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Once and Forever

The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Once and Forever

The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa

By: Kenji Miyazawa

Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester’s selection and expert translation of Miyazawa’s short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent “Wildcat and the Acorns,” to the cautionary tale “The Restaurant of Many Orders,” to “The Earthgod and the Fox,” which starts out whimsically before taking a tragic turn. Miyazawa also had a deep connection to Japanese folklore and an intense love of the natural world. In “The Wild Pear,” what seem to be two slight nature sketches succeed in encapsulating some of the cruelty and compensations of life itself.

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New York Review of Books

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1681372614

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9781681372617

Kenji Miyazawa's Restaurant of Many Orders and Other Stories

The Manga Edition

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Kenji Miyazawa's Restaurant of Many Orders and Other Stories

The Manga Edition

By: Kenji Miyazawa

In the transcendent stories of Miyazawa, Earth teems with magic and wonder." —Publishers Weekly "A marvelous writer who deserves to be much better known in English." —Kirkus This charming manga collection presents three modern fables by one of Japan's most gifted authors, the poet and short story writer Kenji Miyazawa. Miyazawa is beloved in Japan, and increasingly abroad, for his masterful storytelling, poetic imagery, and powerful evocation of both the shadow and light of human nature. His world of sentient stars and enchanted forests, presented here in manga form, will appeal to imaginative readers of all ages. The Restaurant of Many Orders follows a pair of confident, self-centered young men on a hunting expedition. After entering a mysterious restaurant, the men are given peculiar orders such as to rub cream on their bodies — until they finally realize they themselves are about to become dinner for lurking beasts! The Wildcat and the Acorns is the story of a young boy invited to attend a trial where a wildcat presides over golden acorns disputing which acorn is the best one The Twin Stars brings to life the heavenly constellations, whose musical performances keep the stars twinkling at night. In the daytime, however, the harmony falls apart as the constellations squabble among themselves

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462925006

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9781462925001

Kenji Miyazawa's Restaurant of Many Orders and Other Stories

The Manga Edition

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Kenji Miyazawa's Restaurant of Many Orders and Other Stories

The Manga Edition

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov

By: Kenji Miyazawa

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories that focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice, and faith, which were near and dear to his heart. "The Nighthawk Star" follows a lowly bird as he struggles to transform himself into something greater, a constellation in the night sky; "Signal & Signal-less" depicts a pair of star-crossed train signals who dream of eloping to the moon; and "Night on the Galactic Railroad," Miyazawa's most famous work, tells the story of two boys as they journey upon a train that traverses the Milky Way, learning the true meaning of friendship, happiness, and life itself along the way.

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109

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SCB Distributors

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1935548999

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Miyazawa Kenji

Selections

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Miyazawa Kenji

Selections

By: Kenji Miyazawa

The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa’s work into English. Hiroaki Sato’s own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa’s poetry. His remarkable introduction considers the poet’s significance and suggests ways for contemporary readers to approach his work. It further places developments in Japanese poetry into a global context during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition the book features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O’Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yoshimasu Gozo, and Michael O’Brien.

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Univ of California Press

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0520939581

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9780520939585

Once and Forever

The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa

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New York Review of Books

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Milky Way Railroad

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Milky Way Railroad

By: Kenji Miyazawa

A tender, timeless fable about afterlife from Japan's best-loved children's writer.

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Stone Bridge Press

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1933330406

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Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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SCB Distributors

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Floating Stone

21 Thoughts of Kenji Miyazawa

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Floating Stone

21 Thoughts of Kenji Miyazawa

By: Kenji Miyazawa

Kenji Miyazawa was born in Iwate, japan in 1896 and died in 1933. He was a devoted Buddhist, poet, author, musician, painter, teacher, biologist, geologist, and farming consultant who prescribed fertilizers for local farmers even on his death bed with tuberculosis. The area was hit by record earthquakes and tsunamis on March 11th, 2011. However, such natural disasters also occurred in the years of his birth and death. -- from introduction.

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Irie Books

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1617203769

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The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy

By: Kenji Hayao

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The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy

By: Kenji Hayao

Despite the undeniable importance of Japan in world affairs, both politically and economically, the office of the Japanese prime minister has recieved far less attention from scholars than have the top political offices in other advanced industrialized democracies. This book is the first major systemic analysis of the Japanese prime minister's role and influence in the policy process.Kenji Hayao argues that the Japanese prime minister can play a major if not critical role in bringing about a change in policy. In Japan the prime minister's style is different from what is considered usual for parliamentary leaders: rather than being strong and assertive, he tends to be reactive. How did the role develop in this way? If he is not a major initiator of policy change, how and under what conditions can the prime minister make his impact felt? Finally, what are the consequences of this rather weak leadership?In answering these questions, Professor Hayao presents two case studies (educational reform and reform of the tax system) involving Nakasone Yasuhiro to see how he be became involved in the policy issues and how he affected the process. Hayao then examines a number of broad forces that seem important in explaining the prime minister's role in the policy process: how a leader is chosen; his relationships with other important actors in the political system - the political parties and the subgovernments; and the structure of his "inner" staff and advisors.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822971577

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9780822971573

Milky Way Railroad

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Milky Way Railroad

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A tender, timeless fable about afterlife from Japan's best-loved children's writer.

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The Boy of the Winds

By: Miyazawa Kenji,Roger Pulvers

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The Boy of the Winds

By: Miyazawa Kenji,Roger Pulvers

MIYAZAWA KENJI remains not only Japan's most popular and beloved writer of stories for children and adults but a prescient voice for this century on how we can survive and prevail over the most challenging conditions that we face on this planet. Roger Pulvers writes in his Introduction ... "Kenji's message is: It is easy to exclude others who are 'different' from your circle, but if you exclude others, you exclude yourself, because you are inextricably linked to them; it is easy to be unkind to others, but if you are unkind to others, you are unkind to yourself; it is very easy to kill, but if you kill another person, the person who dies within is yourself." "Destroy nature in any or all of its qualities and we destroy human goodness, compassion and love. No Japanese understood this more profoundly than Miyazawa Kenji, and the people of the world need to know that." In this new collection, acclaimed author, translator and film director Roger Pulvers presents, in masterful translations, some of Miyazawa Kenji's most well-known stories. In "The Boy of the Winds" the wind arrives in a village in the form of a boy, Matasaburo, bringing, with great compassion, a warning over the abuse of nature by humans. In "The Bears on Mt. Nametoko," the fate of the king of the mountains, Kojuro, becomes that of the bears he hunts. And in the exquisitely poignant "Barefeet of Light" two young brothers face the cruelest hardships ... and the message Kenji gives us is always one of devotion and love. In addition, there are stories here by other well-known Japanese authors, the final one being the beautiful tribute to the importance of water in our lives, Inoue Hisashi's "The Water Letters." All translations come with commentary that puts the works in their historical and social context. The Japan Times has written of an earlier anthology of his works translated by Roger Pulvers: "The reader can clearly feel Miyazawa's values and hopes for humanity across time....

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1913891208

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9781913891206

A History of Japanese Buddhism

By: Kenji Matsuo

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A History of Japanese Buddhism

By: Kenji Matsuo

This first major study in English on Japanese Buddhism by one of Japan’s most distinguished scholars in the field of Religious Studies is to be widely welcomed.The main focus of the work is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day.

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Global Oriental

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9004213317

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9789004213319

Japan’s Long Stagnation, Deflation, and Abenomics

Mechanisms and Lessons

By: Kenji Aramaki

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Japan’s Long Stagnation, Deflation, and Abenomics

Mechanisms and Lessons

By: Kenji Aramaki

This book examines the struggles of the Japanese economy over the last 30 years, analyzing in detail the formation of the huge economic bubble in the 1980s, its collapse at the beginning of the 1990s, and subsequent two decade long economic stagnation and chronic deflation, with the aim of identifying the mechanism of such processes and drawing lessons for future economic policy management. The book also assesses the comprehensive policy efforts called “Abenomics” under the current Abe administration. As Abe continues into a new term, this book will be of interest to Japan scholars, economists, and policymakers around the world, particularly in Asia.

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388

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Springer

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9811321760

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9789811321764

Light Driven Micromachines

By: George K. Knopf,Kenji Uchino

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Light Driven Micromachines

By: George K. Knopf,Kenji Uchino

In Light Driven Micromachines, the fundamental principles and unique characteristics of light driven material structures, simple mechanisms and integrated machines are explored. Very small light driven systems provide a number of interesting features and unique design opportunities because streams of photons deliver energy into the system and provide the control signal used to regulate the response of the micron sized device. Through innovative material design and clever component fabrication, these optically powered tiny machines can be created to perform mechanical work when exposed to varying light intensity, wavelength, phase, and/or polarization. The book begins with the scientific background necessary to understand the nature of light and how light can initiate physical movement by inducing material deformation or altering the surrounding environment to impose micro-forces on the actuating mechanisms. The impact of physical size on the performance of light driven mechanisms and machines is discussed, and the nature of light–material interactions is reviewed. These interactions enable very small objects and mechanical components to be trapped and manipulated by a focused light beam, or produce local temperature gradients that force certain materials to undergo shape transformation. Advanced phase transition gels, polymers, carbon-based films and piezoelectric ceramics that exhibit direct light-to-mechanical energy conversion are examined from the perspective of designing optically driven actuators and mechanical systems. The ability of light to create photothermal effects that drive microfluidic processes and initiate the phase transformation of temperature sensitive shape memory materials are also explored in the book. This compendium seeks to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers by presenting the fundamental principles of this emerging interdisciplinary technology and exploring how the properties of light can be exploited for microfluidic, microrobotic, biomedical and space applications.

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399

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CRC Press

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1351001264

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9781351001267

Competition Law Reform in Britain and Japan

Comparative Analysis of Policy Network

By: Kenji Suzuki

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Competition Law Reform in Britain and Japan

Comparative Analysis of Policy Network

By: Kenji Suzuki

As market competition replaces state regulation in many economic fields, competition policy has become an area of increasing significance. Against this background, Suzuki highlights the importance of the domestic political structure for competition policy. He does this through the comparative analysis of competition law reforms in Britain and Japan. He argues - controversially - that a country's domestic political structure should be considered a major factor in causing the reform of competition law, and rejects the established view that it is necessarily a result of changes in international economic and political conditions.

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Routledge

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1134520700

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9781134520701

New Advances in Histamine Research

By: Kenji Tasaka

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New Advances in Histamine Research

By: Kenji Tasaka

Recent research has given great insight into the physiological and pharmaceutical effects of histamine on the central nervous system and especially on the brain. This volume focuses on these many new findings, including the role of brain histamine in the arousal system, learning, and memory. Also featured are the mechanisms of histamine release in bone marrow and mast cells and the role of histamine in neutrophil differentiation. These are analyzed using the most up-to-date techniques of molecular pharmacology and refined immunoelectroscopy. In addition, the pharmacological profiles of newly developed H1 antagonists are described, making this book invaluable to those who want to understand the very latest advances in histamine research.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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4431682635

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9784431682639

Night of the Milky Way Railway

By: Kenji Miyazawa

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Night of the Milky Way Railway

By: Kenji Miyazawa

Giovanni and his friend Campanella, who is dead from drowning, travel on a celestial railway which is a ferry of souls journeying to the afterlife.

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204

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M.E. Sharpe

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0873328205

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9780873328203

The Night Hawk Star

By: Kenji Miyazawa,Helen Smith

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The Night Hawk Star

By: Kenji Miyazawa,Helen Smith

Children's story about a bird who is laughed at by others because he is different. Adapted by Helen Smith from the original by Kenji Miyazawa, and illustrated by the winner of the 1987 Children's Book Council Picture Book of the Year Award.

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