Japan Sinks

Author : Sakyō Komatsu
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSC:32106018258852

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Author : Sakyo Komatsu
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486810522

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Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu Pdf

"A chillingly realistic work of science fiction." ― The New York Times. After dropping anchor for the night near a small island to the south of Japan, a crew of fishermen awaken to find that the island has vanished without a trace. An investigating scientist theorizes that the tiny island has succumbed to the same force that divided the Japanese archipelago from the mainland ― and that the disastrous shifting of a fault in the Japan Trench has placed the entire country in danger of being swallowed by the sea. Based on rigorous scientific speculation, Japan Sinks recounts a completely credible series of geological events. The story unfolds from multiple points of view, offering fascinating perspectives on the catastrophe's political, social, and psychological effects. Winner of the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Seiun Award, this prescient 1973 science-fiction novel foreshadowed the consequences of the 1995 Osaka-Kobe earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Author : Saito Production,Sakyou Komatsu
Publisher : LEED
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:G6810000001988

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Japan sinks (English Edition) by Saito Production,Sakyou Komatsu Pdf

What does Japanese government,messed by unpredictable natural sisasters, decide? This is Sakyo Komatsu's best seller.

Author : Sakyo Komatsu
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486802923

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Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu Pdf

An island in the Japanese archipelago disappears overnight, raising fears for the entire country. Prescient 1973 novel, acclaimed by The New York Times as "a chillingly realistic work of science fiction."

Author : Norman Spinrad
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809316714

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Science Fiction in the Real World by Norman Spinrad Pdf

Updates Lentz's previous work (which Library journal said was producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, special effects technicians, make-up artists, art directors. III: film index. IV: TV series index. V: alternate title index. Science fiction writer Spinrad presents 13 essays, some previously published, examining particular works in the genre, aspects of the industry, and how they influence each other. Topics include critical standards, the visual expression in comic books and movies, modes of content, politics, and profiles of individual authors. No bibliography. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Laura Hein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108169196

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The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3, The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century by Laura Hein Pdf

This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing international attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan's shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan's distinctive and fast-changing history.

Author : M. Tanaka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137373557

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Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction by M. Tanaka Pdf

Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.

Author : Sean Rhoads,Brooke McCorkle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476631349

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Japanäó»s Green Monsters by Sean Rhoads,Brooke McCorkle Pdf

 In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues—from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:909377823

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Japan sinks by Anonim Pdf

Great escape of a race begins in the Japanese Islands where are on the verge of submergence. This is last part of this story.

Author : Robert Hoppens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472575487

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The China Problem in Postwar Japan by Robert Hoppens Pdf

The 1970s were a period of dramatic change in relations between Japan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The two countries established diplomatic relations for the first time, forged close economic ties and reached political agreements that still guide and constrain relations today. This book delivers a history of this foundational period in Sino-Japanese relations. It presents an up-to-date diplomatic history of the relationship but also goes beyond this to argue that Japan's relations with China must be understood in the context of a larger “China problem” that was inseparable from a domestic contest to define Japanese national identity. The China Problem in Postwar Japan challenges some common assertions or assumptions about the role of Japanese national identity in postwar Sino-Japanese relations, showing how the history of Japanese relations with China in the 1970s is shaped by the strength of Japanese national identity, not its weakness.

Author : Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231551380

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Japan, 1972 by Yoshikuni Igarashi Pdf

By the early 1970s, Japan had become an affluent consumer society, riding a growing economy to widely shared prosperity. In the aftermath of the fiery political activism of 1968, the country settled down to the realization that consumer culture had taken a firm grip on Japanese society. Japan, 1972 takes an early-seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media in order to analyze the ways Japanese culture grappled with this economic shift. He exposes the political underpinnings of mass culture and investigates deeper anxieties over questions of agency and masculinity. Igarashi underscores how the male-dominated culture industry strove to defend masculine identity by looking for an escape from the high-growth economy. He reads a range of cultural works that reveal perceptions of imperiled Japanese masculinity through depictions of heroes’ doomed struggles against what were seen as the stifling and feminizing effects of consumerism. Ranging from manga travelogues to war stories, yakuza films to New Left radicalism, Japan, 1972 sheds new light on a period of profound socioeconomic change and the counternarratives of masculinity that emerged to manage it.

Author : William O. Gardner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452963129

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The Metabolist Imagination by William O. Gardner Pdf

Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors The devastation of the Second World War gave rise to imaginations both utopian and apocalyptic. In Japan, a fascinating confluence of architects and science fiction writers took advantage of this space to begin remaking urban design. In The Metabolist Imagination, William O. Gardner explores the unique Metabolism movement, which allied with science fiction authors to foresee the global cities that would emerge in the postwar era. This first comparative study of postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction builds on the resurgence of interest in Metabolist architecture while establishing new directions for exploration. Gardner focuses on how these innovators created unique versions of shared concepts—including futurity, megastructures, capsules, and cybercities—making lasting contributions that resonate with contemporary conversations around cyberpunk, climate change, anime, and more. The Metabolist Imagination features original documentation of collaborations between giants of postwar Japanese art and architecture, such as the landmark 1970 Osaka Expo. It also provides the most sustained English-language discussion to date of the work of Komatsu Sakyō, considered one of the “big three” authors of postwar Japanese science fiction. These studies are underscored by Gardner’s insightful approach—treating architecture as a form of speculative fiction while positioning science fiction as an intervention into urban design—making it a necessary read for today’s visionaries.

Author : Gerald L. Curtis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231108430

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The Logic of Japanese Politics by Gerald L. Curtis Pdf

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese politics for more than thirty years, and he draws on their candid comments to provide invaluable and graphic insights into the world of Japanese politics. By relating the behavior of Japanese political leaders to the institutions within which they must operate, Curtis makes sense out of what others have regarded as enigmatic or illogical. He utilizes his skills as a scholar and his knowledge of the inner workings of the Japanese political system to highlight the commonalities of Japanese and Western political practices while at the same time explaining what sets Japan apart. Curtis rejects the notion that cultural distinctiveness and consensus are the defining elements of Japan's political decision making, emphasizing instead the competition among and the profound influence of individuals operating within particular institutional contexts on the development of Japan's politics. The discussions featured here -- as they survey both the detailed events and the broad structures shaping the mercurial Japanese political scene of the 1990s -- draw on extensive conversations with virtually all of the decade's political leaders and focus on the interactions among specific politicians as they struggle for political power. The Logic of Japanese Politics covers such important political developments as • the Liberal Democratic Party's egress from power in 1993, after reigning for nearly four decades, and their crushing defeat in the "voters' revolt" of the 1998 upper-house election; • the formation of the 1993 seven party coalition government led by prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa and its collapse eight months later; • the historic electoral reform of 1994 which replaced the electoral system operative since the adoption of universal manhood suffrage in 1925; and • the decline of machine politics and the rise of the mutohaso -- the floating, nonparty voter. Scrutinizing and interpreting a complex and changing political system, this multi-layered chronicle reveals the dynamics of democracy at work -- Japanese-style. In the process, The Logic of Japanese Politics not only offers a fascinating picture of Japanese politics and politicians but also provides a framework for understanding Japan's attempts to surmount its present problems, and helps readers gain insight into Japan's future.

Author : Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1571811079

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Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations by Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger Pdf

American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that explores the links between Americanization and modernity in Western Europe and Japan. In considering the impact of products and images ranging from movies and music to fashion and architecture, a multi-disciplinary group of contributors asks how American culture has been employed internationally in the articulation of postwar identities - be they national or subnational, socially sanctioned or socially transgressive. Their essays on France, Italy, Germany and Japan move beyond the simple paradigms of colonization and democratic modernization, yet retain a sensitivity to the asymmetries in the postwar power relationships between these countries and the United States. An extensive introduction historically locates changing interpretations of American influences abroad and suggests the problems and promises of "Americanization" as an analytical tool. Its comparative focus and interdisciplinary scope will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of cold war and post-cold war history.

Author : Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785330049

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Transactions, Transgressions, Transformation by Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger Pdf

American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that explores the links between Americanization and modernity in Western Europe and Japan. In considering the impact of products and images ranging from movies and music to fashion and architecture, a multi-disciplinary group of contributors asks how American culture has been employed internationally in the articulation of postwar identities - be they national or subnational,socially sanctioned or socially transgressive. Their essays on France, Italy, Germany and Japan move beyond the simple paradigms of colonization and democratic modernization, yet retain a sensitivity to the asymmetries in the postwar power relationships between these countries and the United States. An extensive introduction historically locates changing interpretations of American influences abroad and suggests the problems and promises of "Americanization" as an analytical tool. Its comparative focus and interdisciplinary scope will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of cold war and post-cold war history.