Japan
epub |eng | 1994-06-11 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld [Greenfeld, Karl Taro]

“Hello, uh, this is Takehiro Hashimoto speaking, may I please speak with Keiko Nakagami?” “That is me.” “Uh. Thank you very much for coming to lunch with my family and ...
( Category: General June 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1968-06-15 | Author:Jack Seward [Seward, Jack]

Kaishaku The word kaishaku means "to attend," "to look after," or "to serve." In the course of time, this term came to be used solely to refer to the act ...
( Category: Suicide June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Janice P. Nimura [Nimura, Janice P.]

BY THE END of that first spring, Ume despaired of ever repaying the debt she owed Japan. On bad days, she expressed her unhappiness in the same bleak terms Sutematsu ...
( Category: Japan June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Totman, Conrad [Totman, Conrad]

10 THE AGE OF GROWTH(1590–1700) Dimensions of Expansion Kyoto Revived Enriching a Common Higher Culture 11 STASIS AND DECAY (1700–1850) Primary Production:Trends and Ramifications Cultural and Political Trends 12 CRISIS ...
( Category: Japan June 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Kaiten Nukariya

* * * 21. The Betterment of Life. Again, people nowadays seem to feel keenly the wound of the economical results of war, but they are unfeeling to its moral ...
( Category: Philosophy May 30,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Lochbaum, David & Lyman, Edwin & Stranahan, Susan Q. [Lochbaum, David]

On the opening day of the school year on April 6, 2011, a first-grader puts on her hat during an elementary school enrollment ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Despite the ...
( Category: Nuclear May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

At the island school, now an evacuation center for those who lost their houses, we’re met by a young Japanese man wearing a Yankees jersey, number 55, Hideki Matsui’s number. ...
( Category: Japan April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Stephen K. Hayes [Hayes, Stephen K.]

The hour of our ninjutsu demonstration for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department had arrived. Our show had been preceded by demonstrations of judo, traditional Japanese swordsmanship, kendo, and two types ...
( Category: Martial Arts February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Sheftall, M.G. [Sheftall, M.G.]

Looks like rainy season is upon us again. It certainly sounds like you are training very hard. We were all shocked speechless to hear about Corporal Makiuchi’s death. He sounded ...
( Category: Japan January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Samuel Hawley

CHAPTER 18 Seoul Retaken Spring—arguably the most beautiful season in Korea. After a harsh winter of ice and snow and cold north winds, the warming weather and first green shoots ...
( Category: China January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 1989-04-10 | Author:Karel van Wolferen [Wolferen, Karel van]

Avoiding distinctions Some post-war Japanese intellectuals such as political theorist Maruyama Masao and his followers seem to be bothered by the continued refusal to apply universal principles by which the ...
( Category: Asian January 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Kaibara Ekken

31 Zhu Xi said, “If people take an attitude that they don’t rely on only one school and are not partial to only one theory, they will get a hodgepodge ...
( Category: Eastern January 8,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld

( Category: General January 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:George Weller [Weller, George]

XI The Defense of Australia By his own admission, Weller arrived in Australia scared and filled with “guilt about the people left behind.” (At least one colleague “escaped and went ...
( Category: Nuclear December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Robert Leckie

Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...
( Category: Japan December 19,2014 )