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Behind the Japanese Mask

Author : Robert Craigie
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125359
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Japanese Mask written by Robert Craigie and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the Japanese Mask tells the story of political events in Japan leading up to and during World War II, as told by the British Ambassador in Japan from 1937-1941 himself, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie. “THIS BOOK IS IN NO SENSE AN OFFICIAL RECORD. IT IS RATHER AN ATTEMPT, made without reference to official documents and after three years of mature reflection, to disentangle from avoidable detail the sequence of political events in Japan which led up to the war; to record the main developments in Anglo-Japanese relations during that time; and to follow the intricacies of the struggle in Japan between those who favoured this war of aggression and those who worked against it. Interspersed with political matters I have given accounts of our personal experiences, not because I regard them as intrinsically important, but rather in the hope that they may help to give body to the general impressions formed during those five critical years in Japan. The views expressed are purely my own and in no way commit His Majesty’s Government. “‘Know thine enemy’ is a good precept for those who have been engaged on a life-and-death struggle with a foe who is as inscrutable as he has often shown himself to be unscrupulous. If this book can add but a little to the sum of that knowledge, I shall be more than satisfied.”—Sir Robert Leslie Craigie

Behind the Japanese Mask--

Author : Jonathan Rice
Publisher : How To Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781857039689
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Japanese Mask-- written by Jonathan Rice and published by How To Books Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title concerns the Farnham Castle Centre for International Briefing, widely acknowledged as the world's leading provider of intercultural management training and briefing. It has an unmatched reputation for helping individuals, partners and their families to prepare to live and work effectively anywhere in the world. CONTENTS: 1. The Japanese Mask 2. The Japanese Archipelago 3. Japan Past 4. The Cultural Values of Japan 5. The Japanese Language 6. The Japanese Economy 7. The Business World 8. Negotiating with the Japanese 9. Experiencing Japan

Behind the Mask

Author : Liana Burke
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492710608
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask written by Liana Burke and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meg has had enough. No longer does she want to be Megan Stark the model. She wants to be plain old Meg the girl she kept hidden behind the glittery mask. The wedding of one of her best friends brings home to her just how empty her life is, she realises she needs a completely new direction. The man she's loved for longer than she cared to remember sees her as just a friend and not even a particularly close friend. Meg decides it's time to bite the bullet and show him that beneath the shiny surface she is the perfect woman for him.

Japanese No Masks

Author : Friedrich Perzynski
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486141284
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Japanese No Masks written by Friedrich Perzynski and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural beings. Captions.

Confessions of a Mask

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201186
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Mask written by Yukio Mishima and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

Behind the Japanese Mask

Author : Jesse Frederick Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Japanese Mask written by Jesse Frederick Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic characteristics of the Japanese people, by an American who taught in a Japanese College for seven years.

Looking Beyond the Mask

Author : Nancy Brown Diggs
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450703
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Looking Beyond the Mask written by Nancy Brown Diggs and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with women in cross-cultural marriages, offering a unique insight into Japanese life.

Kissing the Mask

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061228494
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Kissing the Mask written by William T. Vollmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central, a charming, evocative and piercing examination of an ancient Japanese tradition and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty What is a woman? To what extent is femininity a performance? Writing with the extra-ordinary awareness and endless curiosity that have defined his entire oeuvre, William T. Vollmann takes an in-depth look at the Japanese craft of Noh theater, using the medium as a prism to reveal the conception of beauty itself. Sweeping readers from the dressing room of one of Japan's most famous Noh actors to a trans-vestite bar in the red-light district of Kabukicho, Kissing the Mask explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries. Vollmann then widens his scope to encompass such modern artists of desire and loss as Mishima, Kawabata and Andrew Wyeth. From old Norse poetry to Greek cult statues, from elite geisha dancers to American makeup artists, from Serbia to India, Vollmann uncovers secrets of staged femininity and mysteries of perceived and expressed beauty, including specific makeup procedures furnished by an L.A. transgender bar girl, a Kabuki female impersonator, and the owner of a semi-clandestine studio for Tokyo cross-dressers. Kissing the Mask is illustrated with many evocative sketches and photographs by the author.

Hidden Faces

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810561031
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Faces written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japan Dreams

Author : Mark Peters
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468939610
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Japan Dreams written by Mark Peters and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A traveller comes to Japan and is slowly absorbed into a complex and increasingly unnerving interplay of reality, representation, substitution, the virtual, the artificial, the counterfeit and the unreal. In form, 'Japan Dreams' is loosely modelled on 'Pillow Book' by Sei Shonagon and 'As I crossed a bridge of dreams' by Lady Sarashina, both written c. 1000 AD. The narrative moves between travelogue, meditation, exploration of ideas, discourse on various subjects, dreams, lists, and introspection. Fact and fiction become harder to separate as the story unfolds. What starts as straightforward documentary metamorphoses into chaotic self-absorption, and the reader is left examining the very same question examined by the narrator: is this real? A very personal first-person account, 'Japan Dreams' touches on numerous aspects of Japanese culture: arts and heritage, attitudes to time and space, sexuality, language, technology, media, entertainment, identity and self, values, family, city and country life, and religion.

Behind the Mask

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250033950
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask written by Matthew Dennison and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but ‘open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita's literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain. Dennison is the acclaimed author of many books including a biography of Queen Victoria. Here, in the first biography to be written of Vita for thirty years, he reveals the whole story and gets behind ‘the beautiful mask' of Vita's public achievements to reveal an often troubled persona which heroically resisted compromise on every level. Drawing on wideranging sources and the extensive letters that sustained her marriage, this is a compelling story of love, loss and jealousy, of high-life and low points, of binding affection and illicit passion – a portrait of an extraordinary, 20th-century life.

Evil and the Mask

Author : Fuminori Nakamura
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616953705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Evil and the Mask written by Fuminori Nakamura and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012's critically acclaimed The Thief─another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity─and the powerful human instinct to resist evil. When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. "I created you to be a cancer on the world," his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to cause misery in a world that cannot be controlled or saved. From this point on, Fumihiro will be specially educated to learn to create as much destruction and unhappiness in the world around him as a single person can. Between his education in hedonism and his family's resources, Fumihiro's life is one without repercussions. Every door is open to him, for he need obey no laws and may live out any fantasy he might have, no matter how many people are hurt in the process. But as his education progresses, Fumihiro begins to question his father's mandate, and starts to resist.

Kabuki

Author : David Mack
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781587279997
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Kabuki written by David Mack and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Origami Masks Step by Step

Author : Michael G. LaFosse
Publisher : PowerKids Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823967032
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Making Origami Masks Step by Step written by Michael G. LaFosse and published by PowerKids Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instruction in creating a variety of paper facemasks with origami.

The Unseen Face of Japan

Author : David C. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908860033
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Unseen Face of Japan written by David C. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The things which are right in front of us can often be the things which are most hidden. In Japan, the word omote means 'face'. But it also means 'mask' - something that a person uses to hide an inner reality. Face-value questions - 'Are the Japanese religious?' 'What do they believe?' - produce face-value answers. We need to delve deeper. This book explores the motivations behind why Japanese people act in a 'religious' way, based on what ordinary people say about their attitudes and experiences. In the process it also uncovers core values within Japanese culture. By understanding these motivations and values, we discover that the Son of Man came not to destroy Japanese culture but to fulfil it. This fully revised and updated edition includes data from the latest surveys of Japanese attitudes, church statistics, and the most recent research into Japanese society and religion.

The Face of Another

Author : Kobo Abe
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030781372X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Face of Another written by Kobo Abe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self–a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract, The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.

The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma

Author : Emily Roxworthy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824865049
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma written by Emily Roxworthy and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma, Emily Roxworthy contests the notion that the U.S. government’s internment policies during World War II had little impact on the postwar lives of most Japanese Americans. After the curtain was lowered on the war following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans behaved as if the “theatre of war” had ended and life could return to normal. Roxworthy demonstrates that this theatrical logic of segregating the real from the staged, the authentic experience from the political display, grew out of the manner in which internment was agitated for and instituted by the U.S. government and media. During the war, Japanese Americans struggled to define themselves within the web of this theatrical logic, and they continue to reenact this trauma in public and private to this day. The political spectacles staged by the FBI and the American mass media were heir to a theatricalizing discourse that can be traced back to Commodore Matthew Perry’s “opening” of Japan in 1853. Westerners, particularly Americans, drew upon it to orientalize—disempower, demonize, and conquer—those of Japanese descent, who were characterized as natural-born actors who could not be trusted. Roxworthy provides the first detailed reconstruction of the FBI’s raids on Japanese American communities, which relied on this discourse to justify their highly choreographed searches, seizures, and arrests. Her book also makes clear how wartime newspapers (particularly those of the notoriously anti-Asian Hearst Press) melodramatically framed the evacuation and internment so as to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with their former neighbors of Japanese descent. Roxworthy juxtaposes her analysis of these political spectacles with the first inclusive look at cultural performances staged by issei and nisei (first- and second-generation Japanese Americans) at two of the most prominent “relocation centers”: California’s Manzanar and Tule Lake. The camp performances enlarge our understanding of the impulse to create art under oppressive conditions. Taken together, wartime political spectacles and the performative attempts at resistance by internees demonstrate the logic of racial performativity that underwrites American national identity. The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma details the complex formula by which racial performativity proved to be a force for both oppression and resistance during World War II.