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Books on: japanese author

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Images of Japanese Women: A Westerner's View

Book by Bettina L. Knapp; Whitston, 1992

Subjects:

Japan--Social Life And Customs, Women Authors, Japanese, Women In Literature--Japan--History, Women--Japan--History

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...translated works from English to Japanese and was the first Japanese woman author to write about mothers and...popularity of other women authors of her generation. "Full...creation of a "new" type Japanese mother Noriko Mizuta Lippit...
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Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Book by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden; M.E. Sharpe, 1991

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Japanese Fiction--20th Century--Translations Into English, Japanese Fiction--Women Authors--Translations Into English, Short Stories, Japanese--Translations Into English, Women--Japan--Social Life And Customs--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fiction were developed by its author, Murasaki Shikibu, and by the author of the poetic diary Kagero...as rank fabrications, the author of Kagero Nikki declared that...genre. The dual structure of Japanese literature, divided between...
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Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will, and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women

Book by Victoria V. Vernon; Institute of East Asian Studies, 1988

Subjects:

Fiction, Japanese Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Japanese Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to the former glories of the Japanese woman and mentions that Amaterasu...the mythical founder of the Japanese race, was a goddess. The author can only surmise that the present...and moral function; but the Japanese classics were deemed with some...
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Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature

Book by The Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai; Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai ( The Society for International Cultural Relations), 1939

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Authors, Japanese, Japanese Literature--History And Criticism, Japanese Literature--Translations Into English

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature includes eighty...arrangement, works by the same author may appear separately from...name of the work is given in Japanese in Romaji transcription, followed...names are accompanied by the Japanese equivalents, in the hope that...
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The Japanese Frontier in Hawaii, 1868-1898

Book by Hilary Conroy; University of California Press, 1953

Subjects:

Hawaii--Emigration And Immigration, Hawaii--Foreign Relations--Japan, Japan--Foreign Relations--Hawaii, Japanese--Hawaii

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Wakukawa , A History of the Japanese People in Hawaii , pp...43-48. Note: A Japanese author writing in English is...Embassy , p. 7. The Japanese title is Kokai Nikki Diary of a Voyage and the author was Yanagawa Masakiyo...

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Journal Articles on: japanese author

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Japanese Utopian Literature from the 1870s to the Present and the Influence of Western Utopianism(*)

Journal article by Yoriko Moichi; Utopian Studies, Vol. 10, 1999

Subjects:

Japanese literature--20th century, Utopias in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...history of the development of Japanese utopian/dystopian literature from the 1870s reveals how Japanese authors have molded their utopian...Akutagawas short fiction Kappa the author faces the problem of the interaction...range of readers. The two Japanese texts which Keith Booker lists...
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Becoming a Model Minority: The Depiction of Japanese Canadians in the Globe and Mail, 1946-2000

Journal article by Naoko Hawkins; Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Vol. 41, 2009

Subjects:

Globe and Mail (Newspaper), Japanese Canadians--Media coverage, Journalism--Demographic aspects, Journalism--Objectivity, Journalistic objectivity--Demographic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Canadians. Successful Japanese Canadians like author Joy Kogawa, architect...common portrayal of Japanese Canadians as authors and writers in the...class inequality among Japanese Canadians. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to thank Art...
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The Word "Is" the Thing: The "Kotodama" Belief in Japanese Communication

Journal article by Kazuya Hara; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 58, 2001

Subjects:

Japanese--Social aspects, Language and languages--Social aspects, Spiritualism--Social aspects, Word (Linguistics)--Social aspects

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...English, with some Japanese kanji characters) in...consultation with the author, Mr. Kazuya Hara...by permission of the author. Contact Gregory Sawin...and expansion of the authors M.A. thesis, which...School in 1997. The author would like to express...Contextual Model of the Japanese: Toward a Methodological...
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The Word "is" the Thing: the "kotodama" Belief in Japanese Communication

Journal article by Kazuya Hara; et Cetera, Vol. 58, 2002

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Japanese language, Semantics, Superstition

Collections: Entire Library

...Kotodama belief also shapes Japanese peoples worldview, functioning...communication model, the author constructed a simplified...communication model between two Japanese, both of whom are under...kotodama belief plays in Japanese communication praxis. In conclusion, the author should note that the...
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America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy

Journal article by Tosh Minohara; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007

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America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (Book)

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...was a given and the Japanese were mere bystanders. Although the author acknowledges that...reimagine" the Japanese. Another weakness...is that while the author claims that the "reimagining" of the Japanese allowed Americans...

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Magazine Articles on: japanese author

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Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act

Magazine article by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes; California History, Vol. 82, Spring 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...significant role in defusing U.S.-Japanese tensions during the critical...peaceful vision of U.S.-Japanese relations." The author has done an amazing amount of...the official records of the Japanese Foreign Ministry and State Department...
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Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment

Magazine article by Elena Tajima Creef; California History, Vol. 87, September 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (Collection)--Book reviews, The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal During Worl War II (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during World War II...intervention in the history of Japanese American relocation and internment...STUDIES, WELLESLEY COLLEGE, AND AUTHOR OF IMAGING JAPANESE AMERICA: THE VISUAL CONSTRUCTION...
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Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934-1990

Magazine article by Roger Daniels; California History, Vol. 82, Fall 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934-1990 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the best account we have of Japanese Los Angeles in the twentieth...Coast cities. ROGER DANIELS, AUTHOR OF PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL: JAPANESE AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR II AND...POLITICS OF PREJUDICE: THE ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA.
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Mieko: a Story of Japanese Culture

Magazine article by Alice Kurtz; MultiMedia Schools, Vol. 5, May/Jun 1998

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CD-ROM, Culture, Digital Mieko-A Story of Japanese Culture, Digital Productions Inc, Educational software, Japan

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...cultural elements of her Japanese heritage. The complete...French, German, Spanish, Japanese, or English. The opening...on different aspects of Japanese life, view a video and slide show about the author and how he created this...
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Violence among Japanese Youth

Magazine article by Raymond Lamont-Brown; Contemporary Review, Vol. 277, August 2000

Subjects:

Japan--Social aspects, Japanese students--Psychology and mental health, Juvenile delinquency--Japan, Violence in children--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...information technology, which the Japanese have at their fingertips...really has gone wrong with Japanese society is that it did not...between the mixture of old Japanese values and the demands of modernity...Raymond Lamont-Brown is an author, broadcaster and Japanologist...

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Newspaper Articles on: japanese author

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Japanese Author's Despair Prophetic: But Suicide Tainted Legacy of Mishima

Newspaper article by Willis Witter; The Washington Times, May 3, 1996

Subjects:

Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Japanese authors despair prophetic...Prize for literature. Japanese today remember Mr...believes that if the author had lived to see the...of not a few young Japanese today," said Mr. Stokes, who knew the author for the five years...part documentary on Japanese public television marked...revealing glimpse into the authors troubled mind, which...
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Japanese Author Says Gender Equity Will Cure Social Ills

Newspaper article by Cheryl Wetzstein; The Washington Times, May 10, 1999

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Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Japanese author says gender equity will cure social ills...LUMPUR, Malaysia - "`The brain of a Japanese man is so slow to change," laments Tomoko Inukai, a maverick Japanese writer. Miss Inukai believes that unless...
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Stories Too Precious to Wait for Publisher; New Japanese Authors Take Up Challenge and Expense

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 8, 2006

Subjects:

Publishing industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...for Publisher; New Japanese Authors Take Up Challenge and...make her debut as an author at her own expense...000 copies, but some authors self-publish books...another self-publishing author and full-time homemaker...Net sales by the Japanese book publishing industry...Japan, big-name authors are struggling while...
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The Welshman Who Is the Japanese Bill Oddie; TV Celebrity and Author Returns to Land of His Birth to Help Forestry Project

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 12, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Welshman Who Is the Japanese Bill Oddie; TV Celebrity and Author Returns to Land of His Birth...sexiest man in jeans" on Japanese television and is one of the...Clive Nicol, who speaks fluent Japanese and who is a seventh dan black...
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Philosophy in Motion Professor, Author Draws Life Lessons from Study of Japanese Martial Arts

Newspaper article by Nancy Luebke; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 12, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Philosophy in Motion Professor, Author Draws Life Lessons from Study of Japanese Martial Arts. by Nancy Luebke...Fabian. Wearing a traditional Japanese training outfit, Fabian cuts...pants and a white top with Japanese lettering on the left sleeve...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: japanese author

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Hearn, Lafcadio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...LAFCADIO lafka deo hurn, 1850 1904, American-Japanese author, b. Lefkas, Ionian Islands, of Irish-Greek...what is considered his best work. He married a Japanese woman, taught in Japanese universities, and became a Japanese citizen...
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Mishima, Yukio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...YUKIO yoo keo mish ema, 1925 70, Japanese author, b. Tokyo. His original name...love story of a boy and girl in a Japanese fishing village; The Temple of...demonstration in which he harangued the Japanese self-defense forces for their...
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Kawabata, Yasunari

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...yasoona re kawa bata, 1899 1972, Japanese novelist. His first major work...to be a leader of the school of Japanese writers that propounded a lyrical...1968, Kawabata became the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of Chokodo Shujin choko do shoo jin, 1892 1927, Japanese author. One of Japans finest short-story writers, he derived many of his tales from historical Japanese sources, but told them with psychological insights...
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Tanaka, Giichi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...GIICHI ge-e che ta naka, 1863 1929, Japanese statesman and general. He is famous as the alleged author of the so-called Tanaka Memorial (1927...similarity in part to the subsequent course of Japanese military expansion convinced many of its...

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