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The Us-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy

Japanese Perspective

By: Kazuo Yagami

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The Us-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy

Japanese Perspective

By: Kazuo Yagami

The book examines how the United States and Japan—despite their sharp differences in cultural, historical, and geographical backgrounds—established a bilateral and clear linkage with each other by exploring their encounters with one another over more than one-and-a-half centuries with close focus on culture and diplomacy. The author desires that this examination contributes to an establishment of a better understanding of the relationship between the two nations, which aims to clarify stereotyped ideas and misunderstandings that from time to time can lead two nations to a confrontation against each other. Moreover, this study sheds new light on determining twenty-first century relations between the United States and Japan and putting an end to the nearly three-decades-long uncertainty in their relationship.

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Balboa Press

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1504395794

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Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941

A Critical Appraisal of the Three-Time Prime Minister

By: Kazuo Yagami

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Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941

A Critical Appraisal of the Three-Time Prime Minister

By: Kazuo Yagami

The blame for a country's mistakes often falls on its leaders. In some cases, however, a leader's greatest mistake is to promote the mistaken goals of his people. Was this the case in World War II Japan? This book considers that question in the story of Konoe Fumimaro, who served as Japan's prime minister during one of the most difficult periods of the country's history. This historical biography is a balanced account of Konoe and his service as prime minister before and during World War II. Governing from 1937 to 1941, Konoe played a key role in the struggle to develop Japanese foreign policy. Beginning with Konoe's education and political training, the author then explores the general mood of 1930s Japan and traces Konoe's rise through the political ranks, including his first term as prime minister, his decision to step down, and his eventual comeback. Especially emphasized is how the man himself affected this period of Japanese history. In his relentless work regarding Japanese-American diplomacy, he attempted to change the destructive course on which Japan was bent. Defeated in essence by his own military and its growing autonomy, Konoe nevertheless took the Japanese defeat to heart. The final chapter examines Konoe's war experience and its aftermath, which culminated in his suicide.

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McFarland

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0786422424

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9780786422425

Mythical Thinkings: What Can We Learn from Comparative Mythology?

By: Kazuo Matsumura

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Mythical Thinkings: What Can We Learn from Comparative Mythology?

By: Kazuo Matsumura

A collection of papers on comparative mythology in English by Kazuo Matsumura, a well-known professor of Japanese mythology at Wako University, Tokyo, Japan.

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Lulu.com

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1304772535

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9781304772534

The Us-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy

Japanese Perspective

By: Kazuo Yagami

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Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941

A Critical Appraisal of the Three-Time Prime Minister

By: Kazuo Yagami

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A Critical Appraisal of the Three-Time Prime Minister

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An Artist of the Floating World

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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An Artist of the Floating World

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

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Vintage

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0307829065

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9780307829061

Nocturnes

Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Nocturnes

Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available * In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood Hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme - the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships founder and youthful hopes recede. 'Each of these stories is heartbreaking in its own way, but some have moments of great comedy, and they all require a level of attention that, typically, Ishiguro's writing rewards.' Observer '[They] come up on you quietly, but then haunt you for days . These little pieces could only be the work of a great composer.' Evening Standard 'A fine and moving collection of stories, displaying his unique combination of the sad, the stoic and the consoling. It's about failure, but it dignifies failure, and with it, the human condition.' Margaret Drabble, Guardian

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Faber & Faber

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0571252621

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9780571252626

When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.

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Vintage

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0375412654

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9780375412653

A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

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Vintage

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067972267X

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9780679722670

The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro,Chris Rice

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The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro,Chris Rice

It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. 'The Remains of the Day' is a remarkable story: a man's exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.

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Longman

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1405880449

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9781405880442

Never Let Me Go

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Never Let Me Go

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

As a child, Kathy - now thirty-one years old - lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed - even comforted - by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well - of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood - and about their lives now.

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0307276473

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9780307276476

Klara and the Sun

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Klara and the Sun

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.

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057136487X

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Book's by Kazuo Yagami

The Us-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy

The Us-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy

Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941

Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941

Mythical Thinkings: What Can We Learn from Comparative Mythology?

Mythical Thinkings: What Can We Learn from Comparative Mythology?

The Us-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy

The Us-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy

Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941

Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1937-1941

An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Nocturnes

Nocturnes

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

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