Hotaka
Author | : John Heffernan |
Publisher | : Through My Eyes |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-09 |
Genre | : Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 |
ISBN | : 9781760630003 |
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Author | : John Heffernan |
Publisher | : Through My Eyes |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-09 |
Genre | : Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 |
ISBN | : 9781760630003 |
Author | : John Heffernan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2017-02-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781525241475 |
When the tsunami strikes the Japanese seaside town of Omori-wan, the effects are utterly devastating. Three years later, much of what happened on that day is still a mystery. As Hotaka sets about convincing local performers to appear at the town's upcoming Memorial Concert, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of best friend, Takeshi, who perished without trace in the tsunami. Then his friend Sakura becomes involved in an anti-seawall movement, and all too quickly the protest gets serious. As the town and its people struggle to rebuild their lives, can Hotaka piece together what happened that day - and let go of the past?
Author | : Joshua Hotaka Roth |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801488085 |
Faced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the migration of Nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) who are presumed to assimilate more easily than are foreign nationals without a Japanese connection. More than 250,000 Nikkeijin, mainly from Brazil, now work in Japan. The interactions between Nikkeijin and natives, says Joshua Hotaka Roth, play a significant role in the emergence of an increasingly multicultural Japan. He uses the experiences of Japanese Brazilians in Japan to illuminate the racial, cultural, linguistic, and other criteria groups use to distinguish themselves from one another. Roth's analysis is enriched by on-site observations at festivals, in factories, and in community centers, as well as by interviews with workers, managers, employment brokers, and government officials.Considered both "essentially Japanese" and "foreign," nikkeijin benefit from preferential immigration policy, yet face economic and political strictures that marginalize them socially and deny them membership in local communities. Although the literature on immigration tends to blame native blue-collar workers for tense relations with migrants, Roth makes a compelling case for a more complex definition of the relationships among class, nativism, and foreign labor. Brokered Homeland is enlivened by Roth's own experience: in Japan, he came to think of himself as nikkeijin, rather than as Japanese-American.
Author | : André Sorensen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2005-08-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134736576 |
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctive patterns of urbanisation are partly a product of the highly developed urban system, urban traditions and material culture of the pre-modern period, which remained influential until well after the Pacific War. A second key influence has been the dominance of central government in urban affairs, and its consistent prioritisation of economic growth over the public welfare or urban quality of life. André Sorensen examines Japan's urban trajectory from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, paying particular attention to the weak development of Japanese civil society, local governments, and land development and planning regulations.
Author | : André Sorensen |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Citizens' associations |
ISBN | : 0415547075 |
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. This volume examines the growth and nature of civil society participation in local urban and environmental governance.
Author | : Okpyo Moon |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : 9780719029578 |
Author | : United States. Office of Geography |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Geography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amal Elhshik |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2016-02-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1329414551 |
With Inuyasha now among their group, Nightingale and her friends not only face the constant threat of Belladonna's wrath, but that of the passions of youth as well. Being herself, Nightingale is determined to block out any thoughts or feelings of love or any of the sort. But slowly, and as her sisters begin to fall for Inuyasha and other men and discord spreads among them, Nightingale realizes she can't hide her feelings for Inuyasha anymore--but by then, it's too late. Assuming that the demonslayer sisters blame him for all their disunity, Inuyasha abandons Nightingale and her sisters, leaving Nightingale's heart in pieces. Faced with a new challenge, she leaves her sisters behind to fend for themselves and goes with Yasmina and Midnight to find Inuyasha and bring him back. To her, this is just a matter of apologizing to Inuyasha for making him feel bad, but could it be that Inuyasha is the reason Nightingale still lives after having died many centuries ago?
Author | : Japan. Tetsudōin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Japan. Tetsudōin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Railroad travel |
ISBN | : |