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201 Japanese Verbs Fully Described in All Inflections Moods, Aspects, and Formality Levels,by Roland A. LangeISBN 0812003918 (0-8120-0391-8)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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99 More Unuseless Japanese Inventionsby Kenji Kawakami, Dan PapiaISBN 0393317439 (0-393-31743-9)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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The Anatomy of Dependenceby Takeo Doi, John BesterISBN 0870114948 (0-87011-494-8)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Ark Sakuraby Kobo Abe, Juliet Winters CarpenterISBN 0679721614 (0-679-72161-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Authentic Recipes From Japanby Walter Wagner, Takayuki Kosaki, Heinz Von Holzen, Kathleen MorikawaISBN 0794602096 (0-7946-0209-6)
Hardcover, Periplus Editions
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The Book of Kimonoby Norio YamanakaISBN 0870117858 (0-87011-785-8)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Cloud Of Sparrowsby Takashi MatsuokaISBN 0385338503 (0-385-33850-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cloud Of Sparrows'Book summary:Following in the substantial footsteps of filmmaker Akiro Kurosawa and Shogun author James Clavell is Takashi Matsuoka, whose action-packed debut novel, Cloud of Sparrows, unfolds as the age of the samurai warrior starts to wane. The year is 1861, and Lord Genji of Akaoka, last in line of the Okamichi clan, welcomes missionaries Emily, Matthew, and Zephaniah to Japan. Cut off from the West for more than 2,000 years, Japan is as completely unprepared for these outsiders as the missionaries are for geishas and honor killings. Genji, his geisha love Heiko, and the missionaries suddenly find themselves in the middle of several nefarious plots to overthrow the Okamichi leader from as far away as the shogun's palace and as close as Genji's own henchmen. Genji and his visitors journey together across treacherous terrain to seek refuge at the faraway Cloud of Sparrows palace. Although it's a rip-roaring yarn full of ambushes, swordfights, cross-cultural friction, love, and prophetic visions, the book does read a bit like a screenplay, cutting quickly from one scene to another. But the frequent shifts in the story's tempo succeed in making the novel all the more vivid, allowing simultaneous action and contemplation to deepen the story and its inhabitants. --Emily Russin [via]
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Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook For College Studentsby Eriko SatoISBN 0804833788 (0-8048-3378-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Contemporary Japanese:A Textbook for College Students is designed for beginning students of the Japanese language at the university level. It is designed for use in the classroom as well as for self-study. Each lesson is based on a single communicative objective and makes much use of the discovery approach (guess and try)so that students learn through problem-solving and participation as opposed to being taught by rote. Its unique innovative and effective way of teaching through observing real-life conversations takes a fun approach to learning the language that will motivate independent and non-vocational learners.
Contemporary Japanese Workbook Volume 1 serves as a supplementary material for Contemporary Japanese: A Textbook for College Students Volume 1, as well as a self-sufficient comprehensive workbook for practicing and reviewing Japanese. Focusing on four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing), it contains 13 chapters of worksheets and activities on vocabulary and grammar usage, and conversations in the context of formal and informal college daily life, business and traveling. An audio CD containing drills, dialogues, and listening comprehensions for most activities accompanies the workbook. [via]
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Contemporary Japanese Literatureby Howard HibbettISBN 0887274366 (0-88727-436-6)
Softcover, Cheng & Tsui Co
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Contemporary Japanese Literature : An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing since 1945by Hibbett, Howard S., Jr.ISBN 0394733622 (0-394-73362-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Death in Midsummerby Pseud, Mishima, YukioISBN 0811201171 (0-8112-0117-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Easy Kanji: A Basic Guide to Writing Japanese Charactersby Fujihiko Kaneda, Takuya Dan, Rika Sagano, Masaya KatayamaISBN 0844283746 (0-8442-8374-6)
Softcover, Ntc Pub Group
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Easy Katakana: How to Read and Write English Words Used in Japaneseby Tina Wells, Aoi TokouchiISBN 0844285196 (0-8442-8519-6)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co Trade
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English in Japanese: A Selection of Useful Loanwordsby Akira MiuraISBN 0834804212 (0-8348-0421-2)
Softcover, Weatherhill
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Exotic Japanese Storiesby Ryunosuke AkutagawaISBN 0871400693 (0-87140-069-3)
Hardcover, Liveright
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Fingertip Japanese: Enjoy Japan As the Japanese Doby Walter Long, Kennichi ShimonishiISBN 0834802708 (0-8348-0270-8)
Softcover, Weatherhill
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Foreign Studiesby Shusaku EndoISBN 0720612268 (0-7206-1226-8)
Softcover, Peter Owen Ltd
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Fresh Fruitsby Schoichi Aoki, Shoichi AokiISBN 0714845108 (0-7148-4510-8)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Fruitsby Shoichi AokiISBN 0714840831 (0-7148-4083-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits'Book summary:If you ever wondered where the catwalk got its claws, then the portraits gathered in photographer Shoichi Aoki's book Fruits, from the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo, point the way to an extraordinarily imaginative and invariably stunning glut of mongrel fashion heists. A best-of collection from the fanzine of the same name, and published for the first time outside Japan, Fruits keeps its style clean: front-on, razor-sharp images, ranging from the deadpan to the manic, of the sharpest collages of sartorial influence that, usually, little money can buy. From off the peg to off the wall, kitsch to bitch, each person bears a combination and philosophy as distinctive as DNA. All shades of aesthetic are raided, with exquisite, scrupulous attention to detail. Punk is a favorite, as is, appropriately, Vivienne Westwood, alongside Milk and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and the occasional Comme des Garçons. Many of the outfits, though, are second-hand or self-assembly, such as a skirt drooping petals of men's silk ties, Wa-mono, when tradition Japanese clothes are topped with, say, an authentic bowler hat, EGL (elegant gothic Lolita), and a swathe of tartans, pinks, and turquoises. The most malleable feature, unsurprisingly, is hair, with dreadlocks, mohicans, back-combing, and crops dyed an irradiated spectrum. While the eye is drawn, obediently, to the mannequins, the background is often worth a look, either for the vending machines against which a number are shot, or the ubiquitous Gap store and bags, a constant reminder of the global mass market.
One enterprising man wears a genuine British paperboy's delivery bag, and, to pick but one profile, Princess, 18, is trying to be a doll and is currently preoccupied with body organs. Mmm. All the subjects are asked the source of their clothes, as well as their "point of fashion" and "current obsession." The scope for sociopsychological discussion is vast, particularly with the preponderance of infantilization, through dolls, bonnets, pop socks, and Barbie, but this is a joyous documentation of the innovative, celebrating the inspirational polytheism of street fashion, captured with provocative, political zeal. Best let the street cats prowl. --David Vincent [via]
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The Great Mirror of Male Loveby Ihara SaikakuISBN 0804718954 (0-8047-1895-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Guide to Writing Kanji and Kana, Book 2: A Self-Study Workbook for Learning Japanese Charactersby Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Mark SpahnISBN 0804816867 (0-8048-1686-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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A Haiku Journey: Basho's "The Narrow Road to the Far North" and Selected Haikuby Matsu Basho, Dorothy Britton, Dennis StockISBN 0870114239 (0-87011-423-9)
Softcover, Kodansha America, Incorporated
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Heike Storyby Eiji Yoshikawa, Kenkichi Sugimoto, Fuki Wooyenaka UramatsuISBN 0804833184 (0-8048-3318-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heike Story'Book summary:Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while the armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and commoner alike. In despair, the Emperor called upon the Heike and Genji clans to quell civil disturbances. Although the clans succeeded, they quarreled over the spoils of war and plunged the country into a century of warfare.This novel describes the rise to power of Kiyomori of the Heike clan during this turbulent time. From a youth sunk in poverty, Kiyomori eventually rose to become the Emperor's Chief Councillor. Although he was a gentle, enlightened man, he left a trail of bloodshed and ruin in his wake. The strange twists of Kiyomori's fate are the core of this epic novel.The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Its exotic atmosphere, narrative power, pageantry, and poetry will enthrall English readers and provide an entertaining introduction to an important source of Japanese culture.[via] 
A History of Japanese Literature: The Archaic and Ancient Agesby Jinichi Konishi, Earl Roy MinerISBN 0691065926 (0-691-06592-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A History of Japanese Literature: The Early Middle Agesby Jinichi KonishiISBN 0691101779 (0-691-10177-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A History of Japanese Literature Vol. III: The High Middle Agesby Jin'ichi Konishi, Earl Miner, Aileen Gatteu, Mark A. HarbisonISBN 0691066566 (0-691-06656-6)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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In Search of a Distant Voiceby Michael Emmerich, Taichi YamadaISBN 0571229719 (0-571-22971-9)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Introduction to Japanese Court Poetryby Earl MinerISBN 0804706360 (0-8047-0636-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Japanese Artby Joan Stanley-BakerISBN 0500203261 (0-500-20326-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Japanese Design Motifs; 4260 Illustrations of Heraldic Crests: 4260 Illustrations of Heraldic Crestsby MatsuyaISBN 0486228746 (0-486-22874-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Japanese for Busy People IIby Association for Japanese Language TeachingISBN 0870115995 (0-87011-599-5)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Japanese for Everyone: A Functional Approach to Daily Communicationsby Nagara SusumuISBN 0870408534 (0-87040-853-4)
Softcover, Japan Pubn Trading Co
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Japanese Kana Workbookby P. G. O'NeillISBN 0834803372 (0-8348-0337-2)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Japanese Slang: Uncensoredby Peter ConstantineISBN 0804819424 (0-8048-1942-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Japanese Today: Change and Continuityby Edwin Oldfather ReischauerISBN 0674471822 (0-674-47182-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity'Book summary:With the two-thousand-year history of the Japanese experience as his foundation, Edwin O. Reischauer brings us an incomparable description of Japan today in all its complexity and uniqueness, both material and spiritual. His description and analysis present us with the paradox that is present-day Japan: thoroughly international, depending for its livelihood almost entirely on foreign trade, its products coveted everywhere--yet not entirely liked or trusted, still feared for its past military adventurism and for its current economic aggressiveness.
Reischauer begins with the rich heritage of the island nation, identifying incidents and trends that have significantly affected Japan's modern development. Much of the geographic and historical material on Japan's earlier years is drawn from his renowned study The Japanese, but the present book deepens and broadens that earlier interpretation: our knowledge of Japan has increased enormously in the intervening decade and our attitudes have become more ambivalent, while Japan too has changed, often not so subtly.
Moving to contemporary Japanese society, Reischauer explores both the constants in Japanese life and the aspects that are rapidly changing. In the section on government and politics he gives pithy descriptions of the formal workings of the various organs of government and the decision-making process, as well as the most contentious issues in Japanese life-pollution, nuclear power, organized labor-and the elusive matter of political style.
In what will become classic statements on business management and organization, Reischauer sketches the early background of trade and commerce in Japan, contrasts the struggling prewar economy with today's assertive manufacturing, and brilliantly characterizes the remarkable postwar economic miracle of Japanese heavy industry, consumer product development, and money management. In a final section, "Japan and the World' he attempts to explain to skeptical Weste [via]
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The Japanese Today: Change and Continuityby Marius B. Jansen, Edwin Oldfather ReischauerISBN 0674471849 (0-674-47184-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Japanese Touch for Your Homeby Koji YagiISBN 087011526X (0-87011-526-X)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Japanese Words and Their Usesby Akira MiuraISBN 0804816395 (0-8048-1639-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Kanji ABCby Andrew DykstraISBN 0913232378 (0-913232-37-8)
Hardcover, W. Kaufmann
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Kanji ABC: A Systematic Approach to Japanese Charactersby Andreas Foerster, Naoko TamuraISBN 0804819572 (0-8048-1957-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Kodansha Japanese-English Dictionaryby Shigehira NaritaISBN 0870116711 (0-87011-671-1)
Softcover, Kodansha America, Incorporated
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Let's Learn Japanese Picture Dictionaryby Marlene Goodman, Passport BooksISBN 0844284947 (0-8442-8494-7)
Hardcover, Natl Textbook Co
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Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writingsby Ihara SaikakuISBN 0811201872 (0-8112-0187-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Living Language Common Usage Dictionaryby Ichiro Shirato, Ralph William WeimanISBN 0517558785 (0-517-55878-5)
Softcover, Crown Publishers
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Make Your Own Japanese Clothes: Patterns and Ideas for Modern Wearby John MarshallISBN 087011865X (0-87011-865-X)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Make Your Own Japanese Clothes: Patterns and Ideas for Modern Wear'Book summary:Classical elegance. Loose-fitting comfort. Versatility. Functional design. These are just some of the reasons why traditional Japanese clothes have captured the imagination of modern fashion designers and stylish dressers around the world.
Making Japanese clothes is surprisingly simple. Patterns consist of virtually all straight lines, and the non-body-conforming shapes require no darts, buttonholes, or zippers.
Here, in this creative sourcebook, is all the information you need to sew authentic Japanese clothes or to design your own Japan-inspired fashions:
· Step-by-step instructions for making 14 select traditional garments, from the luxurious wedding rove and the classic kimono to the informal hanten jacket and practical field pants
· Detailed patterns that can be adjusted to fit any size
· An introduction to the basic building blockssleeve shapes, collars, hems, linings, and paddingso creative sewers can design their own fashions
· Over 40 sketches with many more suggestions for modern variations on the classic garments
· A choice of authentic Japanese techniques or simplified methods that achieve the same look
· How to use any width fabric, whether narrow Japanese fabric or standard Western widths
· Sources of Japanese fabric and sewing accessories
· Care and storage guidelines
· Fabric suggestions, ideas for creative wear, historical information, and much more! [via]More editions of Make Your Own Japanese Clothes: Patterns and Ideas for Modern Wear:
Martin's Pocket Dictionary : English-Japanese - Japanese-Englishby Samuel E. MartinISBN 0804815887 (0-8048-1588-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Publishing
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Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthologyby Donald KeeneISBN 0802150950 (0-8021-5095-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Nihongo Pera Pera : A User's Guide to Japanese Onomatopoeiaby Susan MillingtonISBN 0804818908 (0-8048-1890-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Publishing
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No Longer Humanby Osamu DazaiISBN 0811204812 (0-8112-0481-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Ntc's Dictionary of Japan's Cultural Code Wordsby Boye Lafayettede MenteISBN 0844283150 (0-8442-8315-0)
Softcover, Ntc Pub Group
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Oriental Cook Bookby Sunset BooksISBN 0376025344 (0-376-02534-4)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Palm-Of-The-Hand Storiesby Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop, J. Martin HolmanISBN 0374530491 (0-374-53049-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, Yasunari Kawabata is perhaps best known in the United States for his deeply incisive, marvelously lyrical novel Snow Country. But according to Kawabata himself, the essence of his art was to be found in a series of short stories-which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"-written over the entire span of his career. He began experimenting with the form in 1923 and returned to it often. In fact, his final work was a "palm-sized" reduction of Snow Country, written not long before his suicide in 1972. Dreamlike, intensely atmospheric, at times autobiographical and at others fantastical, these stories reflect Kawabata's abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. In them we find loneliness, love, the passage of time, and death. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories captures the astonishing range and complexity of one of the century's greatest literary talents.More editions of Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories:
Post-Structuralist Geography: A Critical Introductionby Jon MurdochISBN 0761974245 (0-7619-7424-5)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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The Practical Guide to Japanese Signsby Tae MoriyamaISBN 0870117912 (0-87011-791-2)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Practical Guide to Japanese Signs : Especially for Newcomersby Tae MoriyamaISBN 0870117904 (0-87011-790-4)
Softcover, Kodansha America, Incorporated
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Ranma 1/2, Volume 8by Rumiko TakahashiISBN 0613509862 (0-613-50986-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Remembering the Katakanaby James W. Heisig, Helmut Morsbach, Kazue KurebayashiISBN 0870408607 (0-87040-860-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Rising Sunby Michael CrichtonISBN 0394589424 (0-394-58942-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby Eleanor Coerr, Ronald HimlerISBN 0399237992 (0-399-23799-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes: ISBN 0440774659 (0-440-77465-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes: ISBN 0698119002 (0-698-11900-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes: ISBN 0399205209 (0-399-20520-9)
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby Ronald Himler, Eleanor CoerrISBN 0698118022 (0-698-11802-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Sea and Poisonby Shusaku Endo, Michael GallagherISBN 0811211983 (0-8112-1198-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Secrets of the Samurai: A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japanby Oscar Ratti, Adele WestbrookISBN 0804816840 (0-8048-1684-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japanby Oscar RattiISBN 0785810730 (0-7858-1073-0)
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The Setting Sunby Osamu Dazai, Donald KeeneISBN 0811200329 (0-8112-0032-9)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Shinjuby Laura Joh RowlandISBN 0679434224 (0-679-43422-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Somersaultby Kenzaburo Oe, Philip GabrielISBN 0802140459 (0-8021-4045-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Somersault'Book summary:Writing a novel after having won a Nobel Prize for Literature must be even more daunting than trying to follow a brilliant, bestselling debut. In Somersault (the title refers to an abrupt, public renunciation of the past), Kenzaburo Oe has himself leapt in a new direction, rolling away from the slim, semi-autobiographical novel that garnered the 1994 Nobel Prize (A Personal Matter) and toward this lengthy, involved account of a Japanese religious movement. Although it opens with the perky and almost picaresque accidental deflowering of a young ballerina with an architectural model, Somersault is no laugh riot. Oe's slow, deliberate pace sets the tone for an unusual exploration of faith, spiritual searching, group dynamics, and exploitation. His lavish, sometimes indiscriminate use of detail can be maddening, but it also lends itself to his sobering subject matter, as well as to some of the most beautiful, realistic sex scenes a reader is likely to encounter. --Regina Marler [via]
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Sunset Oriental Cook BookISBN 037602531X (0-376-02531-X)
Hardcover, Lane Books
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Totto-Chanby Tetsuko KuroyanagiISBN 0870116959 (0-87011-695-9)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Totto-Chan'Book summary:This review is from: Totto-Chan (Paperback) Also subtitled "The Little Girl At the Window," this is a major Japanese best seller. Encompasses the child's view of what education should be, so has a deeper meaning for educators, parents, and even younger readers with a broad understanding. Highly recommended. [via]
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Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Windowby Chihiru Kuroyanagi, Dorothy BrittonISBN 0870115375 (0-87011-537-5)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Tuttle Kanji Cards IIby Alexander KaskISBN 0804820902 (0-8048-2090-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Zakennayo!: The Real Japanese You Were Never Taught in Schoolby Philipj Cunningham, Kim Wilson Eversz, Kim Wilson BrandtISBN 0452275067 (0-452-27506-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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2001 Japanese and English Idiomsby Carol Akiyama, Nobuo AkiyamaISBN 0812094336 (0-8120-9433-6)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '2001 Japanese and English Idioms'Book summary:This edition is two books in one. The first part, intended for those whose first language is English, presents Japanese idioms with their meanings translated into literal and idiomatic English. All entries and sample sentences are written in phonetic spelling (Romaji), then in Japanese characters, and finally in English. The second part is for those whose first language is Japanese. [via]
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Contemporary Japanese: An Introductory Textbook For College Studentsby Eriko SatoISBN 080483377X (0-8048-3377-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Easy Japanese Crossword Puzzles: Using Kanaby Rita LampkinISBN 0844283452 (0-8442-8345-2)
Softcover, Passport Books
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Essential Japanese: An Introduction to the Standard Colloquial Languageby Samuel E. MartinISBN 0804818622 (0-8048-1862-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Publishing
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Kanji Cardsby Alexander Kask, Glen McCabeISBN 0804833974 (0-8048-3397-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kanji Cards'Book summary:This is a thoroughly revised edition of the successful 1995 product. The 448 kanji in this set are those prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education for the first three grades of school. Tuttle Flash Cards is a comprehensive series of flash cards designed to help travelers and beginning learners of Asian languages. The series will include Kanji Cards Vol II, Kana Cards, Japanese in a Flash I and II vocabulary-building cards, as well as parallel sets of flash cards for Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese.
* Contains 448 flash cards featuring the most common Japanese Kanji words and phrases used in everyday speech and writing.
* Provides related words, phrases, and expressions for each main word.
* Lists radicals and stroke orders for writing each character as well as romanized pronunciations for both native and Chinese-origin readings.
* Indexes allow you to sort and use the cards in various ways. [via]
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