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Japan Restored by Clyde Prestowitz
epub |eng | | Author:Clyde Prestowitz

THEN IT ALL CHANGED In 1990, seven of the world’s top twelve electronics firms were Japanese. By 2012, only two remained in the top rankings. The number one spot had ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 9,2018 )
The Gender of Memory by Hershatter Gail;
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Hershatter, Gail;

WRITING Labor models were made, not born, and in the paper trail their careers left behind we can discern the process of their creation. From the early years of the ...
( Category: Anthropology April 9,2018 )
Asia Betrayed by John Bell Smithback
epub |eng | 2017-11-08 | Author:John Bell Smithback

* * * 1 Max Hastings and others, Beheaded at whim and worked to death: Japan’s repugnant treatment of Allied PoWs. Last updated on 18 September 2007 by Daily Mail, ...
( Category: Asia April 8,2018 )
Island of Guanyin: Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers by Bingenheimer Marcus
epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Bingenheimer, Marcus [Bingenheimer, Marcus]

Exhibit 2: Tu Long’s “Twelve Famous Views of Mount Putuo” (c. 1589) In 1925 Lu Xun was both sad and amused to hear that the Leifeng Pagoda, one of the ...
( Category: World April 8,2018 )
Out of North Korea: A Korean Boy Tells His Rescue Story in Pictures by Flinchbaugh C. Hope & Austen Jessica
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Flinchbaugh, C. Hope & Austen, Jessica [Flinchbaugh, C. Hope]

Two North Korean females, name and ages not known. Seized on 22 May 2005 during a worship service in Chang Choon City One North Korean male (26) and three North ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 8,2018 )
Eight Survived by Douglas Campbell
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Campbell

Alvin Jacobson, on the other hand, was now a qualified submariner. This meant that when he was not on watch, he could relax in the wardroom with other officers and ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
Chronicles of My Life by Donald Keene
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Donald Keene [Keene, Donald]

When I left Japan in 1955, I wept in the airplane at the thought I might never again have enough money to return. As a matter of fact, however, I ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides April 8,2018 )
Toxic War by Peter Sills
epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Peter Sills [Sills, Peter]

The veterans who brought this lawsuit actually agreed, for the most part, with Spey. They decided not to name the federal government as a defendant. They didn’t want to sue ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
The History of US-Japan Relations by Makoto Iokibe
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Makoto Iokibe [Iokibe, Makoto]

Continuity and Change between the Ikeda and Satō Governments In November 1964, when Japan was basking in the glory of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and coming to terms with the ...
( Category: Asia April 8,2018 )
Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines by Ortega Arnisson Andre
epub |eng | 2012-04-08 | Author:Ortega, Arnisson Andre

Remittance monies are crucial to the sustenance of everyday life inside the gates, from payment of HOA association fees to basic housing utility payments. Those who rely on remittance monies ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 8,2018 )
The Burden of White Supremacy by David C. Atkinson
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David C. Atkinson

CHAPTER SIX Making Peace with Asian Immobility London, Paris, and Washington The end of the First World War raised expectations of social, economic, and political change across the globe. The ...
( Category: Sociology April 8,2018 )
The Way of the Brush by Fritz van Briessen
epub |eng | | Author:Fritz van Briessen

OPENING AND CLOSING. What might be called a further, or a higher, development of the host-guest principle, is one called k'ai ho: the opening and closing of a painting. In ...
( Category: Asia April 8,2018 )
Balinese Art by Adrian Vickers
epub |eng | | Author:Adrian Vickers

Fig. 39 Dewa Kompiang Kandel, Batuan, Village Scene of Puaya, 1930s, washed pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 70 x 50 cm, ex-Haks collection, Singapore Batuan Collection (photo Ken ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles April 8,2018 )
Samurai Women 1184-1877 by Stephen Turnbull
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Stephen Turnbull

In this illustration from a woodblock-printed edition of Hojo godaiki we see the aftermath of Hojo Soun’s capture of Fukane Castle. Among the line of heads placed along the castle ...
( Category: Asia April 7,2018 )
Viceroy's House by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
epub |eng | 2017-02-06 | Author:Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre [Collins, Larry; Lapierre, Dominique]

That grand and guilty edifice, the British Raj, was no more. Beyond New Delhi’s Constituent Assembly hall, in the vastness of the two new states, the momentous changes portended by ...
( Category: Asia April 7,2018 )

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