The Japan Journals

Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780893469849

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The Japan Journals by Donald Richie Pdf

“Richie should be designated a living national treasure.”—Library Journal "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."—New York Times "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."—London Review of Books "To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."—Japanese Language and Literature Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1577312368

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Sake & Satori by Joseph Campbell Pdf

A previously unpublished sequel to Baksheesh and Brahman reports on the author's travels through east Asia and his five-month stay in Japan in the 1950s, during which he experienced local culture and witnessed the area's struggles with Cold War tensions and western values. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781880656976

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The Japan Journals by Donald Richie Pdf

"Wonderfully evocative and full of humor, but also honest, introspective, and often poignant."--The New York Times

Author : Wolfram Manzenreiter,Barbara Holthus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317352723

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Happiness and the Good Life in Japan by Wolfram Manzenreiter,Barbara Holthus Pdf

Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with new challenges to answer the fundamental question of how to live a good life of meaning, purpose and value. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and original research, considers how specific groups of Japanese people view and strive for the pursuit of happiness. It examines the importance of relationships, family, identity, community and self-fulfilment, amongst other factors. The book demonstrates how the act of balancing social norms and agency is at the root of the growing diversity of experiencing happiness in Japan today.

Author : Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479889389

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Japan by Frank Baldwin,Anne Allison Pdf

"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Author : John A Wolter,David A Ranzan,John J. McDonough
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513379

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With Commodore Perry to Japan by John A Wolter,David A Ranzan,John J. McDonough Pdf

With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personal account of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry’s expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser’s clerk of the USS Mississippi. The documentary edition, endorsed by the National Historic Publications & Records Commission, provides excellent coverage of both the political mission of the Perry expedition, the opening of relations with Japan, and of the social history of a naval warship as well. Also included are fifty-five illustrations ranging from hand drawn, pen-and-ink scenes of everyday life sketched by Speiden and other members of the crew to exquisitely detailed pith paintings by Chinese artists.

Author : Lana Barce
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515397270

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Japan Travel Journal by Lana Barce Pdf

This Travel journal has 160 pages, in which more than half of the book contains pages to write thoughts, and others to fill in with favorite restaurants, landscapes, photos and more. The blank pages are perfect for those who want to make their own notes and not be governed 100%.

Author : Joanne Kyger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1556433379

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Strange Big Moon by Joanne Kyger Pdf

Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial niche in San Francisco's Beat poetry movement. Whether she is studying under Zen teacher Ruth Fuller Sakaki or meeting with the Dalai Lama (who at 27 "lounged on a velvet couch like a gawky adolescent in red robes"), her journals are witty, amusing, and intelligent, in this fascinating look at the art of poetry and portrait of the counterculture abroad.

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : Collected Works of Joseph Camp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1608685047

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Asian Journals by Joseph Campbell Pdf

A tour of the Far East, narrated by the world's preeminent mythologist

Author : Jeff Kingston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509525485

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Japan by Jeff Kingston Pdf

Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful challenges from within and without. How Japan chooses to handle these problems and opportunities will determine its future for decades to come. In this book, Jeff Kingston – one of the most lucid analysts of Japan today – takes readers on a fascinating journey through this country's contemporary history, exploring the key developments and forces, both at home and abroad, that are shaping Japan in the twenty-first century. Whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s transformative agenda of “Abenomics” and “proactive pacifism” toward a rising China and a belligerent North Korea can set Japan on the path to greater prosperity and security remains to be seen. But having won a third term as president of the Liberal Democratic Party in 2018, Japan’s ongoing transformation is very much in Abe’s hands.

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Index medicus
ISBN : OSU:32435070875992

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List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

Issues for 1977-1979 include also Special List journals being indexed in cooperation with other institutions. Citations from these journals appear in other MEDLARS bibliographies and in MEDLING, but not in Index medicus.

Author : Atsuko Watanabe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030043995

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Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination by Atsuko Watanabe Pdf

This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics. Europe’s role in disseminating knowledge globally to shape the world according to its standards is an unchallenged premise in world politics. In this story, Japan is regarded as an enthusiastic importer of the knowledge. The book challenges this ground by examining how European geopolitics, the theory of the modern state, traveled to Japan in the first half of the last century, and demonstrates that the same theory can invoke diverged imaginations of the world by examining a range of historical, political, and literary texts. Focusing on the transformation of power, knowledge, and subjectivity in time and space, Watanabe provides a detailed account to reconsider the formation of contemporary world order of the modern territorial states.

Author : Ulv Hanssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429823817

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Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan by Ulv Hanssen Pdf

Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan’s history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar period, whilst providing an explanation for the much-debated security policy changes under Abe Shinzō. Analyzing the ways identities can be constructed through ‘temporal othering,’ as well as ‘spatial othering,’ this book examines the rise of a new form of identity in Japan since the end of the Cold War, one that is differentiated not from prewar and wartime Japan, but from postwar Japan. The champions of this identity, it argues, see the postwar past as a shameful period, characterized by self-imposed military restrictions, and thus the relentless chipping away of these limitations in recent years is indicative of how dominant this identity has become. Exploring how these military restrictions have shifted from being a symbol of pride to a symbol of shame, this book demonstrates the concrete ways in which the past can both enable and constrain policy. Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese politics and foreign policy, as well as international relations more generally.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Japan
ISBN : IND:30000092618259

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The Japan Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joanne Kyger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2021780463

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The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 by Joanne Kyger Pdf