Tokyo Black

Author : Andrew Warren
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975656652

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Tokyo Black by Andrew Warren Pdf

A burned spy must stop a deadly cult from igniting global conflict... Thomas Caine lives in the shadows. Betrayed and left for dead, he has put his past as a government assassin behind him. Now he lives off the grid, in the seedy underworld of Pattaya, Thailand. But when local gangsters set him up for a crime he didn't commit, his old CIA masters make him an offer he can't refuse: rot in a hellish Thai prison, or accept a dangerous mission in Tokyo, Japan. As he hunts the neon-lit city for a CIA asset's missing daughter, he quickly learns there is more to his assignment than meets the eye. Looming in the shadows is Tokyo Black; a right wing terrorist cult, whose members demonstrate their loyalty by burning their yakuza tattoos from their skin. Can Thomas Caine defeat this fanatical enemy, before they ignite an international conflict that kills thousands? Tokyo Black is a high-octane thrill-ride packed with gun battles, car chases, fascinating characters and exotic locations. Reviews say "Up there with Lee Child and Vince Flynn! A heart stopping roller-coaster ride! Move over Jason Bourne... Here comes Thomas Caine!" Click the Buy Now button and enter the thrilling world of Thomas Caine today!

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190452667

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Tokyo A Cultural History by Stephen Mansfield Pdf

Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781904955863

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Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History by Stephen Mansfield Pdf

From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the backstreets of districts that have inspired the setting for science fiction novels are wooden temples, fox shrines, mouldering steles and statues of Bodhisattvas that evoke a different age. The point where time past, present and future coexist, Tokyo's thirst for the contemporary is moderated by nostalgia for the past. As an urban laboratory where the cultures of the East and West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms, Tokyo embraces sudden transitions, constant flux and transformation. The courtesans of its pleasure quarters inspired Edo-period woodblock artists, novelists and poets. In a later age, its experimental artists, feminist writers and Modern Girls of 1920s Ginza both shocked and electrified the capital. Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel through rise of a merchant class whose wealth transformed Edo into a home for artists, writers and performers. In contemporary Tokyo he explores the unique crossbred cultures of taste that make the giant conurbation one of the most exciting and creative cities in the world. * City of Literature, Theatre and Art: The print masters Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro; the Kabuki theatre; authors Nagai Kafu, Tanizaki Junichiro, Mishima Yukio, Murukami Haruki; foreign writers Angela Carter, William Gibson and Donald Richie. * City of Architecture: From the fortifications of Edo Castle, great temples and shrines, via the western hybrids of the Meiji era to the post-modernist skyscrapers, giant neon screens and digitalized surfaces of today s city. * City of Calamities: The great fires of the Edo period; floods, famines and typhoons; the 1923 Earthquake, coups and rising militarism in the 1930s; the fire bombings of the Second World War; the 1995 subway gas attack by members of a death cult and the fatalism of residents living on one of the earth's largest fault lines.

Author : Aviad E. Raz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781684173167

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Riding the Black Ship by Aviad E. Raz Pdf

In 1996 over 16 million people visited Tokyo Disneyland, making it the most popular of the many theme parks in Japan. Since it opened in 1983, Tokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture, particularly the "company manual." By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Aviad Raz shows that it is much more an example of successful importation, adaptation, and domestication and that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese even while marketing itself as foreign. Rather than being an agent of Americanization, Tokyo Disneyland is a simulated "America" showcased by and for the Japanese. It is an "America" with a Japanese meaning.

Author : Hiromitsu Hattori,Takahiro Kawamura,Tsuyoshi Ide,Makoto Yokoo,Yohei Murakami
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642006081

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New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence by Hiromitsu Hattori,Takahiro Kawamura,Tsuyoshi Ide,Makoto Yokoo,Yohei Murakami Pdf

Arti?cial intelligence has recently been re-energized to provide the clues needed to resolve complicated problems. AI is also expected to play a central role in enhancing a wide variety of daily activities. JSAI (The Japanese Society for Arti?cial Intelligence) is responsible for boosting the activities of AI researchers in Japan, and their series of annual conferences o?ers attractive forums for the exposition of the latest achievements and inter-group communication. In the past, the best papers of the conferences were published in the LNAI series. This book consists of award papers from the 22nd annual conference of the JSAI (JSAI 2008) and selected papers from the three co-located workshops. Eight papers were selected among more than 400 presentations at the conference and 18 papers were selected from the 34 presentations at the co-located wo- shops; Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5 (LENLS 2008), the 2nd International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2008), and the First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement (LIBM 2008). The award papers from JSAI 2008 were selected through a r- orous selection process. In the process, papers recommended by session chairs, session commentators, and PC members were carefully reviewed, before the ?nal decision was made.

Author : WAttention Co., Ltd.
Publisher : ゴマブックス株式会社
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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WAttention Tokyo VOL.10 by WAttention Co., Ltd. Pdf

銀座でのショッピングやグルメを満喫できる英語のガイド本！ WAttention Tokyo VOL.10は銀座特集！ 銀座で体験できるグルメや、ショッピングの情報（英文）が満載です。 銀座エリアの他にも東京で味わえるグルメの紹介、秋葉原でのメイド カフェ体験や、ちょっと遠出して富士5合目を訪れるツアー情報など も掲載しています。また渋谷スタートで気軽に楽しめる東京半日散歩 などのうれしい情報も。 東京を旅行する外国人や、外国人の友達を東京案内するときに役立 つ一冊です。 ※一部を除いて、すべて英文です。 ※日本文化の魅力を世界に発信する「WAttention Tokyo」事業は東京都中小企業振興公社の推奨事業です。 This is the guide for people who want to enjoy shopping and delicious food in Ginza all by English! WAttention Tokyo VOL.1 is the special edition for Ginza!? It is full of English information all about Ginza. Besides, you can check the news about the other district’s famous food, the maid caf? in Akihabara or even the information how to get to the Mount Fuji. In addition, what about use half a day to walk around Tokyo from that famous Shibuya. This book will be useful for the foreigners taking a trip in Tokyo or people who have foreigner friends and want to introduce them Japan. ※「WAttention Tokyo」 works on promotion and spreading the charming points of Japanese culture. It is one of the recommend projects of Tokyo’s small and medium-sized enterprises corporation. 本?是?外国游客?撰的在?京?座?物、品?美食的英文指南?！WAttention Tokyo vol.1是?座??！??收?了在?座品?美食及?物的有利信息（英文）。除?座之外，?将??介??京其他地方的美食、秋叶原的女仆??、及稍?一点的探?富士山5合目的?光情?。更有从?谷出?，悠?舒?的?京半日游的信息。?于来?京游??光的外国游客来?，是不可多得的一本?光指南。 ※本?文字?英文（包含一部分日文）。 ※将日本文化推广到世界的「WAttention Tokyo」是?京都中小企?振?公社的推广事?。

Author : Heide Imai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317363644

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Tokyo Roji by Heide Imai Pdf

The Japanese urban alleyway, which was once part of people’s personal spatial sphere and everyday life has been transformed by diverse and competing interests. Marginalised through the emergence of new forms of housing and public spaces, re-appropriated by different fields, and re-invented by the contemporary urban design discourse, the social meaning attached to the roji is being re-interpreted by individuals, subcultures and new social movements. The book will introduce and discuss examples of urban practices which take place within the dynamic urban landscape of contemporary Tokyo to portray the life cycle of an urban form being rediscovered, commodified and lost as physical space.

Author : Michael Pronko
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942410065

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Tokyo's Mystery Deepens by Michael Pronko Pdf

What happens when large bugs get trapped on crowded Tokyo trains? How does allergy season affect Tokyo's millions? Ever wonder why Japanese love to take photos together or how everyone feels during rainy season? How is Tokyo made so compact and made as much from imagination as from concrete and steel? Longtime resident, writer and professor Michael Pronko shows just why Tokyo life is equal parts trial and joy. This collection offers up essential skills for living in the vastest, most crowded city in the world-sweating politely, suffering noise and glancing in mirrors--and muses over the minutest of daily details-window flowers, eye contact and small gestures of thanks. If you're traveling to Tokyo, these essays point you toward the undercurrents of life and if you've ever considered visiting Tokyo, these essays will give you more reasons to go. Tokyo's Mystery Deepens brings together essays from Pronko's monthly column in Newsweek Japan, which has remained highly popular with Japanese readers for the last ten years. Originally published in Japanese, these concise, pointed essays are available in English for the first time. As with the first collection, Beauty and Chaos, Pronko examines Tokyo as a city, a culture and an overpowering experience. Tokyo's Mystery Deepens taps into the enigmatic sides of Tokyo with humor, delicacy and a large dose of healthy confusion. Praise for Beauty and Chaos:"e;Japanese who are used to Tokyo are caught off guard by his conclusions derived from careful observation, and are struck dumb...Tokyo, the city we are so careless of, suddenly starts to become glorious. It is a wonder!"e; Chunichi Shimbun (Newspaper) (translated from Japanese version) "e;Giving up the bias and seeing the city with completely different standards, you will see the unexpected, attractive face of Tokyo. This book is a guide for rediscovering Tokyo that lets us see the city with unique new features."e; Nikkan Gendai (translated from Japanese version) Japanese version available from KADOKAWA Publishers as: a E a aa a aeZaaSae-aae*aa a zaaa a a -a -a ae'-)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1949-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080567479

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Advances in Food Research by Anonim Pdf

Advances in Food Research

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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''Tokyo Mew Mew'' by Anonim Pdf

Author : Florent Chavouet
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462906406

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Tokyo on Foot by Florent Chavouet Pdf

This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what really defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, "Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the multicolor pencils of his kit, he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city in this truly vital portrait.

Author : Etsuko Taketani
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611686135

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The Black Pacific Narrative by Etsuko Taketani Pdf

The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the Òblack PacificÓ_the literary and cultural production of African American narratives in the face of AmericaÕs efforts to internationalize the Pacific and to institute a ÒPacific Community,Ó reflecting a vision of a hemispheric regional order initiated and led by the United States. The black Pacific was imagined in counterpoint to this regional order in the making, which would ultimately be challenged by the Pacific War. The principal subjects of study include such literary and cultural figures as James Weldon Johnson, George S. Schuyler, artists of the black Federal Theatre Project, Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Walter White, all of whom afford significant points of entry to a critical understanding of the stakes of the black Pacific narrative. Adopting an approach that mixes the archival and the interpretive, the author seeks to recover the black Pacific produced by African American narratives, narratives that were significant enough in their time to warrant surveillance and suspicion, and hence are significant enough in our time to warrant scholarly attention and reappraisal. A compelling study that will appeal to a broad, international audience of students and scholars of American studies, African American studies, American literature, and imperialism and colonialism.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756684754

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Top 10 Tokyo by Stephen Mansfield Pdf

DK Eyewitness Top 10: Tokyo will lead you straight to the best attractions Tokyo has to offer. Whether you're looking for vibrant festivals and lively nightlife in Tokyo, or want to find the best attractions in Tokyo for all the family, this travel guide is packed with essential information for every corner of this sensational metropolis. Whether you are traveling first class or on a limited budget, there are dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 places in Tokyo to experience Japanese culture and the Top 10 places of worship in Tokyo to the Top 10 restaurants, shops and hotels. To save you time and money, there's even a list of the Top 10 Things to Avoid! Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Tokyo.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English newspapers
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066356621

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Japan Weekly Mail by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mick Broderick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136883255

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Hibakusha Cinema by Mick Broderick Pdf

First Published in 1996. This collection of works is in response to American film scholar and long-term resident of Japan, Donald Richie, words:’ The Japanese failure to come to terms with Hiroshima is one which is shared by everybody in the world today,’ from over thirty years ago, when responding to the Japanese subgenre of cinema which had dealt with the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three decades on, the question lingers, does this appraisal remain valid? Hibakusha Cinema is an attempt - perhaps momentarily - to reorient critical focus upon a rarely discussed, yet important feature of Japanese cinema. The essays collected here represent a mix of Japanese and western (pan-Pacific) scholarship harnessing multidisciplinary methodologies, ranging from close textual analysis, archival and historical argument, anthropological assessment, literary and film comparative analyses to psychological and ideological hermeneutics.