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Coming home from a holiday they never wanted to take Yogan Baum and his wife have to confront a terror you can't smell, can't hear, can't see. Life has its demands however and people near Fukushima Dai-ichi either leave or try to cope with their fear.Extraordinary efforts are made to somehow go back to life as it was before the triple disaster of 3/11. TEPCO lie through their teeth about causes and effects of the meltdowns and the political establishment...
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Utagawa Hiroshige's two Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, 1852 and 1858, are both a copy act and in themselves innovative artistic endeavors.Katsushika Hokusai published his famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji in 1830-1832 and it influenced Hiroshige tremendously to do his own series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series 1852, and 1858, which we deal with here.Hiroshige shifted to the vertical portrait format with novel and interesting...
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February 1945.
World War Two is entering its sixth year. In Europe, Germany is on its knees, its shattered cities in ruins, battered by clouds of bombers attacking day and night. In the Pacific, the war has been raging for just over three years-the island battles producing rivers of blood-but only a handful of bombs have fallen on Japan.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the most sophisticated airplane in the world, was the only airplane that...
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Hokusai's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō 1805-1806 is something completely different!It is different from his famous 36 Views of Mt Fuji, which are sublime artistic expressions distilling a long life's work.It is different from much of Hokusai's other well known work, like his 100 Views of Mt Fuji. But in that series Hokusai still retained a lot of the humor and the caricature found here.It is different from the many other well known 53 Stations of...
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A big open-air rock festival is held annually every summer in the small town where I live that is enclosed by mountains. More than ten times as many people as the town's population visit during the few days of the festival. People all over the country and even from overseas fill up the train station that is usually inactive and quiet. In front of it, an endlessly long line is formed in the heat for the shuttle bus to the concert venue.The attendance...
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The hotel I checked in on my trip to Kyoto gave me a discount coupon for the buffet breakfast and I had it next morning at the restaurant. The buffet had Japanese expensive dishes in addition to the familiar Western breakfast dishes, which made up the most luxurious buffet breakfast I'd ever had.As there were many foreign guests around, it produced an international atmosphere. One of the walls of the restaurant was the glass window from the ceiling...
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In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the present day. In 1946 the Allies convened the Tokyo Trial to prosecute Japanese wartime atrocities and Japan's empire. At its conclusion one of the judges voiced dissent, claiming that the justice found at Tokyo was only "the sham employment of a legal process for the satisfaction of a thirst for...
9) Japanese Language & Culture: How to Discover the Ins and Outs of Japanese Society so that You Can
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Are you planning a trip to Japan and would like to enjoy an unforgettable experience?Are you learning Japanese and would like to know how to use the language correctly? If you answered "Yes!" to at least one of the previous questions, then this book is for you!This book will help you to know the in's and out's of Japanese society and walk among the people as if you were one of them, Here is a preview of what you can expect:Walks you through the history...
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