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By Ryu Murakami

Coin Locker infants is Ryu Murakami's cult cyperpunk novel

'A cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and unsure depth' Publishers Weekly

'A attention-grabbing peek into the weirdness of up to date Japan' Oliver Stone

Two infants are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and continue to exist opposed to the chances, yet their lives are ceaselessly tainted through this inauspicious start.

As they develop up, they sign up for the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes. One turns into a bisexual rock celebrity and appears for his mom, whereas the opposite one, an athlete, seeks revenge. This savage and beautiful tale unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence.

Ryu Murakami is the enfant negative of latest jap literature. provided the celebrated Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first publication, a unique a couple of staff of teens drowned in intercourse and medication, he has long gone directly to discover with cinematic depth the topics of violence and expertise in modern jap society. His novels comprise Coin Locker infants, Sixty-Nine, well known Hits of the Showa period, Audition, within the Miso Soup and From the place of birth, with Love.

By Samuel Hawley

“Magnificent!” (South China Morning Post)

“A superb read!” (JoongAng day-by-day News)

“The scope is actually vast!” (Seoul Magazine)

“Like a prelude to Shogun!"(StrategyPage.com)

“A feast!” (Shogun-ki)

In may perhaps of 1592, jap dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi despatched a 158,800-man military of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea’s southern tip. His target: to overcome Korea, then China, after which the entire of Asia. The ensuing seven years of scuffling with, recognized in Korea as imjin waeran, the “Imjin invasion,” after the 12 months of the water dragon during which it all started, dwarfed modern conflicts in Europe and was once essentially the most devastating wars to grip East Asia some time past thousand years.

The Imjin War is the main complete account ever released in English of this cataclysmic occasion, so little identified within the West. It starts with the political and cultural historical past of Korea, Japan and China, explores the diplomatic deadlock that ended in the struggle, describes each significant incident and conflict from 1592 to 1598 and introduces a desirable solid of characters alongside the best way. there's Hideyoshi, internet hosting backyard events as his armies march towards Beijing; Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin, rising from a jail telephone to tackle the japanese army with simply 13 ships; chinese language commander Zhao Chengxun, pain defeat after promising to “scatter the japanese to the 4 winds”; the courtesan Chu Non-gae, luring a samurai into her palms after which leaping into the Nam River with him locked in her embrace.

One country scuffling with to extend, one other to outlive. Shockwaves extending throughout China and past. The Imjin War is an epic story of grand point of view and intimate aspect of an upheaval that may form East Asia for hundreds of years to come.

By Dianne Rahm, John Kirkland, Barry Bozeman (auth.)

Over the final numerous many years there was a growing to be curiosity in study & improvement (R&D) coverage. this is often quite so in complicated industrialized international locations that experience followed technology- and know-how- dependent concepts for nationwide fiscal competitiveness. the us, the uk, and Japan -- the 3 international locations which are the themes of this booklet -- proportion this coverage method. each one of those international locations is devoted to hamessing the techniques that stern from clinical and technological enhance to advertise nationwide financial prosperity. Governments can impression their nation's R&D efIort in 3 common methods. First, they could without delay fund the R&D efIort via promises, loans, appropriations, or govt contracts. moment, they could supply tax and financing incentives to motivate better degrees of non-public zone R&D. 3rd, they could use their strength to create inter-organizational collaborations that significantly expand and extend the nation's collective R&D efIort. University-industry collaborations are a imperative kind of those inter­ organizational R&D efIorts -- and the point of interest of this book.

By Richard Bryan McDaniel

Zen Masters of Japan is the second one booklet in a chain that strains Zen's profoundly ancient trip because it unfold eastward from China and Japan, towards the USA. Following Zen Masters of China, this e-book concentrates on Zen's major passage via Japan. extra in particular, it describes the lineage of the good lecturers, the Pioneers who got down to enlighten an island prepared for an internal transformation in keeping with compassionate awareness.

While the present Buddhist institution in Japan met early Zen pioneers like Dogen and Eisai with fervent resistance, Zen Buddhism finally perservered and persevered to turn into extra remodeled in its passage via Japan. the japanese tradition and jap Buddhism practices extra deepened and bolstered Zen education by means of combining it with various esoteric contemplative arts the humanities of poetry, the tea rite, calligraphy, and archery. Zen Masters of Japan chronicles this trip, and exhibits how the recent practices quickly won in reputation between all walks of existence from the lowly peasant, delivering a desire of reincarnation and a greater existence; to the Samurai warrior as a result of its informal method of demise; to the ruling sessions, tough the intelligentsia due to its scholarly roots. a suite of Zen tales, meditation, and their knowledge, Zen Masters of Japan additionally explores the illusive nation of 'No Mind' completed in Japan that's so primary to Zen practices this present day.

By David Coates

Publish yr note: First released in 2000
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The modern debate on monetary coverage is ruled through the difficulty of ′which version of capitalism works best′.

By Janet R. Goodwin

Promoting Songs and Smiles explores woman sexual leisure ("songs and smiles") in the course of Japan's Heian and Kamakura classes, studying the sluggish development of a transgressive id ("prostitute") for girls engaged within the intercourse exchange. Over a few 400 years, the nature and public photo of sexual leisure used to be formed by way of turning out to be regulations on woman sexual intercourse and more and more adverse perspectives of the feminine body--themselves the results of socioeconomic switch in society at huge. even though it is feasible to color an image of the overall decline within the prestige of ladies within the intercourse alternate, there have been additionally ambiguities in how they have been looked by means of society within the very oldest extant references to them in old resources. utilizing essays, diaries, felony records, tales, and illustrated works, this unique and distinct learn unravels social attitudes towards woman sexual entertainers and examines adjustments of their alternate and the therapy they bought by the hands of the courtroom, the bakufu, and spiritual institutions.

Compellingly argued and stylishly written, promoting Songs and Smiles demanding situations a number of triumphing interpretations, so much particularly the natural connection posed by way of students among shamans and sexual entertainers. according to her exhaustive examine into a number of varieties of basic resources, Janet Goodwin perspectives ladies interested by the intercourse alternate neither as totally social marginals nor artisans positioned inside common societal bounds. What emerges from her learn is the complicated and sometimes contradictory nature of the Heian and Kamakura discourse on sexual leisure.

By Susan B. Hanley

Japan used to be the one non-Western country to industrialize earlier than 1900 and its jump into the trendy period has influenced lively debates between historians and social scientists. In an leading edge dialogue that posits the significance of actual health and wellbeing as a key indicator of dwelling criteria, Susan B. Hanley considers way of life within the 3 centuries best as much as the trendy period in Japan. She concludes that folks lived far better than has been formerly understood--at degrees equivalent or enhanced to their Western contemporaries. She is going directly to illustrate how this excessive point of actual wellbeing and fitness had very important effects for Japan's skill to industrialize swiftly and for the relatively delicate transition to a latest, commercial society.While others have used source of revenue degrees to finish that the japanese family used to be fairly negative in these centuries, Hanley examines the fabric culture--food, sanitation, housing, and transportation. How did usual humans preserve the restricted assets to be had during this small island state? What meals made up the day-by-day vitamin and the way have been they ready? How have been human wastes disposed of? How lengthy did humans dwell? Hanley solutions these kinds of questions and extra in an available kind and with common comparisons with Western existence. Her equipment let for cross-cultural comparisons among Japan and the West in addition to Japan and the remainder of Asia. they are going to be precious to somebody attracted to the consequences of modernization on lifestyle.