Category: Japan

By Michael Freeman, Michiko Rico Nose

Japan has regularly intrigued the area with its deceptively easy mixing of structure, panorama and layout. Zen temples, the recognized tea rite, formal gardens, using wooden, paper and different fabrics within the kind of monitors and flooring all have advanced through the years to create a different, but certainly specified type. Of the forty houses profiled during this publication, every one domestic represents in its personal approach the altering face of jap inside layout and structure.

By Steven T. Brown

Attractive essentially the most ground-breaking and thought-provoking anime, manga, and technological know-how fiction movies, Tokyo Cyberpunk bargains insightful research of jap visible tradition.

Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions approximately electronically mediated types of social interplay, in addition to particular jap socioeconomic issues, all within the context of globalization and complicated capitalism. Penetrating and nuanced, this book makes a big contribution to the talk approximately what it potential to be human in a posthuman global.

By Alex Kerr

A impressive review of the disasters and successes of contemporary Japan.

In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the various aspects of Japan's contemporary, and persistent, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension cash to the decline of its as soon as superb glossy cinema. he's the 1st to provide a whole record at the nation's endangered setting -- its beaches covered with concrete, its roads resulting in nowhere within the mountains -- in addition to its "monument frenzy," the destruction of previous towns similar to Kyoto and development of drab new ones, and the attendant cave in of its vacationer undefined. Kerr writes with humor and fervour, for "passion," he says, "is a part of the tale. thousands of jap consider as heartbroken at what's going as I do. My jap buddies inform me, 'Please write this -- for us.'"

By David Wolff, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning, John W. Steinberg, Shinji Yokote

Like quantity one, quantity of "The Russo-Japanese battle in worldwide standpoint" examines the Russo-Japanese conflict in its army, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. during this quantity, East Asian individuals specialize in the Asian facet of the struggle to flesh out the statement that the Russo-Japanese warfare was once, in reality, global warfare 0, the 1st international clash of the twentieth century. The members show that the Russo-Japanese conflict, principally forgotten within the aftermath of global struggle I, truly was once a precursor to the disaster that engulfed the area below a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This learn additionally is helping us larger comprehend Japan because it emerged initially of its fateful twentieth century.

By Robert Whiting

"A attention-grabbing examine a few attention-grabbing those that convey how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo

In this unorthodox chronicle of the increase of Japan, Inc., Robert Whiting, writer of You Gotta Have Wa, supplies us a clean viewpoint at the financial miracle and close to catastrophe that's smooth Japan.

Through the eyes of Nick Zappetti, a former GI, former black marketer, failed specialist wrestler, bungling diamond thief who grew to become himself into "the Mafia boss of Tokyo and the king of Rappongi," we meet the gamers and the losers within the high-stakes video game of postwar finance, politics, and legal corruption within which he thrived. Here's the tale of the Imperial inn diamond robbers, who tried (and can have complete) the largest heist in Tokyo's heritage. here's Rikidozan, the pro wrestler who nearly single-handedly revived eastern delight, yet whose personal ethnicity needed to be stored mystery. And here's the tale of the intimate relationships shared via Japan's ruling get together, its monetary combines, its ruthless legal gangs, the CIA, American giant enterprise, and maybe not less than one presidential relative. here's the bottom of postwar Japan, that's simply now coming to mild.

By Fodor's

In 2015 Japan turns into the eleventh most well-liked vacation spot for US tourists. Over one million americans stopover at every year to event this land of beautiful attractiveness, and up to date fluctuations within the yen have made it extra of a reasonable vacation spot than ever. In beautiful complete colour, Fodor's Japan illustrates the country's everlasting attracts, from historical temples and gardens and the planned speed of the tea rite, to the dizzying, frenetic pulse of its high-tech towns.

By Jun Maeda

This e-book has numerous routines for every lesson. And, to get familiar with eastern tradition, the scholar may possibly benefit from the pictures which the writer has supplied as a visible reduction. complex grammatical reasons are passed over, on account that particular factors occasionally discourage humans from truly talking. simply the fundamental issues in pronunciation and grammar are given, and the japanese words and sentences are repeated offered in each one lesson, in order that the coed can simply research the words and perform utilizing them with no hesitancy or discouragement.

By Timothy Brook

Opium is greater than only a drug extracted from poppies. over the last centuries it's been a palliative drugs, an addictive substance, a strong mechanism for concentrating and moving wealth and tool among countries, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural global in and round China. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering learn of 16 students to teach that the opium alternate was once now not merely a British operation yet concerned chinese language retailers, chinese language nation brokers, and jap imperialists to boot. The booklet offers a coherent old arc that strikes from British imperialism within the 19th century, to chinese language capital formation and country making on the flip of the century, to jap imperialism in the course of the Thirties and Nineteen Forties, and eventually to the plain answer of China's opium challenge within the early Fifties. jointly those essays exhibit that the advanced interweaving of commodity buying and selling, dependancy, and country intervention in opium's heritage refigured the ancient face of East Asia extra profoundly than the other commodity.

By Sei Shōnagon, Ivan Morris

'The Pillow booklet of Sei Shonagon', a casual diary of the memories of a lady-in-waiting on the courtroom of a Heian Empress.

The Pillow booklet of Sei Shonagon is an immensely distinctive account of courtroom lifestyles in eleventh-century Japan. Written on the peak of Heian tradition, it's a vintage textual content of significant literary good looks, filled with full of life anecdotes, funny observations, and sophisticated impressions. Sei Shonagon used to be a modern and erstwhile rival of girl Murasaki, whose novel, the story of Genji, fictionalized the courtroom lifestyles that woman Shonagon captures so vividly in her diary. The Pillow booklet includes her reflections on royal and spiritual ceremonies, nature, pilgrimage, dialog, and poetry. woman Shonagon stocks personality sketches and the issues she either loves and loathes. Her type is so eloquent, her wit so sharp, even the briefest fragments enchant us. there isn't any greater advent to the day-by-day preoccupations of the Heian higher classification, and Ivan Morris's notes and contextualization improve the cloth for students and common readers.

By Richard Lloyd Parry

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summertime of 2000, and disappeared without end. the subsequent iciness, her dismembered is still have been stumbled on buried in a seashore cave.

Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning overseas correspondent, coated Lucie's disappearance and the large look for her, the lengthy research, and the even longer trial. Over ten years, he earned the belief of her friends and family, gained exact entry to the japanese detectives and Japan's convoluted felony process, and delved deep into the brain of the guy accused of the crime, Joji Obara, defined by way of the pass judgement on as "unprecedented and intensely evil."

The result's a booklet without delay exciting and revelatory, "In chilly Blood for our times" (Chris Cleave, writer of Incendiary and Little Bee).

The those that consume Darkness is one among Publishers Weekly's best 10 most sensible Books of 2012