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Book Synopsis Amazing Japan! by : Boye Lafayette De Mente
Download or read book Amazing Japan! written by Boye Lafayette De Mente and published by Cultural-Insight Books. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is known worldwide for its economic prowess and such iconic symbols as geisha, karaoke, manga, Mt. Fuji, ninja, feudal-age samurai warriors and huge sumo wrestlers. What is not so well-known are its amazing historical artifacts [shrines; temples; castles; the world's largest and oldest wooden buildings; arts and crafts, hundreds of annual festivals that go back nearly two thousand years]; the incredible scenic beauty of its mountains, gorges, rivers, one of the longest and most gorgeous coastlines in the world; and a combined modern and traditional lifestyle that is so fascinating and seductive that exposure to it for just a few days is a mind-altering experience. The author identifies and describes a choice selection of things that make Japan one of the world's most unusual, most intriguing, and most enjoyable travel destinations...things that explain why so many foreigners take up permanent residence there once they have experienced life in this amazing country.
Download or read book Great Japan written by Alfred Stead and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Amazing Arizona! by : Boye Lafayette De Mente
Download or read book Amazing Arizona! written by Boye Lafayette De Mente and published by Cultural-Insight Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona is unique among American states, not only in its geography and geology but also in the diversity of its climate, in its indigenous animal and plant life, and in the history of its first inhabitants-communities of Indians whose ancestors arrived on the scene more than 20,000 years ago. Arizona is also the youngest of the contiguous mainland states of America...precisely because of these very same factors. Its climate, geography and Indian tribes were major barriers that prevented the territory from becoming widely populated by the Spanish, Mexicans and early European-Americans, and from being used as a cross-roads by American fur/pelt trappers, gold prospectors and settlers who began pushing west in the mid-1800s. Now, it is exactly these same factors that make Arizona a great place to live as well as a world-famous travel destination. The stories of how Arizona finally became what it is today are as amazing as the lay and the beauty of the land. Great background reading for residents and visitors alike, and an ideal gift.
Download or read book Ame Goes to Japan written by Mami Bacera and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ame the Cat travels back to the country of his birth, Japan.
Book Synopsis The Genius of Japanese Carpentry by : Azby Brown
Download or read book The Genius of Japanese Carpentry written by Azby Brown and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time, fire and warfare. Although the full monastery reconstruction will not be completed until 2030, one of the main temples, the Picture Hall, has been completely restored employing the same woodworking technology used to create the original building. This new edition of an architectural classic is by Azby Brown—one of the world's leading experts on Japanese architecture. It contains a new preface and many new text materials and photographs—most of them now available in color for the first time. Azby Brown chronicles the painstaking restoration of the temple through extensive interviews with the carpenters and woodworkers along with original drawings based on the plans of master carpenter Tsunekazu Nishioka. An inspiring testament to the dedication of these craftsmen and their philosophy of carpentry work as a form of personal fulfillment, The Genius of Japanese Carpentry offers detailed documentation of this singular project and a moving reminder of the unique cultural continuity found in Japan.
Download or read book Japan written by Boye De Mente and published by Cultural-Insight Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic changes have occurred in Japan's way of doing business since the late 1980s and early 1990s when its economic juggernaut was literally stopped in its tracks. The rapid rise of global competition and te fact that the Japanese real estate and financial industries copied the doomed American practices added to Japan's woes.
Book Synopsis All About Japan by : Willamarie Moore
Download or read book All About Japan written by Willamarie Moore and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!** A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place—and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a girl from the city, take us on a tour of their beloved land through their eyes. They introduce us to their homes, families, favorite places, school life, holidays and more! Celebrate the cherry blossom festival Learn traditional Japanese songs and poems Make easy recipes like mochi (New Year's sweet rice cakes) and okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza or pancakes) Create origami frogs, samurai helmets and more! Beyond the fun and fascinating facts, you'll also learn about the spirit that makes Japan one-of-a-kind. This is a multicultural children's book for families to treasure together.
Book Synopsis Pearl Harbor Amazing Facts by : Timothy B. Benford
Download or read book Pearl Harbor Amazing Facts written by Timothy B. Benford and published by American Book Publishers (NJ). This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique collection of odd, unusual, strange, interesting facts, and little-known items, vignettes, anecdotes, related to the Pearl Harbor attack. Includes 40 warnings, clues, hints. The most comprehensive collection ever of such material. Entertaining and educational.
Download or read book Just Enough written by Azby Brown and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today. If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society by describing life in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo period, when cities and villages faced many of the same environmental challenges we do today and met them beautifully and inventively.
Book Synopsis The Incredible Power of Serendipity! by : Boye De Mente
Download or read book The Incredible Power of Serendipity! written by Boye De Mente and published by Cultural-Insight Books. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Serendipity Shaped the Lifeof Author Boyé Lafayette De MenteThis is the personal memoir of author Boyé Lafayette De Mente, the 4th of ten children born to poor parents in an isolated valley in the Ozark Hills of southeast Missouri, and raised during the Great Depression of the 1930s.He went on to have a remarkable life which he attributes to the incredible power of serendipity. As editor of The IMPORTER magazine in Tokyo in the late 1950s and early 1960s and as the author of numerous pioneer books on the mindset and business practices of the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans he made major contributions to the initial rise of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China as economic superpowers. He played a leading role in helping to launch the career of Thunderbird School of Global Management alumnae brother Merle Hinrichs who became the largest trade magazine publisher in Asia, a major financial donor to Thunderbird and member of the board of directors. And he launched the publishing career of Kentucky hillbilly Larry Flynt who achieved great wealth and notoriety as the publisher of HUSTLER magazine and champion of freedom of speech. [On the day De Mente met Flynt he told his wife that he had just met a 26-year old man who had the intelligence and drive to become president of the United States by the time he was old enough to qualify for the office.] De Mente's encounters and relationships with such extraordinary individuals as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, America's ranking naval officer during World War II; Akio Morita, co-founder and leading light of what was to become the Sony empire; Toshio Karita, former protocol officer for the Imperial Family of Japan; and Daisetzu Suzuki, Japan's leading Zen master, plus many more, were experiences he could not have even dreamed about before they happened. His story is an example of the potential of ordinary individuals to achieve significant things when life presents opportunities and they follow up on them.
Book Synopsis The Japanese Economy: Technology, foreign investment and competition policies by : Peter Drysdale
Download or read book The Japanese Economy: Technology, foreign investment and competition policies written by Peter Drysdale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan by : Robert Pekkanen
Download or read book Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan written by Robert Pekkanen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work collects decades of the best published scholarship in English on the unequivocally most successful political party in Japanese history: the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP). Governing Japan for almost the entirety of the post-war period, the LDP also has a claim to be the most successful political party in any post-war democracy. Seminal articles in this collection explore the key aspects of the LDP: the party’s evolution since its founding in 1955; key facets of the LDP’s internal organization including factions and koenkai; the LDP in policy-making, including its relationship with the bureaucracy and interest groups, as well as its policy-making committee apparatus; and, party leadership, including the premierships of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe.
Book Synopsis Japan and the Shackles of the Past by : R. Taggart Murphy
Download or read book Japan and the Shackles of the Past written by R. Taggart Murphy and published by What Everyone Needs to Know (H. This book was released on 2014 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural perspective"--
Book Synopsis Modern Japan: All That Matters by : Jonathan Clements
Download or read book Modern Japan: All That Matters written by Jonathan Clements and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Clements charts the rise of Japan since the end of World War Two. Presenting the country as the Japanese themselves see it, he explains key issues in national reconstruction, the often-overlooked US Occupation, the influence of the Cold War, student unrest, political scandals, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of the Japanese economy in the late 20th century. He chronicles changes in women's rights and consumer habits, developments in politics, education and health today, and the shadow of nuclear issues from Hiroshima to Fukushima. He also raises topics rarely covered by the foreign media - Japan's ethnic minorities and burakumin underclass, the influence of organised crime and the hard sell behind "soft" power. A final chapter examines the price Japan has paid for its meteoric rise, the problems of a greying population and a declining countryside, and the long-term implications of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. All That Matters about modern Japan. All That Matters books are a fast way to get right to the heart of key issues.
Book Synopsis Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan by : Jeff Kingston
Download or read book Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan written by Jeff Kingston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the freedom of the press and influence how the news is reported. Since Abe returned to power in 2012, the recrudescence of nationalism under his leadership has emboldened right-wing activists and organizations targeting liberal media outlets, journalists, peace museums and ethnic Korean residents in Japan. This ongoing culture war involves the media, school textbooks, constitutional revision, pacifism and security doctrine. This text is divided into five sections that cover: Politics of press freedom; The legal landscape; History and culture; Marginalization; PR, public diplomacy and manipulating opinion. Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan brings together contributions from an international and interdisciplinary line-up of academics and journalists intimately familiar with the current climate, in order to discuss and evaluate these issues and explore potential future outcomes. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Japan and the politics of freedom of expression and transparency in the Abe era. It will appeal to students, academics, Japan specialists, journalists, legal scholars, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and those engaged in human rights, media studies and Asian Studies.
Book Synopsis JAPAN TRAVEL GUIDE 2024 The Ultimate Route to Authentic Ramen and Beyond – Tips, Maps, and Must-Sees for Every Traveler by :
Download or read book JAPAN TRAVEL GUIDE 2024 The Ultimate Route to Authentic Ramen and Beyond – Tips, Maps, and Must-Sees for Every Traveler written by and published by Sora Takai Travel. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you overwhelmed by the thought of planning your journey to Japan? Do phrases like cultural etiquette and yen usage bring more questions than answers? Fear not, traveler! This guide is your surefire solution to navigate the Land of the Rising Sun with the ease of a local. No more guesswork, no more hours lost in research – just pure, exhilarating travel bliss. Inside Your Travel Guide Up-To-Date Get lost in the Tokyo Maze with our 42 meticulously crafted walks, complete with photos, maps, and tips. Discover the Top 10 Tokyo attractions, from the iconic Mt. Fuji to the historic streets of Kyoto and Osaka. Indulge in Cool Japan, where manga, lucky cats, and ramen are just the beginning of your cultural exploration. Embrace Moon Japan and avoid the crowds, uncovering the hidden treasures that make this country a treasure trove for travelers. Practical Magic This guide isn't just about the where and the what; it's about making your journey effortless: Overcome language barriers with our Easy Japanese Phrase Book, boasting common phrases for everyday use and travel. Tackle Transport, Food, Culture, Entertainment with savvy insider tips that guarantee a budget-friendly yet rich experience. Plan with confidence using our Reliable Guide to attractions, cuisine, festivals, and those hidden gems only the locals know about. Best topic in: Comprehensive Japan Guidebook Latest Japan Travel Tips 2024 Japan Itinerary Ideas Authentic Japan Travel Experiences Cultural Exploration in Japan Practical Travel Advice for Japan Discovering Japan: What to Know Up-to-Date Japan Tourism 2024 Essential Japan Travel Handbook Japanese Cultural Insights Guide Must-See Destinations in Japan 2024 Japan Adventure Travel Guide Budget-Friendly Japan Travel Japan Off-the-Beaten-Path Guide Ready for the Adventure? Japan Travel Guide 2024 doesn't just tell you about Japan; it catapults you directly into the heart of this mesmerizing country. With practical tips, reliable recommendations, and deep cultural insights, it's the definitive travel companion for every kind of explorer – from the wide-eyed novice to the seasoned globe-trotter. Your Next Steps Click Buy Now and make Japan Travel Guide 2024 your trusted companion. Say goodbye to the hassle of planning and hello to a journey filled with culture, adventure, and memories that will last a lifetime. Don't just read about Japan – experience it with us, one page at a time. Your odyssey awaits!
Book Synopsis Japan and the United States by : Yukio Okamoto
Download or read book Japan and the United States written by Yukio Okamoto and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2024-12-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For me, Yukio was quite special. Prime Ministers sought his counsel, valued his advice, and were often guided by his views and suggestions." —Richard L. Armitage As one of the most distinguished and gifted Japanese diplomats of his generation, Yukio Okamoto navigated the corridors of power at the highest levels. In Japan and the United States, Okamoto recounts the compelling story of his diplomatic service and his role as a steadfast advocate for strong Japan-United States relations during an era of political crises, war, and fierce economic competition. Okamoto was born in 1945 just two months after Japan surrendered to the Allies ending World War II. During the war, his father served in the infamous Unit 731, a secret research project that committed horrific war crimes in occupied China. Okamoto was deeply affected by his country's devastation and his family's shame. During his 20-year career in the Japanese Foreign Ministry and after he left government, Okamoto was an indispensable advisor to several Japanese prime ministers including Ryutaro Hashimoto, Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. He worked tirelessly to strengthen relations with the United States even as other Japanese government officials advocated for the dismantling of the US-Japan Security Alliance. The survival of this alliance is due in no small part to Okamoto's influence. This book features contributions from former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph S. Nye, who both worked with Okamoto and share their thoughts on his life, career, and legacy as an influential friend of the United States.
