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Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book The Tokio Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book The Tokio Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Whiting
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375724893
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Tokyo Underworld written by Robert Whiting and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-09-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this unorthodox chronicle of the rise of Japan, Inc., Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, gives us a fresh perspective on the economic miracle and near disaster that is modern Japan. Through the eyes of Nick Zappetti, a former GI, former black marketer, failed professional wrestler, bungling diamond thief who turned himself into "the Mafia boss of Tokyo and the king of Rappongi," we meet the players and the losers in the high-stakes game of postwar finance, politics, and criminal corruption in which he thrived. Here's the story of the Imperial Hotel diamond robbers, who attempted (and may have accomplished) the biggest heist in Tokyo's history. Here is Rikidozan, the professional wrestler who almost single-handedly revived Japanese pride, but whose own ethnicity had to be kept secret. And here is the story of the intimate relationships shared by Japan's ruling party, its financial combines, its ruthless criminal gangs, the CIA, American Big Business, and perhaps at least one presidential relative. Here is the underside of postwar Japan, which is only now coming to light.
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book The Japan Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1144 pages
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Download or read book Japan Times. Weekly Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Whitney Hall
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Japan, from Prehistory to Modern Times written by John Whitney Hall and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 1991 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies No. 7
Author : Anna Sherman
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529000475
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Bells of Old Tokyo written by Anna Sherman and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 'Sherman’s is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has, every question she asks, every detail she notices, offers something. The Bells of Old Tokyo is a gift . . . It is a masterpiece.' - The Spectator A hauntingly original book about Tokyo and the Japanese relationship to time, memory and history. For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the time. In her remarkable book, Anna Sherman tells of her search for the bells of Edo, exploring the city of Tokyo and its inhabitants and the individual and particular relationship of Japanese culture - and the Japanese language - to time, tradition, memory, impermanence and history. Through Sherman’s journeys around the city, The Bells of Old Tokyo presents a series of hauntingly memorable voices in the labyrinth of the Japanese capital: An aristocrat plays in the sea of ashes left by the Allied firebombing of 1945. A scientist builds the most accurate clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a second in five billion years. A sculptor eats his father’s ashes while the head of the house of Tokugawa reflects on the destruction of his grandfather’s city. 'This mesmerising cultural history explores the neighbourhoods where Tokyo's bells once rang . . . As our own locked-down days squeeze and elongate, Tokyo time feels strangely familiar.’ - Daily Telegraph
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Japan Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert B. Johnson
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462912850
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Times-Square Samurai written by Robert B. Johnson and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years of story-telling have passed since American troops first "occupied" themselves in Japan--years of storing up, savoring, and enlarging on those zany GI escapades that are responsible for prolonging many a coffee break and extending many a "just for a quickie" bar stop. Today, little reality remains in the stories even for the chest thumping vet, let alone his breathless listeners. But here's where Bob Johnson and Bill Chadbourne--vets themselves--put a little perspective back into those occupation memories with this rib-tickling cartoon account of what actually happened…with a major switch. The shoe, or in this case the geta, is on the other foot and it is New York that is imaginatively occupied by the Japanese. This turn-about is sure to give the GI a look at himself that he has never seen before. It will also introduce his heretofore unwary listeners to the real occupation story, the one responsible for adding a new, rollicking chapter to American humor.
Author : Time Out Guides Ltd
Publisher : Time Out
ISBN 13 : 9781846707179
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Time Out Tokyo 7th Edition written by Time Out Guides Ltd and published by Time Out. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokyo is a city that evolves with breath-taking pace, thanks largely to a local obsession with renewal and innovation. Spectacular restaurants and bars, with designs from Tokyo's young hotshots, are opening across the city, and the luxury hotel scene is buzzing. Yet in the midst of this consumer frenzy, the traditional Tokyo is also enjoying a renaissance. Zen practices are making a comeback and traditional Japanese design is now all the rage. With foreign interest in Japan showing no signs of waning, Time Out Tokyo is the most reliable commentator on its dazzlingly fast paced, ever-changing capital. The Tokyo city guide includes: Full colour photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place Handy pull-out Tokyo map Extensive area guides not only cover the sightseeing in Tokyo, but also restaurants, bars and shops - all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter Top 20 list of the must-see highlights Itineraries to help you plan your visit Critic's choices pick out the best Tokyo sights, experiences and cultural highlights - at a glance All Tokyo restaurants and bars have been visited and reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way Tokyo hotels independently reviewed The revamped Time Out Guides retain the independence and local expertise that the series is known for, while adding more features to help the visitor navigate the city. Whether you have an action-packed 24 hours or a leisurely week in which to take it all in, these guides are more essential than ever.
Author : Editors of Time Out
Publisher : Time Out Guides
ISBN 13 : 184670121X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Time Out Tokyo written by Editors of Time Out and published by Time Out Guides. This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Tokyo covers accommodation, food and drink, the sights, museums, art galleries and architecture, and the entertainments available. Information is given on opening times, admission prices and transport.
Author : Robert J . Collins
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462904068
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book More Max Danger written by Robert J . Collins and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life with Max Danger is never dull— as all readers of the first, best-selling volume of his adventures as an expatriate in Tokyo will know. Somehow he muddles his way from one baffling episode in the on-going struggle with the "Japanese economic-animal kingdom" to another. And he miraculously stays a half-step ahead in the series of events that has swept him along through the pages of the Tokyo Weekender fortnightly for past three and a half years. "Mr. Collins is a funny writer with a knack for putting his finger exactly what it is that makes Japan bewildering, enduring, amusing inspiring, frustrating and, most of the time, captivating for many of its foreign guest." —The New York Times Review of Books "The stories are well written, neither unfair nor unkind and the humor is just about universal. This is a book of entertainment with an underlying fondness for what laughs at" —The Japan Times "If you are one of those people who feel inundated by the proliferation of how-to-do-business-in-Japan books, here's a chance to learn the same lessons by negative example and have belly laughs all the while" —The Asian Wall Street Journal "Max Danger is wondrously funny, friendly book." —Mainichi Daily News
Author : William J. Craig
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504021339
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Fall of Japan written by William J. Craig and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “virtually faultless” account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (The New York Times Book Review). By midsummer 1945, Japan had long since lost the war in the Pacific. The people were not told the truth, and neither was the emperor. Japanese generals, admirals, and statesmen knew, but only a handful of leaders were willing to accept defeat. Most were bent on fighting the Allies until the last Japanese soldier died and the last city burned to the ground. Exhaustively researched and vividly told, The Fall of Japan masterfully chronicles the dramatic events that brought an end to the Pacific War and forced a once-mighty military nation to surrender unconditionally. From the ferocious fighting on Okinawa to the all-but-impossible mission to drop the 2nd atom bomb, and from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White House to the Tokyo bunker where tearful Japanese leaders first told the emperor the truth, William Craig captures the pivotal events of the war with spellbinding authority. The Fall of Japan brings to life both celebrated and lesser-known historical figures, including Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the brash commander who drew up the Yamamoto plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor and inspired the death cult of kamikaze pilots., This astonishing account ranks alongside Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day and John Toland’s The Rising Sun as a masterpiece of World War II history.
Author : Stefan Tanaka
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826241
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book New Times in Modern Japan written by Stefan Tanaka and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. This set off a cascade of changes that completely reconfigured how humans interacted with each other and with their environment--a process whose analysis carries implications for other non-Western societies as well. By examining topics ranging from geology, ghosts, childhood, art history, and architecture to nature as a whole, Stefan Tanaka explores how changing conceptions of time destabilized inherited knowledge and practices and ultimately facilitated the reconfiguration of the archipelago's heterogeneous communities into the liberal-capitalist nation-state, Japan. However, this revolutionary transformation--where, in the words of Lewis Mumford, "the clock, not the steam engine," is the key mechanism of the industrial age--has received little more than a footnote in the history of Japan. This book's innovative focus on time not only shifts attention away from debates about the failure (or success) of "modernization" toward how individuals interact with the overlay of abstract concepts upon their lives; it also illuminates the roles of history as discourse and as practice in this reconfiguration of society. In doing so, it will influence discussions about modernity well beyond the borders of Japan.
Author : Chris Broad
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1529907276
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Abroad in Japan written by Chris Broad and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory..Endlessly fascinating!' Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues 'Carves a unique path across Japan bringing him into contact with far too many cats, heartening renewal in Tohoku, and even pizza with Ken Watanabe.' Iain Maloney, author of The Only Gaijin in the Village 'Fascinating, fact-packed and very funny..An excellent and enjoyable read for the Japan-curious. I loved it and learned a lot.' Sam Baldwin, author of For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures. Spanning ten years and all forty-seven prefectures, Chris takes us from the lush rice fields of the countryside to the frenetic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a mortifying experience at a love hotel and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun. Number one Sunday Times bestseller, August 2023
Author : Shogo Oketani
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727014211
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)
Download or read book J-Boys written by Shogo Oketani and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japan, preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are underway, and adults wax nostalgic about the first Tokyo Olympics in 1964, as well as the economic boom years of the 1960s. The younger generation is curious about the first Olympics and how things changed in Japan then. What was it like to be a child at that time, and why should we care now? "J-Boys, Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965" follows the adventures of a third-grade student named Kazuo and his friends. Obsessed with U.S. sprinter Bob Hayes, American TV shows, and tasting a "real" American hamburger, Kazuo also bathes in public baths, buys tofu for his family, and looks forward to flying New Year's kites. As he grows, he observes the lingering effects of World War II on his changing world. As you read "J-Boys," you'll see Kazuo train to race like Hayes, help his brother Yasuo check on a stray dog, guess the school lunch menu, worry about grades, and spend time with friends. You'll see him toss beans for the Setsubun holiday, meet a yakuza, and get nervous about girls. You'll discover stories about his parents, who were children when Japan was at war. In one chapter, Kazuo meets a bereaved woman who lost her son in a battle. In another, he ponders Japan's actions against Korea, which lead to school bullying. And Kazuo wonders about the smog that fills the Tokyo sky as Japan grows, and about how TV has eclipsed the local movie theater that showed Godzilla. He even finds out about foreign places-home of Christmas, the Beatles, Popeye the Sailor and the Vietnam War. As you explore Kazuo's world of Tokyo in the mid-1960s, you may find it different than-or surprisingly similar to-your own. Set in West Ito, a fictional working-class district of downtown Tokyo, the stories in "J-Boys" illuminate various aspects of daily life early in the period of postwar economic growth, including a widespread fascination with Western culture among youth and the economic and psychological repercussions of World War II. "J-Boys" tells the story of one boy's coming of age, while introducing topics including aspects of traditional Japan, the influence of U.S. culture, daily life in the 1960s, and social concerns such as migrant workers and bullying. Weighty topics (urban expansion, the effects of war) balance with lighter ones (rock and roll, school lunches) to create a book that interests readers while inciting curiosity about social issues and how things will change with the next Olympics in 2020. Praise for "J-Boys, Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965" "Created with great affection and skill." --Donald Richie "A fascinating and endearing work."--Graham Salisbury, author of "Under the Blood-Red Sun," winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction "J-Boys attains something akin to sublime joy. It joins the ranks of classics like Marjorie Rawling's "The Yearling" and John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony. "--Peter Tieryas Liu, author of "The United States of Japan" and "Mecha Samurai Empire" "A historical lesson for readers of all ages."--JQ Magazine "A sushi plate of delicious morsels."--Margi Preus, author of "The Heart of a Samurai" "Deep and lasting insights."--Holly Thompsonm author of "Orchards" "Deftly explores the inevitability of change and the search for identity."- Nichibei Weekly "With a kind of "Stand by Me" feel, "J-Boys" perfectly captures universal concerns of fitting in and growing up."-Kids' Home Library "Adult readers will find Kazuo's mid-1960s world a valuable key to the mystery of the Tokyo we know today."--Kyoto Journal "An anecdote-rich meditation on the past." --The Japan Times
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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Law Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
