Death at the Crossroads: A Samurai Mystery (Samurai by Dale Furutani

By Dale Furutani

Matsuyama Kaze is a "ronin," a eastern knight errant. Kaze needs to go back and forth throughout Japan till he fulfills a promise made to his death Lord and girl -- to discover their nine-year-old daughter. As this masterless samurai searches the geographical region, he's stuck up in a sequence of mysteries that try his power and abilities in addition to his Confucian training.

Kaze stumbles upon a corpse shot with an arrow on the crossroads resulting in a small city. He turns into embroiled with an not going -- and untrustworthy -- solid of characters, who're as colourful as they're artful. each one has secrets and techniques to maintain and axes to grind, and it'll take all of Kaze's subtlety, stealth, and Samurai abilities to solve the secret and unmask the killer.
Richly atmospheric, packed with traditionally exact aspect, Death on the Crossroads conjures up the area of long-ago Japan and the usually lonely lifetime of an honor-bound warrior. It's a spellbinding, deeply gratifying secret that may depart readers hungry for the subsequent bankruptcy in Matsuyama Kaze's trip of adventure.

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By Dale Furutani

Matsuyama Kaze is a "ronin," a eastern knight errant. Kaze needs to go back and forth throughout Japan till he fulfills a promise made to his death Lord and girl -- to discover their nine-year-old daughter. As this masterless samurai searches the geographical region, he's stuck up in a sequence of mysteries that try his power and abilities in addition to his Confucian training.

Kaze stumbles upon a corpse shot with an arrow on the crossroads resulting in a small city. He turns into embroiled with an not going -- and untrustworthy -- solid of characters, who're as colourful as they're artful. each one has secrets and techniques to maintain and axes to grind, and it'll take all of Kaze's subtlety, stealth, and Samurai abilities to solve the secret and unmask the killer.
Richly atmospheric, packed with traditionally exact aspect, Death on the Crossroads conjures up the area of long-ago Japan and the usually lonely lifetime of an honor-bound warrior. It's a spellbinding, deeply gratifying secret that may depart readers hungry for the subsequent bankruptcy in Matsuyama Kaze's trip of adventure.

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America is now ubiquitous as the unmarked model for (post)modern culture. It is an open question if this transformation of the nature of America’s global cultural influence is the pinnacle of Americanization or the demise of Americanization. Smart (1993) criticizes Baudrillard by arguing that an exclusive comparison between Europe and America leads to a failure to realize the limits and decline of all-powerful Western/American modernity. Baudrillard is, deliberately or not, ‘‘indi√erent to the possibility that America may no longer be the model for business, performance, and international style, no longer the ‘uncontested and uncontestable’ model of modernity’’ (Smart 1993, 66).

I interviewed more than 110 people who work for tv stations, in the music industry, and for publishing companies and advertising agencies in Tokyo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. The interviews posed questions concerning the promotion and reception of both Japanese popular culture in East Asia and of Southeast Asian popular culture in Japan. , coproduced by Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In addition, I conducted informal, in-depth interviews with eighteen female and three male viewers (whose ages ranged from seventeen to the late twenties) concerning Japanese tv dramas in Taipei, and with twenty-four female ‘‘fans’’ (whose ages ranged from the early-twenties to the fifties) concerning Hong Kong films and pop music singers in Tokyo.

This is a period during which the historical process of globalization, as defined by Hall Taking ‘‘Japanization’’ seriously 35 (1995), has been accelerated by several interconnected factors. These include the global integration of markets and capital by powerful transnational corporations; the development of communication technologies which easily and simultaneously connect all over the globe; the emergence of an affluent middle class in non-Western countries, especially in Asia; and the increasing number of people moving from one place to another by migration and tourism.

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