Almost Japanese

Author : Sarah Sheard
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770563476

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Almost Japanese by Sarah Sheard Pdf

In Sarah Sheard's celebrated novel Almost Japanese, a young girl's obsession with a famous Japanese musician blossoms into personal transformation. In spare, lyrical prose, Sheard documents Emma's discovery of her new next door neighbour, a dazzling Japanese symphony conductor. Things Japanese soon begin to transform Emma's world. Several years later, she must journey to Japan on a private pilgrimage to connect to the source of her obsession.

Author : Sarah Sheard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:889974184

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Almost Japanese by Sarah Sheard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091216095

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Almost Japanese by Anonim Pdf

In Sarah Sheard's celebrated novel Almost Japanese, a young girl's obsession with a famous Japanese musician blossoms into personal transformation. In spare, lyrical prose, Sheard documents Emma's discovery of her new next door neighbour, a dazzling Japanese symphony conductor. Things Japanese soon begin to transform Emma's world. Several years later, she must journey to Japan on a private pilgrimage to connect to the source of her obsession.

Author : Sarah Sheard
Publisher : London : Faber and Faber
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040544541

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Almost Japanese by Sarah Sheard Pdf

Author : 太宰治
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811204812

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No Longer Human by 太宰治 Pdf

A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage.

Author : 村上龍
Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 4770029047

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Almost Transparent Blue by 村上龍 Pdf

This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication. It is a semi-autobiographical tale of the author's youth spent amidst the glorious squalor of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in 1970s Japan. Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and

Author : Gail R. Benjamin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814723401

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Japanese Lessons by Gail R. Benjamin Pdf

Benjamin dismantles Americans' preconceived notions of the Japanese education system "Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one..."—The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system that leaves children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. In Japanese Lessons, Gail R. Benjamin recounts her experiences as a American parent with two children in a Japanese elementary school. An anthropologist, Benjamin successfully weds the roles of observer and parent, illuminating the strengths of the Japanese system and suggesting ways in which Americans might learn from it. With an anthropologist's keen eye, Benjamin takes us through a full year in a Japanese public elementary school, bringing us into the classroom with its comforting structure, lively participation, varied teaching styles, and non-authoritarian teachers. We follow the children on class trips and Sports Days and through the rigors of summer vacation homework. We share the experiences of her young son and daughter as they react to Japanese schools, friends, and teachers. Through Benjamin we learn what it means to be a mother in Japan--how minute details, such as the way mothers prepare lunches for children, reflect cultural understandings of family and education.

Author : J. Woronoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349252640

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Japanese Social Crisis by J. Woronoff Pdf

Political scandals, governmental instability and the poison-gas attack in central Tokyo show that Japan is passing through a serious social crisis. It affects virtually every social unit: family, school, company, political parties, religions and the nation. And it worries every segment of the population, young and old, men and women, management and labour, the elite and the plebe. Among other things, workers are growing dissatisfied with company life, families are undermined by discord and divorce, even the ruling Liberal Democratic Party collapsed (as did many of its opponents). The Japanese are ever harder to lead and the politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen who once led them are increasingly ineffective. Thus, while many reforms are mooted, and some are initiated, very few are actually implemented. Under these conditions, the many negative trends cannot be halted - let alone reversed - and the crisis should worsen.

Author : George Ashdown Audsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600015722

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Keramic art of Japan, by G.A. Audsley and J.L. Bowes by George Ashdown Audsley Pdf

Author : Peter B Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134249787

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Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements by Peter B Clarke Pdf

Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.

Author : Frederic George Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590941626

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Notes ... on Thomas Bewick, Illustrating a Loan Collection of His Drawings and Woodcuts ; Also Catalogue of Etchings by Bracquemond and Others, Shown at the Fine Art Society's Galleries by Frederic George Stephens Pdf

Author : Ramon H. Myers,Mark R. Peattie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691213873

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The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 by Ramon H. Myers,Mark R. Peattie Pdf

These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto. the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands), the institutions and policies by which it was governed, and the economic dynamics that impelled it. Seeking neither to justify the empire nor to condemn it, the contributors place it in the framework of Japanese history and in the context of colonialism as a global phenomenon. Contributors are Ching-chih Chen. Edward I-te Chen, Bruce Cumings, Peter Duus, Lewis H. Gann, Samuel Pao-San Ho, Marius B. Jansen, Mizoguchi Toshiyuki, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie, Michael E. Robinson, E. Patricia Tsurumi. Yamada Saburō, Yamamoto Yūzoō.

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262098802142

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The Critic by Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder Pdf

Author : Robert N. Bellah
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520235984

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Imagining Japan by Robert N. Bellah Pdf

"Bellah is a sociologist with a grand vision of history, deeply concerned with the twists and turns of religious values, weaving pre-modern religious thinking into the debates of modernization and modernity. He takes a reflective turn with Imagining Japan, evidencing his profound concern with religious evolution."—Tetsuo Najita, University of Chicago "One of the most original attempts to understand some of the psychological and symbolic roots of the central problems in Japanese history. Bellah masterfully brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japan, making a very important contribution to Japanese Studies."—S. N. Eisenstadt, Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University and author of Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View

Author : Lewis H. Mates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317143826

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Encyclopedia of Cremation by Lewis H. Mates Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.