Amazing Japan

Author : Boye Lafayette De Mente
Publisher : Cultural-Insight Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780914778295

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Amazing Japan! by Boye Lafayette De Mente Pdf

Japan is known worldwide for its economic prowess and such iconic symbols as geisha, karaoke, manga, Mt. Fuji, ninja, feudal-age samurai warriors and huge sumo wrestlers. What is not so well-known are its amazing historical artifacts [shrines; temples; castles; the world's largest and oldest wooden buildings; arts and crafts, hundreds of annual festivals that go back nearly two thousand years]; the incredible scenic beauty of its mountains, gorges, rivers, one of the longest and most gorgeous coastlines in the world; and a combined modern and traditional lifestyle that is so fascinating and seductive that exposure to it for just a few days is a mind-altering experience. The author identifies and describes a choice selection of things that make Japan one of the world's most unusual, most intriguing, and most enjoyable travel destinations...things that explain why so many foreigners take up permanent residence there once they have experienced life in this amazing country.

Author : Charles Tuttle Studio
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462903825

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Incredible Japan by Charles Tuttle Studio Pdf

Incredible Japan is a crash course in Japanese culture It is an introduction to those inimitable aspects of Japan which are necessarily alien to the foreign observer. With delightful cartoons by the Japanese artistt--illustrator, Masakazu Kuwata. The book proves that what is incredible about Japan is not inexplicable, and provides enlightenment on such potentially incomprehensible paradoxes as: Highly-skilled young men who hold degrees in judo--and flower arrangement. The "man in the moon"--who isn't a man at all, but a rabbit. Charming hotels with no public dining rooms and no private baths. Attractive gift packages so meticulously wrapped in paper proclaiming the poor quality of the contents After chuckling through this book, the reader will find he has become effortlessly informed on the history, houses, food, clothing, customs, language, and amusements of Incredible Japan.

Author : Rebecca Otowa
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781462913466

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My Awesome Japan Adventure by Rebecca Otowa Pdf

PICKED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2013 BY THE ASSOCIATION OF BOOKSELLERS FOR CHILDREN! A perfect introduction to Japanese culture for kids, My Awesome Japan Adventure is the diary of an American fifth grader who travels to Japan to spend four exciting months with a Japanese family as an exchange student. He records all his adventures in this diary so that he can tell his friends back home about what he did and saw during his time in Japan. With the help of a Japanese foster brother and sister he visits a Ninja village, tries new foods, learns brush painting, and gets the inside scoop on daily life in a Japanese school. Readers of all ages will love experiencing life in Japan from a kid's point of view! Dan's adventures include: My First Week of School, Visiting a Ninja Village, Fun with Origami, Practicing Aikido, Making Mochi, and much more… As a multicultural children's book, My Awesome Japan Adventure is perfect for kids who want to explore another culture and have fun in the process!

Author : Jack Goldstein
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781783332304

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101 Amazing Facts About Japan by Jack Goldstein Pdf

In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Japan. Separated into sections such as its geography, its landmarks, famous Japanese figures from history and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Japan, working on a geography project or just want to know more about this beautiful country, this is an excellent addition to your bookshelf. Find the information you need, fast!

Author : Boye Lafayette De Mente
Publisher : Cultural-Insight Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780914778714

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Amazing Arizona! by Boye Lafayette De Mente Pdf

Arizona is unique among American states, not only in its geography and geology but also in the diversity of its climate, in its indigenous animal and plant life, and in the history of its first inhabitants-communities of Indians whose ancestors arrived on the scene more than 20,000 years ago. Arizona is also the youngest of the contiguous mainland states of America...precisely because of these very same factors. Its climate, geography and Indian tribes were major barriers that prevented the territory from becoming widely populated by the Spanish, Mexicans and early European-Americans, and from being used as a cross-roads by American fur/pelt trappers, gold prospectors and settlers who began pushing west in the mid-1800s. Now, it is exactly these same factors that make Arizona a great place to live as well as a world-famous travel destination. The stories of how Arizona finally became what it is today are as amazing as the lay and the beauty of the land. Great background reading for residents and visitors alike, and an ideal gift.

Author : Hector Garcia
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 4805311290

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A Geek in Japan by Hector Garcia Pdf

For every fan of manga, anime, J-pop, or Zen, A Geek in Japan is a hip, smart and concise guide to the land that is their source. Comprehensive and well informed, it covers a wide array of topics in short articles accompanied by sidebars and numerous photographs, providing a lively digest of the society and culture of Japan. Designed to appeal to the generations of Westerners who grew up on Pokemon, manga and video games, A Geek in Japan reinvents the culture guide for readers in the Internet age. Spotlighting the originality and creativity of the Japanese, debunking myths about them, and answering nagging questions like why they're so fond of robots, author Hector Garcia has created the perfect book for the growing ranks of Japanophiles in this inspired, insightful and highly informative guide.

Author : Matt Alt
Publisher : Crown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781984826718

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Pure Invention by Matt Alt Pdf

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination. “A masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.”—W. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and ’80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the “lost decades” of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that’s precisely when its cultural clout soared—when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them—connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japan’s pop-media complex remade global culture.

Author : Yuiko Fujita
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739137109

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Cultural Migrants from Japan by Yuiko Fujita Pdf

In recent years, a large number of young Japanese have been migrating to New York and London for the purpose of engaging in cultural production in areas such as dance, fashion, DJing, film, and pop arts in the hope of 'making it' as artists. In the past, this kind of cultural migration was restricted to relatively small, elite groups, such as American artists in Paris in the 1920's, but Cultural Migrants from Japan looks at the phenomenon of tens of thousands of ordinary, middle-class Japanese youths who are moving to these cities for cultural purposes, and it questions how this shift in cultural migration can be explained. Following Appadurai's theory of the relation between electronic media and mass migration, and using ethnographies of twenty-two young migrants over a five year period, Fujita examines how television, film, and the internet influence this mobility. She challenges emerging orthodoxies in the general discussion of transnationalism, demonstrating the disjunction migrants experience between the pre-existing expectations created by media exposure, and the reality of creating and living as a 'transnational' artist participating in a global community. Intersecting long-term, multi-sited ethnography with emerging transnational and globalization theory, Cultural Migrants from Japan is a timely look at the emerging shift in concepts of national identity and migration.

Author : Susie Brooks
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482451061

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Japan by Susie Brooks Pdf

Sleek skyscrapers, foreboding volcanoes, high-tech transportation systems, and a world-famous cuisine are all unforgettable aspects of a trip to Japan. If readers can’t get there in person, this book, full of thought-provoking sidebars and fact boxes, is the next best thing. In fact, its comprehensive content delves into Japan’s history, economy, and daily life, too. Beautiful photographs transport readers to the very heart of this unique and visually exciting country.

Author : Boye De Mente
Publisher : Cultural-Insight Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781469986166

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Japan by Boye De Mente Pdf

Dramatic changes have occurred in Japan's way of doing business since the late 1980s and early 1990s when its economic juggernaut was literally stopped in its tracks. The rapid rise of global competition and te fact that the Japanese real estate and financial industries copied the doomed American practices added to Japan's woes.

Author : Boye De Mente
Publisher : Cultural-Insight Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477468357

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The Incredible Power of Serendipity! by Boye De Mente Pdf

How Serendipity Shaped the Lifeof Author Boyé Lafayette De MenteThis is the personal memoir of author Boyé Lafayette De Mente, the 4th of ten children born to poor parents in an isolated valley in the Ozark Hills of southeast Missouri, and raised during the Great Depression of the 1930s.He went on to have a remarkable life which he attributes to the incredible power of serendipity. As editor of The IMPORTER magazine in Tokyo in the late 1950s and early 1960s and as the author of numerous pioneer books on the mindset and business practices of the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans he made major contributions to the initial rise of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China as economic superpowers. He played a leading role in helping to launch the career of Thunderbird School of Global Management alumnae brother Merle Hinrichs who became the largest trade magazine publisher in Asia, a major financial donor to Thunderbird and member of the board of directors. And he launched the publishing career of Kentucky hillbilly Larry Flynt who achieved great wealth and notoriety as the publisher of HUSTLER magazine and champion of freedom of speech. [On the day De Mente met Flynt he told his wife that he had just met a 26-year old man who had the intelligence and drive to become president of the United States by the time he was old enough to qualify for the office.] De Mente's encounters and relationships with such extraordinary individuals as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, America's ranking naval officer during World War II; Akio Morita, co-founder and leading light of what was to become the Sony empire; Toshio Karita, former protocol officer for the Imperial Family of Japan; and Daisetzu Suzuki, Japan's leading Zen master, plus many more, were experiences he could not have even dreamed about before they happened. His story is an example of the potential of ordinary individuals to achieve significant things when life presents opportunities and they follow up on them.

Author : Peter Drysdale,Luke Gower
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415174384

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The Japanese Economy: Technology, foreign investment and competition policies by Peter Drysdale,Luke Gower Pdf

Author : Robert Pekkanen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004380547

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Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan by Robert Pekkanen Pdf

The Brill Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan collects seminal scholarship on the LDP including its structure and organization (e.g. factions, koenkai), historical development, policy-making, and leadership by Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe.

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473601246

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Modern Japan: All That Matters by Jonathan Clements Pdf

Jonathan Clements charts the rise of Japan since the end of World War Two. Presenting the country as the Japanese themselves see it, he explains key issues in national reconstruction, the often-overlooked US Occupation, the influence of the Cold War, student unrest, political scandals, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of the Japanese economy in the late 20th century. He chronicles changes in women's rights and consumer habits, developments in politics, education and health today, and the shadow of nuclear issues from Hiroshima to Fukushima. He also raises topics rarely covered by the foreign media - Japan's ethnic minorities and burakumin underclass, the influence of organised crime and the hard sell behind "soft" power. A final chapter examines the price Japan has paid for its meteoric rise, the problems of a greying population and a declining countryside, and the long-term implications of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. All That Matters about modern Japan. All That Matters books are a fast way to get right to the heart of key issues.

Author : Willamarie Moore
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781462906246

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All About Japan by Willamarie Moore Pdf

**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!** A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place—and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a girl from the city, take us on a tour of their beloved land through their eyes. They introduce us to their homes, families, favorite places, school life, holidays and more! Celebrate the cherry blossom festival Learn traditional Japanese songs and poems Make easy recipes like mochi (New Year's sweet rice cakes) and okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza or pancakes) Create origami frogs, samurai helmets and more! Beyond the fun and fascinating facts, you'll also learn about the spirit that makes Japan one-of-a-kind. This is a multicultural children's book for families to treasure together.