews"e;Beauty and Chaos is a spectacular read. Its essays are long enough to be cohesive and provocative while remaining short and sweet. The collection is masterful and unique."e; Stephanie Chandler, SPR Review"e;He notices the kinds of things that might be taken for granted by the Japanese and overlooked entirely by visitors."e; Rebecca Foster, The BookbagGold Award First Place for Cultural Non-Fiction (Reader's Favorite Awards 2015)Gold Award (Non-Fiction Authors Association 2015)Praise for the second collection, Tokyo's Mystery Deepens: Essays on Tokyo:"e;As chapters flow through Tokyo cultural experiences, readers receive a rare glimpse of the structure and nature of Tokyo's underlying psyche. It's a powerful, intimate consideration of many aspects of Japanese culture."e; D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review"e;An insider's view of what life is really like in this pulsing, densely populated Asian metropolis...this little book of short, easy to read essays delivers to its readers an education."e; Vera A. Pereskokova Luxury Reading Blog"e;Could one have a better guide? Anyone planning to work and live in Tokyo for a period of time will find Pronko indispensable."e; BookReview.com"e;Tokyo's Mystery Deepens is so much more than just a guidebook to Tokyo...it actually plunges into the minuscule details of what it is like to be a Tokyoite."e; OnlineBookClub.orgGold Award for Creative Non-Fiction (eLit Awards 2015)Silver Award for Travel Essay (eLit Award 2015)

Shitamachi Scam

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
ISBN 13 : 1942410301
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Shitamachi Scam written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tokyo, there isn't always respect for older people. Sometimes, it's the opposite. After the suspicious deaths of a seventy-something woman and a student recluse, Detective Hiroshi tracks down a gang of scammers who target retirees, robbing them of their pensions, life savings, and even the deeds to their homes. Hiroshi teams up with Detective Ishii, who’s been running a women’s crime task force. Together, they find out who has been ripping off the pensions, life savings, and deeds to homes in shitamachi, the older, eastern side of the city. With his personal life on hold (almost), Hiroshi finds out how complex the traditional life of Tokyo still is. With old-school Detective Takamatsu and ex-sumo wrestler Chief Sakaguchi watching his back, he finds out who’s behind the scams, and who’s behind the scammers.

Azabu Getaway

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
ISBN 13 : 1942410263
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Azabu Getaway written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money isn’t everything. It’s the deadly thing. After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo’s wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo’s elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager. The abducted girls are the daughters of an international couple who seemed to have it all—a large apartment in the high-end Azabu district, top schools for the children, and a life of happy affluence. Their life falls apart and they are swept up in threats and pursuits for reasons they cannot fathom. Tracking the money and tracking the two daughters leads Hiroshi into Tokyo’s murky financial past and outside Japan’s borders as he discovers how overseas investments and tax shelters are really managed. Hiroshi works with Sakaguchi and Takamatsu and others on the homicide team, including an assertive new detective, as they confront greed and violence in one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Azabu Getaway is the fifth novel in the award-winning Detective Hiroshi series.

Tokyo Heist

Author : Diana Renn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142426547
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Heist written by Diana Renn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect mystery for fans of Ally Carter's Heist Society When sixteen-year-old Violet agrees to spend the summer with her father, an up-and-coming artist in Seattle, she has no idea what she's walking into. Her father's newest clients, the Yamada family, are the victims of a high-profile art robbery: van Gogh sketches have been stolen from their home, and, until they can produce the corresponding painting, everyone's lives are in danger--including Violet's and her father's. Violet's search for the missing van Gogh takes her from the Seattle Art Museum, to the yakuza-infested streets of Tokyo, to a secluded inn in Kyoto. As the mystery thickens, Violet's not sure whom she can trust. But she knows one thing: she has to solve the mystery--before it's too late.

Vietnam's Prodigal Heroes

Author : Paul Benedikt Glatz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179361671X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Prodigal Heroes written by Paul Benedikt Glatz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes examines the critical role of desertion in the international Vietnam War debate. Paul Benedikt Glatz traces American deserters’ odyssey of exile and activism in Europe, Japan, and North America to demonstrate how their speaking out and unprecedented levels of desertion in the US military changed the traditional image of the deserter.

More of the World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries

Author : Graham Hodson
Publisher : Rockwood Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book More of the World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries written by Graham Hodson and published by Rockwood Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in “More of the World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries", the enthralling sequel that deepens the enigma of the unknown. This is a beacon for those drawn to the shadows of the unexplained, offering new mysteries to unravel and secrets that defy conventional wisdom. Crafted with precision, this book presents a collection of cases that have baffled the brightest minds. These stories are a mosaic of the human experience, blending the historical with the contemporary, the scientific with the mystical, and the factual with the speculative. Embark on a global odyssey that spans the sands of time, where each chapter unfolds a narrative that bridges the gap between the tangible and the inexplicable, challenging the boundaries of reality. Prepare to be captivated once again as you explore the latest collection of the world’s most bewildering unsolved mysteries. The stories in this book include: The Circleville Enigma The Polybius Puzzle Vanished in the Fog Encounters Over the Pacific The Mysterious Demise of Edgar Allan Poe Echoes of a Lost Princess The Alcatraz Escape The Linear A Script Vanished Prodigy Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) Kryptos The Secrets of Area 51 The Enigma of the Babushka Lady The Dighton Rock Inscriptions The Longyou Caves The Antikythera Mechanism The Sajama Lines Göbekli Tepe The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa The Sailing Stones of Death Valley Whispers in the Fields Jazz and Blood A Silent Heist Into the Green Abyss A Conqueror's End A Writer's Eclipse A Hero's Silence Lost and Found? Vanished in New Guinea The Enigma of the Man from Taured Shadows on the Green River Blood on Valentine's Day Who Is Banksy? Vanished Melody Vanished in the Night Echoes of the Unknown Beneath the Waves The Digital Enigma A Genetic Frontier Echoes in the Hallways Vanishing Act The Invisible Thread Lost in the Snow The Tragic Death of Diana, Princess of Wales Abysses of the Arctic The Mind of the Machine Shadow of an Aristocrat

Occupied City

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307276511
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Occupied City written by David Peace and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary and highly original crime novel” (New York Times Book Review) that plunges us into post–World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon–like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime. “Hugely daring, utterly irresistible, deeply serious and unlike anything I have ever read.”—New York Times Book Review On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the “official” has fled.... Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks, for all the victims, from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an American occupier, the testimony of a traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an “occult detective,” a Soviet soldier, a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. Occupied City immerses us in an extreme time and place with a brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious work of fiction from a singular writer.

Anime Classics Zettai!

Author : Brian Camp
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611725194
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Anime Classics Zettai! written by Brian Camp and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anime connoisseurs, beginners, and the curious, the best of the best!

Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot

Author : Frederick P. Close
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810874660
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot written by Frederick P. Close and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Trapped in Tokyo during the war and forced to broadcast on Japanese radio, Toguri steadfastly refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship and surreptitiously aided Allied POWs. Despite these patriotic actions, she foolishly identified herself to the press after the war as Tokyo Rose. This book assembles a collection of images from American pre-war popular culture that provided impetus for the legend of Tokyo Rose and analyzes the wartime situation of servicemen, which caused their imaginations to create the mythical femme fatale even though no Japanese announcer ever used the name Tokyo Rose.