31861Japanamerica : how Japanese pop culture has invaded the U.S
Japanamerica is the first book that directly addresses the American experience with the Japanese pop phenomenon. With insights from artists, critics, readers, and fans from both nations, this book is as literate as it is hip, highlighting the shared conflicts as American and Japanese pop cultures collide in the here and now.
31862Japanese architecture : an exploration of elements and forms
Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls of farmers' houses, intricate carved wood transoms and precisely woven tatami mats of aristocratic compounds - each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story. From roofs, walls, and floors to door pulls and kettle hangers, this book situates the stories firmly within the natural environment and the traditional culture of Japan
31863Japanese diasporas : unsung pasts, conflicting presents, and uncertain futures
Part 1: Origins of the Japanese Diaspora. Part 2: Cultural Identity: From the Incipient Diaspora to Classic Diaspora. Part 3: Constructing Identities in the Okinawan, Nikkei, and Permanent Resident Diasporas.
31864Japanese garden 2
Providing images about garden, such as: a celebration of Japanese garden, hedges and ground cover for your garden
31865Japanese gardens
Includes two parts: Introduce to Japanese gardens, such as: Katsura Imperial villa Kyoto, Koishikawa Korakuen garden Tokyo,...; and the water garden guide to designing, constructing and planting water features .
31866Japanese Gardens: tranquility, simplicity, harmony
At the heart of a Japanese garden is harmony with nature. More than simply a landscape of trees and flowering shrubs, a Japanese garden provides a place of serenity and rest, filled with peaceful spots that lend themselves to meditation and contemplation. Japanese Gardens celebrates and illustrates this ideal, showcasing the exquisite natural beauty of more than 20 quintessentially Japanese gardens-big and small, urban and rural, traditional and contemporary. The expert author-and-photographer team behind this book excels at capturing and explaining the essential elements and techniques that distinguish Japanese gardens from those of other countries. The featured sites range from large feudal period gardens, temple gardens and private and countryside gardens to mountain flower gardens, tea gardens and gardens devoted to miniature bonsai.
31867Japanese interiors
Contents: Introduction. Aspirational. Functional. Historic & iconic.
31868Japanese women and sport : beyond baseball and sumo
Kietlinski locates the discussion of Japanese women in sport within a larger East Asian context and considers the socio-economic position and history of modern Japan. Reaching from the early 20th century to the present day, Kietlinski traces the progression of Japanese women's participation in sport from the first female school for physical education and the foundations of competitive sport through to their growing presence in the Olympics and international sport.
31869Japan's ASEAN policy : in search of proactive multilateralism
The central puzzle in the study of Japanese foreign policy has been why Japan has continued to play a passive role in international affairs, despite its impressive economic and political power. Challenging this central puzzle, the core argument of this study is to present an alternative path for the study of Japanese foreign policy. In fact, in recent years Japanese foreign policy has become less dependent on the United States, more strategic towards Asia, and more energetic towards internati ..
31870Japan's imperial underworlds : intimate encounters at the borders of empire
This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a female pirate. These stories reveal the shared experiences of the border populations of Japan and China and show how they fundamentally shaped the territorial boundaries that defined Japan's imperial world and continue to inform present-day views of China. From Meiji-era treaty ports to the Taiwan Strait, South China, and French Indochina, the movements of people in marginal locations not only destabilized the state's policing of geographical borders and social boundaries, but also stimulated fantasies of furthering imperial power.