The Gateway To Japan
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Gateway To Japan
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Author : June Kinoshita
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date : 1998
Gateway To Japan written by June Kinoshita and has been published by Kodansha this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Travel categories.
Gateway to Japan provides readers with over 100 maps and illustrations, placeames in English and Japanese, an in-depth cultural and history section and auide to all hotels and restaurants as well as information on local transport.
Gateway To Japan
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Author : Bruce L. Batten
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-01-31
Gateway To Japan written by Bruce L. Batten and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-31 with History categories.
A thousand years ago, most visitors to Japan would have arrived by ship at Hakata Bay, the one and only authorized gateway to Japan. Hakata was the location of the Kôrokan, an official guest-house for foreign visitors that is currently yielding its secrets to the spades of Japanese archaeologists. Nearby was Dazaifu, the imperial capital of western Japan, surrounded by mountain fortresses and defended by an army of border guards. Over the ages, Hakata was a staging ground for Japanese troops on their way to Korea and ground zero for foreign invasions of Japan. Through the port passed a rich variety of diplomats, immigrants, raiders, and traders, both Japanese and foreign. Gateway to Japan spotlights four categories of cross-cultural interaction—war, diplomacy, piracy, and trade—over a period of eight hundred years to gain insight into several larger questions about Japan and its place in the world: How and why did Hakata come to serve as the country’s "front door"? How did geography influence the development of state and society in the Japanese archipelago? Has Japan been historically open or closed to outside influence? Why are Japanese so profoundly ambivalent about other places and people? Individual chapters focus on Chinese expansionism and its consequences for Japan and East Asia as a whole; the subtle (and not-so-subtle) contradictions and obfuscations of the diplomatic process as seen in Japanese treatment of Korean envoys visiting Kyushu; random but sometimes devastating attacks on Kyushu by Korean (and sometimes Japanese) pirates; and foreign commerce in and around Hakata, which turns out to be neither fully "foreign" nor fully "commerce" in the modern sense of the word. The conclusion briefly traces the story forward into medieval and early modern times. Enriched by fascinating historical vignettes and dozens of maps and photographs, this engagingly written volume explores issues not only important for Japan’s early history but also highly pertinent to Japan’s role in the world today. Now, as in the period examined here, Japan has one principal entry point (the international airport at Narita); its relationship with the outside world (both East and West) is ambivalent; and, while sometimes astonishingly open-minded, Japanese are at other times frustratingly exclusive in their dealings with non-Japanese. Gateway to Japan will be of substantial interest to all students of Japan, East Asia, and intercultural studies.
The Gateway To Japan
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Author : Kanagawa-ken (Japan). Planning and Liaison Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Gateway To Japan written by Kanagawa-ken (Japan). Planning and Liaison Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Industries categories.
Photographs and text show the rehabilitation of the Prefecture since the devastation of Second World War.
Kyushu Gateway To Japan
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Author : Andrew Cobbing
language : en
Publisher: Global Oriental
Release Date : 2008-12-18
Kyushu Gateway To Japan written by Andrew Cobbing and has been published by Global Oriental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-18 with History categories.
This book examines 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.
The Gateway To The Pacific
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Author : Meredith Oda
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-01-03
The Gateway To The Pacific written by Meredith Oda and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-03 with History categories.
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.
Gateway To Japan
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Gateway To Japan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Japan categories.
The Japan British Exhibition Of 1910
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Author : Ayako Hotta-Lister
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999
The Japan British Exhibition Of 1910 written by Ayako Hotta-Lister and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art, Japanese categories.
Faced with western contempt and suspicion, the Meiji Government staged this exhibition to advance Japanese agendas in political, economic and educational terms. The first major study principally concerned with the Japanese side of this story.
50 Years Of Us Study Abroad Students
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Author : Sarah R. Asada
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-14
50 Years Of Us Study Abroad Students written by Sarah R. Asada and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-14 with Education categories.
Since the 1960s, Japan has been a historical leading study abroad destination for US undergraduate students. This book explores the long-term impacts of study abroad through a lens of knowledge diplomacy and the cultivation of individuals with understanding of the host country and world through transformative international experiences. Based on extensive original survey data and interviews with alumni over nearly 50 years of the Japan Study Program, the book provides a historical perspective on the personal impacts of study abroad on academic, professional, and personal development. The author further explores knowledge diplomacy seen as the creation of an in-depth understanding of the host country, familiarity of the host region, and awakened consciousness of the world through subsequent life experiences. Recipient of the 2020 Best Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Study Abroad and International Students Special Interest Group.
Imperial Gateway
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Author : Seiji Shirane
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-15
Imperial Gateway written by Seiji Shirane and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Social Science categories.
In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, Shirane uncovers a half century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and Western regional powers. Japanese officials in Taiwan did not simply take orders from Tokyo; rather, they often pursued their own expansionist ambitions in South China and Southeast Asia. When outright conquest was not possible, they promoted alternative strategies, including naturalizing resident Chinese as overseas Taiwanese subjects, extending colonial police networks, and deploying tens of thousands of Taiwanese to war. The Taiwanese—merchants, gangsters, policemen, interpreters, nurses, and soldiers—seized new opportunities for socioeconomic advancement that did not always align with Japan's imperial interests. Drawing on multilingual archives in six countries, Imperial Gateway shows how Japanese officials and Taiwanese subjects transformed Taiwan into a regional gateway for expansion in an ever-shifting international order. Thanks to generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Claiming The Oriental Gateway
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Author : Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2011
Claiming The Oriental Gateway written by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
How the interests of Seattle and Japanese Americans were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II.