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Strange But True Stories From Japan
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Author : Jack Seward
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Strange But True Stories From Japan written by Jack Seward and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Literary Collections categories.
Strange but True Stories from Japan is a fascinating collection of vignettes, ranging from historical to the personal. Here you will be exposed to the goings-on of Americans serving time in Japanese prisons and the many who claimed the identity of Tokyo Rose. And learn about the bizarre habits of the eels that roam the Chikugo River. In this eclectic and, well, strange, book you'll relive-from a distance-Kamakura's hara-kiri bloodshed and discover the surprising fate of the armless geisha, Tsuma-kichi. Seward also weaves touching memoir pieces between chapters that recount hilarious instances of fractured English and shocking-to-the-average-American Japanese cuisine. Written with an eye and ear for the theatrical and for the rhythm of Japanese life, this delightful but serious romp through modern Japan brings Seward's wide and varied cultural and military background to center stage.
Japanese Ghost Stories
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Author : Catrien Ross
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2011-08-30
Japanese Ghost Stories written by Catrien Ross and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with Fiction categories.
"A Best Book of 2009" —The Japan Times Japanese Ghost Stories, formerly published under the title Supernatural and Mysterious Japan, is a collection of the eerie and terrifying from around Japan. This book opens a window into the hidden aspects of the Japanese world of the paranormal, a place where trees grow human hair, rocks weep and there's even a graveyard where Jesus is reputed to have been buried. Covering ancient and modern times, Japanese Ghost Stories offers not only good, old-fashioned scary stories, but some special insights into Japanese culture and psychology. Japanese ghost stories include: In Search of the Supernatural Psychic Stirrings New Forays into the Mystic Strange but True Modern-Day Hauntings Scenes of Ghosts and Demons Edo-Era Tales
Kwaidan
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2006-07-28
Kwaidan written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-28 with Fiction categories.
From America's great interpreter of all things Japanese — 20 supernatural tales teeming with undead samurais, man-eating goblins and other terrifying demons. Includes 22 illustrations.
Strange Tales From Japan
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Strange Tales From Japan written by and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Fiction categories.
Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories! Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. 32 pages of traditional full-color images of these creatures, who have inhabited the Japanese imagination for centuries, bring the stories to life. The captivating tales in this volume include: The Vengeance of Oiwa--The terrifying spirit of a woman murdered by her husband who seeks retribution from beyond the grave The Curse of Okiku--A servant girl is murdered by her master and curses his family, with gruesome results The Snow Woman--A man is saved by a mysterious woman who swears him to secrecy Tales of the Kappa--Strange human-like sprites with green, scaly skin who live in water and are known to pull children and animals to their deaths And many, many more! Renowned translator William Scott Wilson explains the role these stories play in local Japanese culture and folklore, and their importance to understanding the Japanese psyche. Readers will learn which particular region, city, mountain or temple the stories originate from--in case you're brave enough to visit these haunts yourself!
Kwaidan
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2020-04-07
Kwaidan written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Fiction categories.
A classic book of ghost stories from one of the world’s leading nineteenth-century writers, the author of In Ghostly Japan and Japanese Fairy Tales. Published just months before Lafcadio Hearn’s death in 1904, Kwaidan features several stories and a brief nonfiction study on insects: butterflies, mosquitoes, and ants. The tales included are reworkings of both written and oral Japanese traditions, including folk tales, legends, and superstitions. “At age thirty-nine, Hearn travelled on a magazine assignment to Japan, and never came back. At a moment when that country, under Emperor Meiji, was weathering the shock and upheaval of forced economic modernization, Hearn fell deeply in love with the nation’s past. He wrote fourteen books on all manner of Japanese subjects but was especially infatuated with the customs and culture preserved in Japanese folktales—particularly the ghost-story genre known as kaidan. . . . He died in 1904, and, by the time his ‘Japanese tales’ were translated into Japanese, in the nineteen-twenties, the country’s transformation was so complete that Hearn was hailed as a kind of guardian of tradition; his kaidan collections are still part of the curriculum in many Japanese schools.” —The New Yorker
Strange But True Stories From Japan
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Author : Jack Seward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-09
Strange But True Stories From Japan written by Jack Seward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09 with Japan categories.
Big In Japan
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Author : M. Thomas Gammarino
language : en
Publisher: Chin Music Press Inc.
Release Date : 2015-11-09
Big In Japan written by M. Thomas Gammarino and has been published by Chin Music Press Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-09 with Fiction categories.
“From Susie Wong to Madame Butterfly to Miss Saigon: you might think that we've had enough of American men adventuring, scoring, and coming undone in the Far East. But you'd be wrong. Gammarino's Big in Japan is a shrewd and lively book, sharp-eyed and unsparing in its account of a young American's good and very bad moments overseas. The writing is wired and the ultimate judgement is merciless. It's seductive and it's devastating.” —PF Kluge, author of Eddie and the Cruisers and Gone Tomorrow While playing to lackluster crowds in their hometown of Philadelphia, progressive rock band Agenbite clings to the comforting half-truth that they're doing better in Japan. When their manager agrees to send them over on a shoestring tour, though, they're swiftly forced to give up their illusions and return stateside. All but one of them, that is. Brain Tedesco, the band's obsessive-compulsive nerve center, has fallen in love with a part-time sex worker - the first woman ever to have touched him - and his illusions have only just begun. What ensues is a gritty coming-of-age tale in which Brain, intent on achieving some kind of transcendence, paradoxically (or not so paradoxically) descends into the Hungry Ghost realm of Tokyo’s underworld. He becomes, in effect, a gaki - the insatiable creature of Buddhist cosmology - and must learn how to live even as his outsize desires threaten to engulf him. By turns compassionate and ruthless, erotic and grotesque, riotously serious and deadly funny, Big in Japan is a sparking, gut-wrenching, face-melting debut novel.
Strange Japan
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Author : Ace Wall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-14
Strange Japan written by Ace Wall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-14 with categories.
Hauntings, cults, unsolved mysteries, UFOs, true crime and bizarre accounts of unexplainedWarning! This book will give you the creeps! Welcome to the dark side of Japan. Real accounts of strange events, horrifying crimes, dangerous cults, disappearances and more!After a strange phone call to her boyfriend and some strange unexplained behavior a schoolgirl goes missing on her way to her part-time job. A group kidnaps the president of a Candy corporation demanding millions of dollarsAn abandoned school is said to be the most haunted location of Japan. A Left wing extremist extremist group commits a series of unsettling crimes. A captain and his flight crew of Japanese Airlines see a massive UFO in 1986. A group of schoolgirls drive to a haunted location never to be heard from ever again.Living ghost soldiers of the Japanese army that fought the war for almost 30 years!These are just of few of the stories that are in this book. Some stories will give you the creeps, the chills. some will leave you frighten, others will leave you baffled by there unexplainable nature. Table of contents True Crime: Monster with 21 FacesThe case of Tsubono spaThe mystery money that appeared in JapanPoisoned drink Murder MysteryNorth Korean Kidnappings The Legend of Yamashita's GoldThe Living Japanese Ghost soldiers who fought WW2 for almost 30 yearsMultiple Possessions at a Japanese High schoolJapan's most Haunted location: Abandoned school of Hokkaido The Deadly Aum Shinrikyo cult A Japanese politician was killed or was he assassinatedThe man from TauredThe Asama-Sanso incidentTokyo's Haunted Park: Human Experiments of WW2Doryo Temple haunting: Murder, Suicide and a Japanese TempleStrange Phone Call: Muroran High school girl disappearanceKokkuri, Japanese Ouija Board GameHibagon: Japanese Bigfoot sightingsUrban Legend: Alice Murder Mystery of Japan 1999-2005 UFO encounter of flight 1628The haunted Kleenex commercial
In The Realm Of The Senses
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Author : Joan Mellen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-25
In The Realm Of The Senses written by Joan Mellen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with Performing Arts categories.
In this work, Joan Mellen analyses 'In the Realm of the Senses', the controversial film which caused a sensation at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
Exotic Japanese Stories
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Author : 芥川龍之介
language : en
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation
Release Date : 1964
Exotic Japanese Stories written by 芥川龍之介 and has been published by New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Literary Collections categories.