Living in Japan

Proud Like A God1. Open Your Eyes 2. Maria 3. Rain 4. Lords Of The Boards 5. Crossing The Deadline 6. We Use The Pain 7. Never Born 8. Wash It Down...

Reducere. "For years my life had been a string of temporary work in factories and call centres or unemployed. Approaching 30 and disillusioned with life in G...

Reducere. Upon arrival in Japan, one inevitably undergoes culture shock. The Japanese way of life is so unique that it appears incomprehensible. Foreigners, ...

Whether it's a pristinely preserved traditional house or a cutting-edge apartment, the best Japanese homes share a love of cleverly designed spaces...

FIFTY SOUNDS is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, recounting her life as an outsider in Japan. Irreverent, humane, witty and wise, Fi...

Reducere. Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team--a slugge...

Reducere. A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a...

Reducere. Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an u...

English Nettles brings together poems Peter Robinson began writing on his return to England after many years living in Japan. Now redesigned and re...

Reducere. 1. Break The Line 2. Break The Line 3. Open Your Eyes 4. Big In Japan 5. Rain 6. No Speech 7. Innocent Greed 8. Living In A Lie 9. Dödel Up 10. Lor...

Reducere. With the longest healthy life spans in the world, Japanese people understand the art of living well. This beautiful book distills traditional Japan...

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Ze...

Reducere. Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travel...

Reducere. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-grow...

Reducere. In 1959 journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After mus...

How do teachers, who have chosen to settle down in one country, manage the difficulties of living and teaching English in that country? This book a...

Reducere. In this book, you can learn about the Japanese philosophy Ikigai and, more importantly, learn about how you can start living a joyful and fulfilled...

Reducere. The stories collected here were written over the past seven years for a monthly Japan Times column called The Living Past. They range from earliest...

Reducere. Nobody is aloof to the fact that we are currently living in a global village where everything from businesses, cultures, politics to food is interc...

DescriptionBrilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hear...

DescriptionThis major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate ...

Reducere. DescriptionRecollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of the nineteenth century, from a European's p...

Featuring 100 stunning colour photographs, Zen Landscapes explains how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surround...

Reducere. Researched and written by a professional linguist with decades of experience as a student of Japanese language, culture, and martial arts-including...

Reducere. DescriptionDiscover the ancient Japanese secret ways to see joy, meaning, and purpose in every single day of your life. Today only, get this bestse...

The original Japanese edition of The Art Of Discarding, first published in 2000, is said to have inspired a young Marie Kondo. An international bes...

Reducere. When Mika Kuramoto gave birth to her firstborn daughter, Seri, in a New York hospital thousands of miles away from her native country, the hospital...

This book looks at the origins of Hap and Ki as they are found in Hapkido. Going back to 660 B.C., the roots of the art are traced from ancient Kor...

Reducere. John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no pros...

Reducere. An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg. In 1611, the merchants of L...

Create your Japanese work of art with this new, comprehensive title on the intricate skill of Japanese netsuke carvings. Traditionally created for ...

Reducere. Great Lakes Book AwardsWhile growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern Ame...

Reducere. Description*UPDATED FOR 2018 - NOW WITH OVER 30% MORE CONTENT * Must-See Japan is your up-to-date and concise guide for discovering the best sights...

DescriptionJapanese gardens are found throughout the world today--their unique forms now considered a universal art form. This stunning Japanese ga...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers--a unique, indispensable guide...

A stunning and well-curated guidebook to Japan, packed with insider tips for design-minded travelers. Hello Sandwich Japan is for people who value ...

Reducere. The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems...

Reducere. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a histori...

Reducere. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a histori...

Reducere. Ahn E. Sook stood alone among thousands of kneeling people. Her bold defiance of the tyrannical demand to bow to pagan Japanese shrines condemned h...

Reducere. This book is an adaptation of a Japanese language non-fiction work about Canada's first Japanese-Canadian championship baseball team, the Vancouver...

Reducere. DescriptionZen koans, beginning some 1500 years ago, refer to stories or questions arising in encounters between monks and old Chinese and Japanese...

DescriptionA goblin with no body and a monster with no face.A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter.A spirit of the moon and a dragon king. T...

Reducere. Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day. In this book, famed author La...

Reducere. DescriptionBestselling cookbook writer Harumi Kurihara brings together authentic, Japanese home cooking that everyone can do.In Everyday Harumi, Ja...

DescriptionIvan Orkin is a self-described gaijin (guy-jin), a Japanese term that means "outsider." He has been hopelessly in love with the food of ...

Reducere. Please join the Facebook group Japanese Plaster CraftEarthen walls have always been a part of Japanese culture. Due to habits of aesthetic interpre...

Reducere. The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems...

Reducere. Kiwao Nomura is the leading experimental voice in contemporary Japanese poetry, who has published twenty-six volumes of verse since 1987. This tran...

Reducere. It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world histo...

Reducere. Lolas' House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino ``comfort women.`` During World War II more than 1, 000 Fili...

Reducere. DescriptionWatch your step.Do you have what it takes to explore the ruins of a once prosperous, now mysteriously abandoned shrine?Would you step in...

Three decades of the beloved Japanese artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures and moreYoshitomo Nara is among the most beloved Japanese artists of...

Reducere. Multiculturalism: United in diversity. A Romanian Perspective Irina Budrina not only knows what she writes and talks about, but she is, as they say...

DescriptionThe King of the Monsters rises again, bringing lots of other beloved Toho monsters too in one destructive saga When Godzilla appears off...

Reducere. **Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly** The Oldest Bird in the World Survives the Japanese Tsunami The oldest bird in the world, documented with b...

A powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it. "N.P." is the last collection of stories by a celebra...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism, highlighting the contributions a...

With nine victories, he holds the record for the most wins at the Le Mans 24 Hours -- and he has written motorsport history. Tom Kristensen: The Bo...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California deser...

96 breathtakingly stunning Japanese gardens you must visit in Kyoto Kyoto's gardens are among the city's many glories. They are beautiful, thought-...

Reducere. Live Your Best LifeAncient, time-tested wisdom: Okinawa, Japan is a tiny, tiny island south of the Japanese mainland where people live their life's...

Pursued by foreign Morph Rats who do not fear humans as living dieties, Saki and her friends have taken refuge with the odious creatures' domestic ...

Reducere. About the AuthorRae Chandran is a spiritual teacher, channel, author, and healer living in Tokyo, Japan. He teaches workshops throughout the Far Ea...

Embrace zero waste living with this collection of sustainable gift wrap solutions including furoshiki, the traditional Japanese technique of fabric...

Reducere. Flying the Dragon tells the story of two cousins in alternating chapters. American-born Skye is a good student and a star soccer player who never r...

A graphic novel version of the life of legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary samurai, is known throughout the world a...

Reducere. Enter the Marchenoir Library, a gallery of the most beautiful covers from the beloved series, Marchenoir. Unfortunately, the covers are all that's ...

Reducere. This book is the first to focus on the women who practised in the early days of Reiki. Some are well known while others are yet to be discovered. F...

DescriptionRenowned budo (martial arts) and ninja grandmaster Hatsumi explains how Japanese sword fighting embodies the essence of budo and the spi...