Japan's Place in the Sun
Author | : George Bronson Rea |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : George Bronson Rea |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780295959894 |
Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html
Author | : Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307762742 |
South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.
Author | : Chiyoko Higuchi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Toyokichi Iyenaga |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gillian Tett |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1448108233 |
For more than a decade, Japan's dismal economy - which has bounced from deflationary collapse to fitful recovery and back to collapse - has been the biggest obstacle to economic growth. Why has the world's second largest economy been unable to save itself? Why has a country, whose financial might in the 1980s was the most feared force on the globe, become the sick man of the world economy? Saving the Sun answers these questions and more in the riveting and remarkable story of Long Term Credit Bank, one of the world's most respected financial institutions, and its attempts to transform itself into a Western-style bank and reconcile the cultural gulf that still exists between Japan and the international banking community.'Smart and engaging-it's a riveting tale with important insights into Japan's culture and its sclerotic system.' BusinessWeek'Saving the Sun is not simply about the fate of one Japanese bank. It is about the clash of two visions of finance-and how hard it is to reconcile them.' The Wall Street Journal Europe
Author | : Michael Zielenziger |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307490904 |
The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society, and the growing numbers of “parasite singles,” the name given to single women who refuse to leave home, marry, or bear children. In Shutting Out the Sun, Michael Zielenziger argues that Japan’s rigid, tradition-steeped society, its aversion to change, and its distrust of individuality and the expression of self are stifling economic revival, political reform, and social evolution. Giving a human face to the country’s malaise, Zielenziger explains how these constraints have driven intelligent, creative young men to become modern-day hermits. At the same time, young women, better educated than their mothers and earning high salaries, are rejecting the traditional path to marriage and motherhood, preferring to spend their money on luxury goods and travel. Smart, unconventional, and politically controversial, Shutting Out the Sun is a bold explanation of Japan’s stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world.
Author | : Bruce Cumings |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2005-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393327027 |
"When Korea's Place in the Sun first appeared, Bruce Cumings argued that Korea had endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century." The new century has seen South Korea flourish after a restructuring of its political economy, and North Korea suffer through a famine that has cost the lives of millions of people. The United States continues to play an important role on the Korean peninsula, from the Clinton administration overseeing the first real hints of reunification to the Bush administration confronting a renewal of nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world." "For those who need a grounding in the tempestuous history surrounding Korea, or a context in which to understand its role in current global politics, this updated edition of Korea's Place in the Sun is a must read."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Dan Kurzman |
Publisher | : New York : Obolensky |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Dick Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9780340422151 |