These books are really textbooks just for learning kanji. Each lesson covers about 10 characters and begins with a section called "About the kanji" which gives interesting background on the kanji you are about to learn. Next comes writing and reading lessons for each kanji. Lastly, there is a longer reading section followed by a game or some quiz.

    The conditions inflicted by that bomb transcend the capacity of words and even pictures to convey. Only those who were here at the time can know the full reality, and the survivors of that horror know from their experience that nuclear weapons are incompatible with human life on Earth. Many have spent their lives appealing constantly, "Never again! Nuclear weapons must be banned and eliminated." In this book, we present the thoughts, feelings, and memories of fifteen survivors (two of whom are now deceased). All have taken part in peace studies programs held by this Foundation, telling their A-bomb experiences to students who come to Hiroshima on school excursions. In addition, because so many Koreans and other non-Japanese were exposed to the bomb, we present a chapter contributed by an expert in that field.

    Its objective is to lead beginning students up to a point where they are able to communicate effectively in practical, everyday encounters. The course presents dialogues and expressions in Japanese, together with useful cultural information, enabling students to use the language as a native speaker would in a variety of real-life situations.

    After a year's detention, he continued to Tibet and India where he was recruited by British Intelligence to gather information on Chinese intentions in Eastern Tibet.

    Magnificently illustrated oversized book contains color reproductions of 37 screens from the Muromachi through the Edo periods (1392-1868).

    Basic Technical Japanese takes you step by step from an introduction to the Japanese writing system through a mastery of grammar and scientific vocabulary to reading actual texts in Japanese. You can use the book to study independently or in formal classes.     This book places special emphasis on the kanji (characters) that occur most often in technical writing. There are special chapters on the language of mathematics and chemistry, and vocabulary building and reading exercises in physics, chemistry, biology, and biochemistry. With extensive character charts and vocabulary lists, Basic Technical Japanese is entirely self-contained; no dictionaries or other reference works are needed.

    Hasegawa's work really is quite unique - like Tom of Finland, he has given the gay male world more classic iconic images which though thoroughly Japanese have become truly international. His work is both incredibly sexy and an amazing hybrid -- influenced by major world cultures.

    This workbook is a self contained course, which can be used both for independent study or in the classroom. It can also serve as an ideal supplement to any basic conversation course in Japanese.

    This peaceful meeting gave rise to the 1918 race riots, a series of mass demonstrations and armed clashes that spread rapidly throughout the country on a scale unprecedented in modern Japanese history. In this penetrating study, Michael Lewis questions standard historical interpretations of the riots. What political significance did the riots have in the communities where they occurred? How and why did protest change from region to region or when carried out by different groups? How did officials, community leaders, and businessmen cope with the unrest? What effects did the riots have on national and local political relations and economic ties among these various groups? Lewis argues that the 1918 protests defy a single typology--urban and rural protests had different causes, patterns, forms of mediation, and resolutions. In 1918 Meiji leaders had been struggling for fifty years to create a new citizenry, unified ideologically and consistently supportive of national goals. The disunity revealed by the riots does not suggest that Japan had become polarized between the people and the state; rather, in the wake of the riots, new forms of social policy and public political involvement became possible. In analyzing the changing traditions of Japanese popular protest in the transition from a rural to an industrial economy, Rioters and Citizens suggests that the diversity of Japanese protests necessitates a rethinking of the stereotypical images of prewar Japanese society as blandly uniform and rigidly controlled by government ideology. It further suggests that in Japan, as in Europe, the action of the unenfranchised crowd came to influence the course of political and social change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

    Maurice Collis (1889-1973) spent more than twenty years as a British civil servant in Burma. He was a noted scholar and travel writer.

    Hoyt demonstrates both his flair for dramatic battle accounts and his penetrating eye for personal and political motivation. He offers a thorough and engaging portrait of Admiral Yamamoto and, from that vantage point, provides a revealing new view of the events of World War II."Yamamoto" details his life from his youth in Nagaoka and his early military successes, to the dynamic leader's orchestration of the infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, his subsequent naval victories, and his eventual assassination by American fighter planes in the Solomon Islands at the order of President Roosevelt himself.

    

    The book summarizes the teachings of Tendai Tantric Buddhism, as practiced on Mt. Hiei, Kyoto, by a Master of the Homan devotional (Bakhti) school, one of the major kinds of Tantric Meditation practiced in Japan. Profuse woodblock and line art illustrate the mudra, mantra, and mandala of Tantric practice.

    D?gen is known for his extensive writing including the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma or Sh?b?genz?, a collection of ninety-five fascicles concerning Buddhist practice and enlightenment.The primary concept underlying D?gen's Zen practice is oneness of practice-enlightenment. In fact, this concept is considered so fundamental to D?gen's variety of Zen-and, consequently, to the S?t? school as a whole-that it formed the basis for the work Shush?-gi, which was compiled in 1890 by Takiya Takush? of Eihei-ji and Azegami Baisen of S?ji-ji as an introductory and prescriptive abstract of D?gen's massive work, the Sh?b?genz? (Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma).Dogen is a profoundly original and difficult 13th century Buddhist thinker whose works have begun attracting increasing attention in the West. Admittedly difficult for even the most advanced and sophisticated scholar of Eastern thought, he is bound, initially, to present an almost insurmountable barrier to the Western mind. Yet the task of penetrating that barrier must be undertaken and, in fact, is being carried out by many gifted scholars toiling in the Dogen vineyard.

    For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women created, commissioned, collected and used paintings, yet until recently this fact has scarcely been acknowledged in the study of East Asian art by Westerners.

    

    Included are a wide variety of patterns and motifs: allover patterns, individual nature scenes, grand floral sprays or tree branches, and more — some featuring birds and butterflies, some delicate and full of fine detail, others bolder in concept. Madeleine Orban-Szontagh has adapted these designs from watercolors, screens, lacquer boxes, wall hangings, the fabulous costumes of the Noh drama, and many examples of kimonos — all dating from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Artists and crafters searching for clearly detailed patterns and motifs suggesting the subtle elegance of Japanese design will find this collection indispensable.

    

    Eventually, these pictures began to border on the ludicrous, and a demand arose for something more spiritual. Simultaneously, country people knowing nothing of big-city life needed prints with a more general theme. These demands were met by kacho-ga, literally flower-and-bird pictures, which, as a genre, began to attract increasing numbers of artists, among them two of the greatest and most famous, Hokusai and Hiroshige.The idea underlying kacho-ga was not a simple reproduction of nature, but an expression of some subjective emotion, giving pleasure to the refined mind that delights in the contemplation of natural beauty.Hokusai, in both his woodblock prints and his paintings, brings aesthetic discipline to nature; he makes careful compositions of plants and animals, depicting them with fine, precise lines. Hiroshige, on the other hand, reveals a gentle romanticism which is absent in Hokusai's work, and adopts a more poetical approach.Both these outstanding artists, while painting in the same genre, brought their individual artistic vision to the subjects. Yet both also display a uniquely Japanese sensibility to nature.

    

    Describing the onstage magic and the backstage hierarchy that is Kabuki, this book looks at the 500-year-old spectacle of dance, music and elaborate costume from an actor's point of view."

    Like other playwrights before him, Chikamatsu created characters who are members of a society driven by its mores. However, unlike those of other playwrights of the period, Chikamatsu's characters have multidimensional personalities and unconventional voices, making his art more realistic and complex.Includes The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinjū), The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (Horikawa Nami no Tsuzumi), Yosaku from Tamba (Tamba Yosaku), The Love Suicides in the Womens Temple (Shinjū Mannensō), The Courier for Hell (Meido no Hikyaku), Gonza the Lancer (Yari no Gonza), The Uprooted Pine (Nebiki no Kadomatsu), The Girl from Hakata or Love at Sea (Hakata Kojorō Namimakura), The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinjū Ten no Amijima), The Battles of Coxinga (Kokusenya Kassen), The Woman-Killer and the Hell of Oil (Onnagoroshi Abura Jigoku)

    Analszing conversations among viewers in Israel, Japan and the U. S., they show that viewers possess a good deal more critical ability than they are commonly given credit for.

    Here came mane who left their homes, cities, and farms to search for the elusive metal, GOLD. And because of the impact of emotions involved, the twisted lives and broken dreams, no area is more predominant in lingering ghosts, visions of yesteryear and psychic phenomena. There were the miners, wind and sun weathered men, determined to wrest wealth from the sand and soil. They came by the thousands on horseback and foot, in long wagon trains "cross deserts and mountains, in wooden vessels 'round stormy Cape Horn. And with them came the storekeepers, saloon operators, criminals, professional gamblers and the prostitutes. They're all gone now. The hearts and hands that once knew triumph and despair have been dust for many years. But their shades walk the lonely streets and drift through the dark empty buildings. Listen in the still of the night and you may still hear a faint laugh or the distant tinkle of a glass. Join us as we explore this twilight zone of the strange ad bizarre.

    His themes-first love, lost love, change, fate-are universal ones, but his characters and settings are Japanese.

    Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of age, sex, and former caste.

    Traditionally, it has been widely believed that these children were stigmatized and that they faced severe problems inadjusting to the realities of living in Japanese society. Drawing on his long-term fieldwork in one of the special schools set up to receive these children, this book is the first to challenge these ideas. Goodman argues that the convergence of several factors--particularly parental status and apowerful new political rhetoric stressing internationalization--is making these returnee children the vanguard of a new social elite.

    1? Well, maybe it is if you only consider those sectors where it is particularly successful. But not if you add many others where its performance is mediocre or worse. Is Japan No. 1? Well, maybe it is if you ask the foreign "friends" who have made a career (and sometimes a fortune) as apologists of Japanese causes. But, if you ask the Japanese themselves, you will find that they are anything but satisfied. Is Japan No. 1? Well, maybe it is if you are taken in by the tatemae, i.e. the official version or how its admirers like to picture it. But it does not look so great once you perceive the honne, i.e. the realities of life in Japan. Is Japan No. 1? Well, maybe it is if you take what is best in Japan and contrast it to what is less good in foreign countries. But it does not compare so well if you mix the good with the bad in both places. No, the author does not think that Japan is a horrible place or that its leaders have made a complete mess of things. But, if you look closely, it is certainly not the extraordinary success it is frequently claimed to be. It is closer to the mean, with many serious problems that will only get worse if people foolishly assume it is No. 1.

    It offers detailed directions, points of interest, background information, and drawings of each temple.

    Provides patterns and directions for a variety of traditional and contemporary projects using the Japanese sashiko technique.