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Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society by Gracia Liu-Farrer
pdf | | | Author:Gracia Liu-Farrer

( Category: Japan October 9,2022 )
The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Ian Buruma [Buruma, Ian]

TOKYO The law court in Nuremberg looks solid—indestructible almost—in a city that lacks solidity. The restored medievalism of the old town center gives the city a stagey atmosphere, as though ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2017 )
Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 by Francis Pike
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Francis Pike [Pike, Francis]

is a growing incidence of scrub typhus here … There are some tremendous rats in the area, and no doubt the fleas on same are carrying the infection from the ...
( Category: Japan February 24,2017 )
The Leper Spy by Ben Montgomery
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Ben Montgomery

Gen. Douglas MacArthur during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Behind General MacArthur are Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Lt. Gen. A. ...
( Category: Women February 8,2017 )
Just Enough by Azby Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Azby Brown

Like their counterparts around Japan, these town-houses are models of natural climate control for high-density urban areas. Most have been designed with tiny gardens in back, and quite a few ...
( Category: Residential December 8,2016 )
Death on the Hellships by Gregory F. Michno
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Gregory F. Michno

THE SUMMER SHIPS The threat of the approaching Americans made the tropical Philippine atmosphere even more feverish in the summer of 1944. Prisoners were shifted among the islands and from ...
( Category: World War II August 21,2016 )
Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Benedict

Kapali, kapali, twisting around, he laughs with joy. I with my garden darkened with foliage, I with my leaves. Kapali, kapali, twisting around, he laughs with joy. During all this ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies July 18,2016 )
The Castaway's War by Stephen Harding
epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Stephen Harding

The future USS Strong (DD-467) takes shape on the ways at Bath Iron Works (BIW). Hull number 193 was among the first six of an eventual 31 2,100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers ...
( Category: Japan May 10,2016 )
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War) by Toland John
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Toland, John [Toland, John]

Here, I felt, all were my brothers, not merely in a figurative sense, but literally as sons of the same Mother Asia. Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Manchukuoan, Filipino, Burmese, Indian—Asiatics all, ...
( Category: Japan May 8,2016 )
The Invitation-Only Zone by Robert S. Boynton
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Robert S. Boynton

13 TERROR IN THE AIR Korean Air Flight 858 departed Baghdad’s Saddam International Airport at 11:30 p.m. on November 28, 1987. The Boeing 707 was filled with South Korean laborers ...
( Category: Asian May 4,2016 )
Germany's Last Mission to Japan by Joseph Mark Scalia
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Joseph Mark Scalia [Scalia Mark Joseph]

Commanding the naval contingent to Japan was forty-eight-year-old Gerhard Falcke, a naval construction engineer and electrical welding expert. Upon the conclusion of preliminary POW interrogations, the ONI assessed Falcke as ...
( Category: Japan April 30,2016 )
The Comfort Women by George Hicks
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:George Hicks

As in many war crimes trials, the court proceedings essentially became a simple ratification of the findings of earlier investigations. They were in any case something of a legal hybrid, ...
( Category: World War II April 29,2016 )
making of modern japan by jansen marius b
epub |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:jansen, marius b [jansen, marius b]

5. The Diplomacy of Imperialism In the years after the Treaty of Shimonoseki imperialist pressures increased in East Asia. Expansion driven by industrialization seemed to be the destiny of modern ...
( Category: Regional April 23,2016 )
Journey to the Heart of Aikido by Linda Holiday
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Linda Holiday [Holiday, Linda]

Study the Leaf Sensei, you often say that what you received of O-Sensei’s teaching is only a fraction of what he taught. Now that we are studying with you, we ...
( Category: Eastern April 16,2016 )
Children of the Occupation by Walter Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Hamilton

13 Kiyotaka’s story Corporal Charles Nation, a gangly, fair-haired, 26-year-old Australian veteran of the Borneo campaign, joined BCOF in 1947 and was assigned as an orderly-room clerk. Yoshie Kawasaki, a ...
( Category: Asian American Studies April 8,2016 )

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