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A Tokyo Romance

Author : Ian Buruma
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981415
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Tokyo Romance written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than a little frightening, and completely unforgettable. If Tokyo was anything like his plays, Buruma knew that he had to join the circus as soon as possible. Tokyo was an astonishment. Buruma found a feverish and surreal metropolis where nothing was understated--neon lights, crimson lanterns, Japanese pop, advertising jingles, and cabarets. He encountered a city in the midst of an economic boom where everything seemed new, aside from the isolated temple or shrine that had survived the firestorms and earthquakes that had levelled the city during the past century. History remained in fragments: the shapes of wounded World War II veterans in white kimonos, murky old bars that Mishima had cruised in, and the narrow alleys where street girls had once flitted. Buruma's Tokyo, though, was a city engaged in a radical transformation. And through his adventures in the world of avant garde theater, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers, and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical transformation of his own. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him. With his signature acuity, Ian Buruma brilliantly captures the historical tensions between east and west, the cultural excitement of 1970s Tokyo, and the dilemma of the gaijin in Japanese society, free, yet always on the outside. The result is a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic, and sexual.

The Brexit Affair

Author : Mark McKay
Publisher : Mark Mckay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brexit Affair written by Mark McKay and published by Mark Mckay. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change Demands Sacrifice It is 2019 and three years after the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, negotiations drag on. Scotland has voted ‘Yes’ to independence and Northern Ireland is about to hold its own referendum on whether to stay in the UK or join the Republic. Britain’s future is uncertain. Nick Severance is on a visit to the UK from Japan when he is contacted by Gabriel Johnston of MI6. One of Johnston’s agents has disappeared after taking delivery of a brand-new computer virus that could seriously damage the UK’s infrastructure. With suspicions of a traitor in Johnston’s team running high, Nick agrees to unofficially assist in tracking down the missing agent. As events unfold, disruption and mayhem are unleashed as part of an experiment in using cyber warfare and terror as a political strategy to change the balance of power in post-Brexit Britain. Can Nick and his friends stop the people behind that strategy before hundreds of innocents are killed? Or will they end up as just so much ‘collateral damage’ instead?

A Tokyo Romance

Author : Ian Buruma
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981423
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Tokyo Romance written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn’t so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than a little frightening, and completely unforgettable. If Tokyo was anything like his plays, Buruma knew that he had to join the circus as soon as possible. Tokyo was an astonishment. Buruma found a feverish and surreal metropolis where nothing was understated—neon lights, crimson lanterns, Japanese pop, advertising jingles, and cabarets. He encountered a city in the midst of an economic boom where everything seemed new, aside from the isolated temple or shrine that had survived the firestorms and earthquakes that had levelled the city during the past century. History remained in fragments: the shapes of wounded World War II veterans in white kimonos, murky old bars that Mishima had cruised in, and the narrow alleys where street girls had once flitted. Buruma’s Tokyo, though, was a city engaged in a radical transformation. And through his adventures in the world of avant garde theater, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers, and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical transformation of his own. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him. With his signature acuity, Ian Buruma brilliantly captures the historical tensions between east and west, the cultural excitement of 1970s Tokyo, and the dilemma of the gaijin in Japanese society, free, yet always on the outside. The result is a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic, and sexual.

Religion and Social Crisis in Japan

Author : Mark R. Mullins
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333772690
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Crisis in Japan written by Mark R. Mullins and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time Aum Shinrikyõ emerged, most Japanese assumed that they lived in one of the most well-ordered and safest societies, a model that had much to offer the chaotic Western world. This assumption was shaken on 20 March 1995 when the deadly nerve gas sarin was released on the Tokyo subway system. Since that incident, the 'Aum affair' has had widespread repercussions and shaken the Japanese psyche in a serious way. This volume provides a window onto contemporary Japanese society by considering the various reactions and responses to this crisis precipitated by this deviant religious movement.

Affair in Tokyo

Author : John McPartland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Affair in Tokyo written by John McPartland and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Japan Daily Mail

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Japan Daily Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tokyo affair

Author : Elena Marton,
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788855025317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book The Tokyo affair written by Elena Marton, and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Japan Chronicle

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japan Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Family Affair

Author : Felipe Corvo
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1667446215
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Family Affair written by Felipe Corvo and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the difficulties experienced in Brazil, the Himura family is faced with an irrefutable proposal; to work as well-paid workers in Japan, since due to the rapid growth of its industries, the country began to need even external labor. So, despite being reticent at first, the Himuras soon packed their bags and ventured to the other side of the continent. But Japan is not Brazil. This is right! And from there, already installed, with the fat salary coming in at the correct date, the story of the metamorphoses takes place that, at first, is characterized only by imperceptible changes on the family axis, but over the years, it completely transforms them. If before, the differences were summarized in questions such as; monthly bills to pay, the education of children, and other such simplicities, now the focus of the discussions has changed, bordering on the breaking up of the family. Was it really worth it?

A Tokyo Odyssey

Author : Graham Thomas
Publisher : SAGUS
ISBN 13 : 1911489348
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book A Tokyo Odyssey written by Graham Thomas and published by SAGUS. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An easily digestible, vividly illustrated look at Tokyo. I discovered stuff I’d never known despite living here for over thirty years.’ Rupert Miller. ‘Some amazing photographs that really open your eyes to the city’s history and what it is today.’ Lu Passidino. ‘A must read, browse or dip into for anyone visiting Tokyo for the first time or the tenth time.’ Dr. Ginny Butterfield. In this scintillating new book, the author peels away the fog that so easily obscures the world’s biggest, most baffling city. It is a piercing analysis of the place, the people, its history, and yet the picture painted is both beautiful and eloquent. The book covers much ground and yet is bang up-to-date including the fiasco of the Olympic Games. At the same time it avoids all the cliches that so many books about Tokyo fall back on. It is close to 300 pages long but also heavily illustrated with many images, most of which have never been published before. This is a history that also uses the voices of the people who lived and visited here, adding an authenticity that is beguiling. Tokyo is a baffling city but know its history and this facade can be unravelled. This is a thorough but also a personal history that meanders through a place that can confuse all comers. Read it an enjoy the journey.

Japan Weekly Mail

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan Weekly Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

Author : Kayoko Takeda
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619128
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal written by Kayoko Takeda and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to ensure its absolute authority, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948), the Japanese counterpart of the Nuremberg Trial, adopted a three-tier structure for its interpreting: Japanese nationals interpreted the proceedings, second-generation Japanese-Americans monitored the interpreting, and Caucasian U.S. military officers arbitrated the disputes. The first extensive study on the subject in English, this book explores the historical and political contexts of the trial as well as the social and cultural backgrounds of the linguists through trial transcripts in English and Japanese, archival documents and recordings, and interviews with those who were involved in the interpreting. In addition to a detailed account of the interpreting, the book examines the reasons for the three-tier system, how the interpreting procedures were established over the course of the trial, and the unique difficulties faced by the Japanese-American monitors. This original case study of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal illuminates how complex issues such as trust, power, control and race affect interpreting at international tribunals in times of conflict.

Natalie and R.J.: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner

Author : Warren G. Harris
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1935169866
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Natalie and R.J.: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner written by Warren G. Harris and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their relationship was that of fairy tales. Their devotion so intense they wed each other not once, but twice. In the first book to focus on both Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, the author of the bestseller Gable & Lombard and the critically acclaimed book Cary Grant gives us a scintillating portrait of this glamorous and exciting couple from their early years working for the studio system to the final, shattering hours before Natalie Wood's life tragically ended. We follow them on their roller-coaster ride of the ups and downs and the magic and the madness of this couple who became Hollywood royalty.

Foreign Social Science Bibliographies

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Social Science Bibliographies written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887

Author : Stephen A. Royle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351737872
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887 by : Stephen A. Royle

Download or read book Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887 written by Stephen A. Royle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This book, the first full-length study of the incident, is based around contemporary material varying from printed dispatches and government reports to original archival manuscripts. This enables the book’s scope to range from setting the Port Hamilton Affair into its context within the high geopolitics of East Asia through study of the life of the garrison stationed on the islands to relations between the powerless indigenous islanders and their British occupiers.

The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry

Author : R. Victoria Arana
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108370
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry written by R. Victoria Arana and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.