Tokyo Noir

Author : Jake Adelstein
Publisher : Scribe Us
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1957363916

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Tokyo Noir by Jake Adelstein Pdf

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organized-crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enemy to worry about--for the time being. But as he puts his life back together, he discovers that he may be no match for his greatest enemy--himself. And Adelstein has a different gig these days: due-diligence work, or using his investigative skills to dig up information on entities whose bosses would prefer that some things stay hidden. The underworld isn't what it used to be. Underneath layers of paperwork, corporations are thinly veiled fronts for the yakuza. Pachinko parlors are a hidden battleground between disenfranchised Japanese Koreans and North Korean extortion plots. TEPCO, the electric power corporation keeping the lights on for all of Tokyo, scrambles to hide its willful oversights that ultimately led to the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. And the Japanese government shows levels of corruption that make the yakuza look like philanthropists in comparison. All this is punctuated by personal tragedies no one could have seen coming. In this ambitious and riveting work, Jake Adelstein explores what it's like when you're in too deep to distinguish the story you chase from the life you live.

Author : J. Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543296130

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Tokyo Noir: the Complete First Season by J. Matthews Pdf

A killer stalks the streets of a near-future Tokyo on the brinkNow, three people on opposite sides of the law find themselves caught up in the blowback from the slayings. There's Vasili, the ruthless yakuza boss desperate to conceal a secret so explosive, it could tear the underworld apart and finally loosen his grip on power.Satoshi, the conflicted street soldier forced to question his allegiances when he's tasked with bringing in his best friend for a fate worse than death. And Mei, the detective assigned to catch the killer, only to find herself pulled under Vasili's influence. Caught between a corrupt police force and a crime kingpin determined to lead her astray at every turn, she'll have to outwit both sides to stop the killer before he strikes again.Three desperate people who will have to break all their own rules just to stay alive.And even that may not be enough.A complex crime thriller with depthTokyo Noir is a new type of serial patterned after the best contemporary TV dramas. Its gritty atmosphere, complex characters, and fast-paced action make it just as addictive and binge-worthy as some of today's most engaging TV series. The Drowning City is the first of five episodes.Season I consists of:Episode I. The Drowning CityEpisode II. Masters and ServantsEpisode III. Human SacrificesEpisode IV. Served ColdEpisode V. The Heart of the Machine

Author : J. Scott Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197702159X

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Tokyo Noir: the Complete Second Season by J. Scott Matthews Pdf

Season II begins where Season I left off, with the damage done ...When Mei is handed an impossible cold case, she finds herself once again turning to Vasili. But his help doesn't come without a cost. With suspicion mounting about her yakuza ties, she'll have to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the gang she suspects is behind the killings, as well as her colleagues on the force.Following his near-fatal attack, Vasili swears off his criminal roots in an attempt to go (somewhat) clean. But while he may be done with the underworld, it's not done with him. Under siege from all sides, he may have to get his hands bloody again if his beleaguered crew is to have any chance of survival.Wracked with grief and losing his grip on reality, Satoshi pursues the man who murdered his girlfriend across a nightmare landscape that is a dark mirror-image of modern Japan. But even if he has his revenge, he may find that there's no coming back from the depths he'll have to sink to get it. Every choice has a cost, every victory a priceTokyo Noir's second season offers a challenging character study of three desperate people with their backs to the wall and everything to lose. The complete second season contains:Episode I. The Damage DoneEpisode II. Half LivesEpisode III. Once BrokenEpisode IV. The Wolf You Feed

Author : James Farrer,David Wank
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780824895266

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The Global Japanese Restaurant by James Farrer,David Wank Pdf

"With more than 120,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries. The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics uses an innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and reception of the "global Japanese restaurant" in the modern world. Drawing heavily on untapped primary sources in multiple languages, this book centers on the stories of Japanese migrants in the first half of the twentieth century, and then on non-Japanese chefs and restaurateurs from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australasia, and the Americas whose mobilities, since the mid-1900s, who have been reshaping and spreading Japanese cuisine. The narrative covers a century and a half of transnational mobilities, global imaginaries, and culinary politics at different scales. It shifts the spotlight of Japanese culinary globalization from the "West" to refocus the story on Japan's East Asian neighbors and highlights the growing role of non-Japanese actors (chefs, restaurateurs, suppliers, corporations, service staff) since the 1980s. These essays explore restaurants as social spaces, creating a readable and compelling history that makes original contributions to Japan studies, food studies, and global studies. The transdisciplinary framework will be a pioneering model for combining fieldwork and archival research to analyze the complexities of culinary globalization"--

Author : Steve Clark,Paul Smethurst
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789622099142

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Asian Crossings by Steve Clark,Paul Smethurst Pdf

The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.

Author : Jake Adelstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1915590892

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Tokyo Noir by Jake Adelstein Pdf

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781948436175

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Eastern Europe (Including All of Russia) (1783-2020) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and will illustrated book on this subject. Extensive subject and geographical index. 146 photographs, maps and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books

Author : Jennifer Fay,Justus Nieland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135263843

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Film Noir by Jennifer Fay,Justus Nieland Pdf

The term "film noir" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain of world cinema. This book traces film noir’s emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its postwar consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine how film noir crosses national boundaries, speaks to diverse international audiences, and dramatizes local crimes and the crises of local spaces in the face of global phenomena like world-wide depression, war, political occupation, economic and cultural modernization, decolonization, and migration. This fresh study of film noir and global culture also discusses film noir’s heterogeneous style and revises important scholarly debates about this perpetually alluring genre.

Author : [Anonymus AC01287739]
Publisher : ICO
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 4931154263

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NOAH : directory of international package design. 6 (1995) by [Anonymus AC01287739] Pdf

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 3666 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Soy oil
ISBN : 9781928914891

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History of Soybean Crushing: Soy Oil and Soybean Meal (980-2016): by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 378 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Soybean
ISBN : 9781928914792

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (1647-2015) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 168 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436441

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History of Soybean Physiology and Botany Research (250 BCE to 2021) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 80 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436526

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Wisconsin (1883-2021) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 188 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436632

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Middle East (1889-2021) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 47 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-06
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781928914259

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Africa (1857-2009): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook by William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

This book won the prestigious Oberly Award for the best bibliography in the agricultural or natural sciences in 2009 It contains 2,336 references. Begins with a chronology of soy in Africa from 1857 to 2009. This is a book about the history of soybeans and soyfoods in Africa, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Comoros, Congo Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of (DRC), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Niger, Reunion, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Contains a full-page color map of soy in Africa, plus 25 historical illustrations and photos, many color.