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Gaijin Diary

Author : Michael Boiano
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720711407
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Gaijin Diary written by Michael Boiano and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Japanese-style tanka poems penned by Michael Boiano under his own name and under the pen-name Aziz while living in Japan and Thailand. Most have appeared in various little journals in Japan. "As a longtime avid reader of Classical Japanese and Chinese poetry, I've always been amazed at Michael's ability to blend a classical sentiment within a modern context. A seeming homage to a past poetic style can take an abrupt, ironic turn into a sudden flash of insight. Never far from the surface is a wry sense of humor that jolts the reader into the unpredictability of life's travails. These are songs of love and regret, the passing of the seasons, mundane observations of daily life transformed into wider truths, with a sensitive ear for spoken and unspoken thoughts and feelings that underlie the current of everyday life. There is much here to inspire the modern reader in the current and past tradition of Japanese tanka." - Bill Senecal

Tune in Tokyo

Author : Tim Anderson
Publisher : Amazon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781612181318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Tune in Tokyo written by Tim Anderson and published by Amazon Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in slightly different form by Wayward Mammal in 2010.

Gaijin! Gaijin!

Author : Kenneth Fenter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaijin! Gaijin! written by Kenneth Fenter and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Family in Japan. The Fenter family travels from Springfield, Oregon in the summer of 1977 to Isahaya, Kyushu Japan to teach English at Chinzei Gakuin. The family of four: Kenneth 37, Lora 36, Philip 12, and Janelle 8 enter into a world where they are on display and unable to communicate. Gaijin! Gaijin! is a portrait of the people, customs, and traditions of contemporary Japan far from the bustle of of Tokyo.

Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter

Author : Cecile Brun
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462920284
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter written by Cecile Brun and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner Japan International Manga Award* *Honorable Mention for 2018 Freeman Book Awards for Children's and Young Adult's Literature on East and Southeast Asia* *Short-listed for the 2019 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics* Part fantasy, part travelogue--this graphic novel transports readers to the intersection of the natural and supernatural worlds. Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter follows the adventures of two young foreigners as they travel to a remote and mysterious corner of Japan. Along the way, they purchase an old camera that has the unique ability to capture images of Japan's invisible spirit world. Armed with their magical camera, they explore the countryside and meet people who tell them about the forgotten ghosts, ghouls and demons who lie in wait ready to play tricks on them. These Yokai, or supernatural beings, are sometimes kind, sometimes mischievous, and sometimes downright dangerous! Readers young and old will enjoy following along on this journey of mystery and discovery. The comic book format will appeal to anime and manga fans, while introducing the ancient spirit world that is such an important part of Japanese culture. With the help of Atelier Sento's gorgeous watercolor and colored pencil artwork, you can't help but feel immersed in this fantasy.

Yakuza Diary

Author : Christopher Seymour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871136046
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Yakuza Diary written by Christopher Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer who infiltrated the Yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate, reveals their wealth and power, four-hundred-year-old code of conduct, and a cast of characters including bosses and underlings

Nihon Ai

Author : Aimee Major Steinberger
Publisher : Go! Media Entertainment Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781933617831
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Nihon Ai written by Aimee Major Steinberger and published by Go! Media Entertainment Llc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An animator and author on dolls and Japanese popular culture describes her trip to Japan to visit the place where her favorite dolls are made and to see Kyoto and Tokyo, dress up in costumes, eat at theme restaurants, and shop.

Tokyo Central

Author : Seidenstic
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295803746
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Central written by Seidenstic and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Seidensticker, perhaps best know for his translations of modern and classical Japanese novels, including the 11th century Tale of Genji. Seidensticker was introduced to Japan as a young diplomat during the Allied occupation and remained in Tokyo afterwards, befriending many of the luminaries of the Japanese literary scene. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Bicycle Days

Author : John Burnham Schwartz
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787524
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Bicycle Days written by John Burnham Schwartz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alec Stern arrives in Japan, he discovers a land of opportunity. For only in Tokyo could an impressionable young man fresh out of college find, in one stroke, a new job, a new family, and a society that lavishes attention on Japanese-speaking gaijin. Yet, even as Alec claims a place in this new world, he is haunted by memories of the one he left behind—a world once infinitely secure but which disintegrated with the breakup of his parents' marriage. In this incandescently observed novel, John Burnham Schwartz introduces readers to one of the most appealing protagonists in contemporary fiction while enchanting them with the keenness of his eye and the aptness of his voice. Through its exquisitely rendered scenes—a fishing trip of Zen-like serenity; a night at a sex club where giggling businessmen dive into the action—and vividly imagined characters—the laughing mother who taught Alec to ride a bicycle; the beautiful sad Japanese woman who teaches him how to love—Bicycle Days surprises, moves, and enlightens us as very few books do.

My Year of Dirt and Water

Author : Tracy Franz
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729300
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book My Year of Dirt and Water written by Tracy Franz and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married to a Zen monk in training, an American woman in Japan chronicles her own year of growth and discovery In February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan alone—and lonely—in Japan, she begins to pay attention. My Year of Dirt and Water is a record of that journey. Allowed only occasional and formal visits to see her cloistered husband, Tracy teaches English, studies Japanese, and devotes herself to making pottery. Her teacher instructs her to turn cup after cup—creating one failure after another. Past and present, East and West intertwine as Tracy is twice compelled to return home to Alaska to confront her mother’s newly diagnosed cancer and the ghosts of a devastating childhood. Revolving through the days, My Year of Dirt and Water circles hard questions: What is love? What is art? What is practice? What do we do with the burden of suffering? The answers are formed and then unformed—a ceramic bowl born on the wheel and then returned again and again to dirt and water.

Dear Diary Boy

Author : Kumiko Makihara
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728922
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Dear Diary Boy written by Kumiko Makihara and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan's top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. Taro would wear the historic dark blue uniform and learn alongside other little Einsteins while she basked in the glory of his high achievements with the other perfect moms. Together they would climb the rungs into the country's successful elite. But it didn't turn out that way. Taro had other things in mind.While set in Japan, their struggles in the school's hyper-competitive environment mirror those faced by parents here in the US and raise the same questions about the best way to educate a child—especially one that doesn’t quite fit the mold. Public or private? Competitive or nurturing? Standardized or individualized. Helicopter parenting or free-range? Amid this frenzied debate, how does one find balance and maintain a healthy parent-child relationship? Dear Diary Boy is an intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's experience in a prestigious private Tokyo school. It's a tale that will resonate with all parents as we try to answer the age-old questions of how best to educate our children and what, truly, is in their best interests versus what is in our own.

2019

Author : Molly Elodie Rose
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781790504688
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book 2019 written by Molly Elodie Rose and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What better home for your notes, thoughts, plans and doodles that this journal? Wondering how to start journaling? Buy this book, pick up a pen or pencil and start your personal journey

Tokyo on Foot

Author : Florent Chavouet
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906400
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo on Foot written by Florent Chavouet and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what really defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, "Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the multicolor pencils of his kit, he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city in this truly vital portrait.

The Women I Think About at Night

Author : Mia Kankimäki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982129204
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Women I Think About at Night written by Mia Kankimäki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women’s studies, and travelogue” (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa fame—lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can’t Mia? The Women I Think About at Night is “an astute, entertaining…[and] insightful” (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see—and change—the world.

Looking for the Lost

Author : Alan Booth
Publisher : Vertical Inc
ISBN 13 : 1568366159
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Looking for the Lost written by Alan Booth and published by Vertical Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A VIBRANT, MEDITATIVE WALK IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL OF JAPAN Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far removed from the stereotypes familiar to Westerners. Whether retracing the footsteps of ancient warriors or detailing the encroachments of suburban sprawl, he unerringly finds the telling detail, the unexpected transformation, the everyday drama that brings this remote world to life on the page. Looking for the Lost is full of personalities, from friendly gangsters to mischievous children to the author himself, an expatriate who found in Japan both his true home and dogged exile. Wry, witty, sometimes angry, always eloquent, Booth is a uniquely perceptive guide. Looking for the Lost is a technicolor journey into the heart of a nation. Perhaps even more significant, it is the self-portrait of one man, Alan Booth, exquisitely painted in the twilight of his own life.

Diary of An Expat in Singapore

Author : Jennifer Gargiulo
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814516732
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Diary of An Expat in Singapore written by Jennifer Gargiulo and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious new book records the tongue-in-cheek journey of an expat in Singapore, told through vignettes, snapshots and Top 10 lists: “10 sure signs you’re in a Singapore taxi”; “Things first-time visitors to Singapore say”; “10 signs you’ve overstayed”; “Politically-incorrect expat profiling by nationality”; and many more. Based on the author Jennifer Gargiulo’s popular blog of the same name, Diary of an Expat in Singapore packs in a wealth of quirky observations, witty one-liners, and laugh-out-loud misunderstandings as the author tries to adjust to life in a strange new land and raise two kids while at it. Marvel as Jennifer enlists the help of her young son, Alexander (who learns Chinese at school), to find out what her hairdressers are saying about her at the salon! Expats will share many of the experiences of the author told in this book, but few will have heard them told with more humour and flair. And Singaporeans will also find much to enjoy and laugh over, when local customs and foibles are seen anew through the author’s eyes

Gaijin: American Prisoner of War

Author : Matt Faulkner
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1484712137
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Gaijin: American Prisoner of War written by Matt Faulkner and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly realizes that his home in San Francisco is no longer a welcoming one after Pearl Harbor is attacked. And once he's sent to an internment camp, he learns that being half white at the camp is just as difficult as being half Japanese on the streets of an American city during WWII. Koji's story, based on true events, is brought to life by Matt Faulkner's cinematic illustrations that reveal Koji struggling to find his place in a tumultuous world-one where he is a prisoner of war in his own country.

Baka Gaijin

Author : Anime Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781699043707
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Baka Gaijin written by Anime Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notebook Anime Edition The Paperback Notebook with easy-to-use ruling, the clear Table of Contents, the integrated Name Field and the Unique Design is rounded off by a beautiful Matt Premium-Cover with Creme-Colored and Numbered Pages. Best size to take it with you, wherever you want! Perfect gift for every occasion such as birthdays, B-Day or Christmas for grandma, grandpa or sister and brother. As well for your mother on mothersday or for your father on fathers day. Of course for employees, colleagues or rela gentleman and ladies too. Especially suitable as a nice present for loved ones. Use this notebook as a daily planner, annual planner, monthly planner or weekly planner. Of course there is enough space for notes and ideas to quickly capture them on paper. As a calendar or organizer you get the perfect overview of tasks appointments and events. Can also be used as a diary or a journal, for the school or as a note-pad for studying to make quickly your note or notes. During sport you can use this book as a training log, training diary, logbook, sports diary and training journal to document your successes and failures. This will make your training more effective in the long run and you will be more successful. The continuous improvement through mindfulness, self-reflection and gratitude is of course applicable to all areas of life such as hobby, leisure time and work. You want an other ruling? Then click on the author's name above the title. There you will find this cover with further different contents. Dream book not found? Have a look at our other notebooks too! Frequently we publish several designs on one topic. Just click on the author's name! Maybe you'll find what you're looking for!