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"When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak...
2) After dark
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Two sisters--Eri, a fashion model sleeping her way to oblivion, and Mari, a young student--form the center of a novel that documents a series of encounters in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn.
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This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with anime's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies. The contributors dismantle the distinction between "high"...
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Before the coffee gets cold volume 4
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2023.
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The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series. The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks, and there are rules to follow. In the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's sensational Before...
5) 1Q84
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An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
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[1990]
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1streaming video file (41 min.) : sound, color.
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Japan Enters the World SceneThe West was stupefied when faraway Japan attacked and beat the fleet of the Tsar. This program traces the opening of Japan after 250 years of isolation; the modernist attitudes of the Meiji Emperor; Japan's declaration of war on China in 1894; the Treaty of Shimonosaki, which granted Japan huge reparations, the island of Formosa, Port Arthur in Manchuria, and a kind of protectorate in Korea; and the resulting alliance...
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2011
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xxi, 325 p.
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Tokyo is Japan's largest city and its capital. It is also one of the largest cities in the world and a major center of global economic influence. The origins of human settlement in what is today Tokyo are lost in prehistory. The city started out quite modestly as a small castle town of Edo in 1457, then the center of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603-1868, the rapidly modernizing and Westernizing capital of the nation during the Meiji Period (1868-1912),...
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[2007]
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1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
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In this classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series, viewers will travel to Japan, which has, once again, become the key to the fate of the Far East. The cameras focus on the United States Army in Japan, which has come to know Japan well in recent years-in war, in occupation, and finally, in partnership. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows how in the record of that relationship there can...
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2017.
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1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged))
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This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.
First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a divine sovereign. It was the terminus of the Silk Road,...
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2009
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xxiii, 6, 346 p., [32] p. of plates : col. ill., maps.
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"In this first major study of the region in English, the author examines the key themes of Kyushu's history from earliest times - the cultural interaction with the continental mainland, settlement, location and infrastructure as well as trade and commerce, - arguing that it was the principal stepping-stone in terms of Japan's cultural, social and economic advance through history up to the present day."--Publisher's description.
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[2012], c2005
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1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col.
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This Pilot Guides episode catches Ian Wright's experience in the heart of Tokyo, the world's most extraordinary capital. Ian encounters the spiritual aspects of the peace-loving Buddhist Senso-Ji temple and the sword fighting and Bushido philosophy of the Samurai warriors. He explores Odaiba's technology centers, the Tokyo fashion scene, and the 11,000 foot Mount Fuji. Ian makes time to join two harvest festivals, during which he tries the traditional...
15) Miso Hungry
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[2015]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr. 30 min., 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
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Award-winning comedian and fast-food junkie Craig Anderson doesn't have much time for healthy living. But at double his recommended weight and with a biological age of 64 at the age of 38, he may just not have much time, period. Can a nation known for its longevity save Craig from death by pizza? This fresh and funny documentary follows Craig on an action-packed culinary voyage of discovery to Japan, as he learns a whole new approach to food and fulfillment....
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[2012], c2010
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1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col.
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When Tomoko finds some messages for a Mr. Smith on a lost mobile phone, she finds herself on an "Alice in Wonderland" journey through Tokyo's boulevards and back alleys. From the tyranny of symmetry in soaring office blocks to buildings that look like spaceships, this creative documentary reveals the city's soul. And as Tomoko watches the sun rising over buildings ranging from imperial to space-age styling, from the height of function to the height...
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Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customer that handle them. But like those customers and staff, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show signs of innumerable extravagancies, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart. Hitomi, the inexperiences young woman who works the register, will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance...
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The emergence of Japan as a political and economic global power has been one of the most remarkable success stories of modern history. This introduction offers an overview of two thousand years of Japanese history. This edition includes photographs and maps. Highlighting key historical events, the author also marks cultural, artistic, and religious milestones. Chronologies at the end of each chapter, as well as a detailed glossary, offer additional...
19) Crisis without end: the medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe
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2014.
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"On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts assembled at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine. A project of the Helen Caldicott Foundation and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, this gathering was a response to widespread concerns that the media and policy makers had been far too eager to move past what are...
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[2012], c2009
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1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col.
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It was a passion for global exploration that drove Albert Kahn to create a vast image archive, but he also felt a deep attachment to one country in particular - Japan. Although Kahn's skills as a financier gave him high-level connections there, he also held the Japanese people and their culture in high esteem. This program tells the story of the Kahn archive in the context of his personal, financial, and intellectual relationship with Japan. Along...





