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  • 100 Japanese Gardens: The Best Gardens to Visit in Japan (100 Japanese Sites to See)

    • ASIN: 4805314567
    • ISBN: 4805314567
    • Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing

    100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished landscapes in less-visited parts of the country. A celebration of Japanese landscape design, this book features gardens from Kyoto and Tokyo, as well as from the sub-arctic island of Hokkaido and the s... [Read More]

  • Amy's Guide to Best Behavior in Japan: Do It Right and Be Polite!

    • ASIN: 1611720435
    • ISBN: 1611720435
    • Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press

    This guide to common courtesy, acceptable behavior, and manners is essential for any visitor to Japan. Japanese are unfailingly polite and will never tell you if you've crossed the line. But by knowing how to act in every situation you'll gain the respect of your hosts and in the end get even better service and enjoyment during your travels. Covere... [Read More]

  • An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

    • ASIN: 1250034140
    • ISBN: 1250034140
    • Brand: Square Fish
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the f... [Read More]

  • A Year in Japan

    • ASIN: 1568985401
    • ISBN: 1568985401
    • Brand: Princeton Architectural Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press

    The Land of the Rising Sun is shining brightly across the American cultural landscape. Recent films such as Lost in Translation and Memoirs of a Geisha seem to have made everyone an expert on Japan, even if they've never been there. But the only way for a Westerner to get to know the real Japan is to become a part of it. Kate T. Williamson did just... [Read More]

  • The Samurai's Garden: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0312144075
    • ISBN: 9780312144074
    • Brand: St Martin s Griffin
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for ... [Read More]

  • A Look into Japan (Japan in Your Pocket) (No. 1)

    • ASIN: 4533013813
    • ISBN: 4533013813
    • Manufacturer: Books Nippan

    Pocket book.

  • Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity

    • ASIN: 080147356X
    • ISBN: 080147356X
    • Brand: Brand: Cornell University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cornell University Press

    Until the mid-1970s, deaf people in Japan had few legal rights and little social recognition. Legally, they were classified as minors or mentally deficient, unable to obtain driver's licenses or sign contracts and wills. Many worked at menial tasks or were constantly unemployed, and schools for the deaf taught a difficult regimen of speechreading a... [Read More]

  • Japanese Gardening in Small Spaces

    • ASIN: 0870409778
    • ISBN: 0870409778
    • Manufacturer: Japan Publications Trading

    A practical guide to planning and constructing a Japanese garden. Step-by-step instructions explain every facet, from displaying plants and rocks to mastering drainage and lighting, to creating bamboo fences and hedges.

  • Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony

    • ASIN: 0525244654
    • ISBN: 0525244654
    • Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton

    The chairman of the Sony Corporation discusses the rise of Sony, his extraordinary career as a businessman, and his views on the United States, Japan, and the world economy

  • The Garden As Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea

    • ASIN: 477001712X
    • ISBN: 477001712X
    • Brand: Brand: Kodansha International (JPN)
    • Manufacturer: Kodansha Amer Inc

    Gardens and their related architecture have always been designed in Japan, China, and Korea as a single, cohesive environment. The particular forms that these environments took over the centuries naturally reflect each country's differing aesthetic principles, but were also governed by other concerns--from religious beliefs and social structure to ... [Read More]

  • Kyoto, 29 Walks in Japan's Ancient Capital: The Definitive Guide to Kyoto's Temples, Shrines, Gardens and Palaces

    • ASIN: 4805309180
    • ISBN: 4805309180
    • Brand: Tuttle Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing

    The only Japan travel guide you'll need for getting around Kyoto! Everything you need is in this one convenient package—including extensive area maps!Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern-day center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's most beautiful and historic cities. Founded nearly 1,300 years ago and undamaged by the... [Read More]

  • Best Interests of the Student

    • ASIN: 041582379X
    • ISBN: 041582379X
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    Best Interests of the Student presents both a theoretical model for guiding educators as they confront legal and ethical dilemmas in their schools, as well as highly accessible and annotated court cases for exploration. Stefkovich introduces an ethical decision-making model that focuses on strategies for determining what actions are in the "best in... [Read More]

  • Law in Japan: A Turning Point (Asian Law Series)

    • ASIN: 0295987316
    • ISBN: 0295987316
    • Manufacturer: University of Washington Press

    This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (1963), edited by Arthur Taylor von Mehren, it features the work of thirty-five leading legal experts on most of the major fields of Japa... [Read More]

  • The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan

    • ASIN: 0345803906
    • ISBN: 0345803906
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan. Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. Focusing on the world of the emperor’s cou... [Read More]

  • Life in Old Japan Coloring Book (Dover History Coloring Book)

    • UPC: 800759468836
    • ASIN: 0486468836
    • ISBN: 0486468836
    • Brand: Dover
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    More than 40 handsome, ready-to-color illustrations depict samurai warriors, the imperial villa at Kyoto, a Shinto shrine, a tea ceremony, a Noh play, a typical city street, a restaurant, music makers, more. Introduction and detailed captions describe Japanese culture and provide detailed information on art, government, costume, and daily life.... [Read More]

  • Fodor's Tokyo 25 Best (Full-color Travel Guide)

    • ASIN: 1640970975
    • ISBN: 1640970975
    • Manufacturer: Fodor's Travel

    Compact and affordable, Fodor's 25 Best Tokyo is a great travel guide for those who want an easy-to-pack guidebook and map to one of the most exciting cities in Japan.Fodor's 25 Best Guides offer highlights of major city destinations in a compact package that includes a sturdy, detailed street map you can bring along with you to help you navigate w... [Read More]

  • Engineered in Japan: Japanese Technology - Management Practices (Japan Business and Economics Series)

    • ASIN: 0195095553
    • ISBN: 0195095553
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Engineered in Japan presents a unique and comprehensive examination of technology management in the most successful Japanese companies: unique in that all chapters go beyond superficial descriptions of stylized practices to look in depth at particular issues, often contradicting or qualifying the conventional wisdom; comprehensive in that it covers... [Read More]

  • Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde

    • ASIN: 0824838939
    • ISBN: 0824838939
    • Brand: University of Hawaii Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press

    Recasting Red Culture turns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience. Both a pol... [Read More]

  • Themes in the history of Japanese garden art

    • ASIN: 0824823125
    • ISBN: 0824823125
    • Brand: Brand: University of Hawaii Press
    • Manufacturer: Univ of Hawaii Pr

    Japanese gardens are fascinating expressions of landscape art. Their beauty speaks to everyone. What is behind this beauty? Why do the gardens of Japan speak to us so strongly? This volume delves into questions of beauty and ideas of nature expressed in the visual and literary arts of Japan as well as notions of taste and creativity in garden makin... [Read More]

  • The Buddhist Tradition: In India, China and Japan

    • ASIN: 0394716965
    • ISBN: 0394716965
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    This book, compiled from basic Buddhist writings, presents a survey of Buddhist thought in India, China, and Japan, covering the central doctrines and practices that has profoundly influenced human life in Asia. Developments in practical ethics, social attitudes, philosophical speculation, and religious and aesthetic contemplation are represented b... [Read More]

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