Vanishing Japan
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Looking For The Lost
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Author : Alan Booth
language : en
Publisher: Vertical Inc
Release Date : 2021-04-21
Looking For The Lost written by Alan Booth and has been published by Vertical Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-21 with Travel categories.
A VIBRANT, MEDITATIVE WALK IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL OF JAPAN Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far removed from the stereotypes familiar to Westerners. Whether retracing the footsteps of ancient warriors or detailing the encroachments of suburban sprawl, he unerringly finds the telling detail, the unexpected transformation, the everyday drama that brings this remote world to life on the page. Looking for the Lost is full of personalities, from friendly gangsters to mischievous children to the author himself, an expatriate who found in Japan both his true home and dogged exile. Wry, witty, sometimes angry, always eloquent, Booth is a uniquely perceptive guide. Looking for the Lost is a technicolor journey into the heart of a nation. Perhaps even more significant, it is the self-portrait of one man, Alan Booth, exquisitely painted in the twilight of his own life.
Vanishing Japan
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Author : Elizabeth Kiritani
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01-17
Vanishing Japan written by Elizabeth Kiritani and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-17 with Travel categories.
This classic text of Japanese culture contains a wealth of information about traditional Japan and Japanese customs. Pawnshops and handmade paper, shoe shiners and Shinto jugglers, money rakes and mosquito netting—all these were once a familiar part of daily life in Japan. Many elements of that daily life, like the Obon dances and oreiboko apprenticeships, have no counterpart in any other culture: they are purely unique to Japan. But with the tremendous changes of the modern age, most traces of traditional life in Japan are fast disappearing, soon to be gone forever. Still, there are a few holdouts, especially in Japan's shitamachi, or working-class neighborhoods, where many of the survivors of Japanese crafts, art forms, and festivals are making their last stand. Vanishing Japan is a must-read for tourists, historians, architects, or artists who are interested in Japanese culture.
Discourses Of The Vanishing
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Author : Marilyn Ivy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-02-15
Discourses Of The Vanishing written by Marilyn Ivy 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 2010-02-15 with Social Science categories.
Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties—and the attempts to contain them—as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.
Vanishing Japan
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Author : Morton Wesley Huber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Vanishing Japan written by Morton Wesley Huber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Japan categories.
The Vanished
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Author : Léna Mauger
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-09-20
The Vanished written by Léna Mauger and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Social Science categories.
Every year, nearly one hundred thousand Japanese vanish without a trace. Known as the johatsu, or the “evaporated,” they are often driven by shame and hopelessness, leaving behind lost jobs, disappointed families, and mounting debts. In The Vanished, journalist Léna Mauger and photographer Stéphane Remael uncover the human faces behind the phenomenon through reportage, photographs, and interviews with those who left, those who stayed behind, and those who help orchestrate the disappearances. Their quest to learn the stories of the johatsu weaves its way through: A Tokyo neighborhood so notorious for its petty criminal activities that it was literally erased from the maps Reprogramming camps for subpar bureaucrats and businessmen to become “better” employees The charmless citadel of Toyota City, with its iron grip on its employees The “suicide” cliffs of Tojinbo, patrolled by a man fighting to save the desperate The desolation of Fukushima in the aftermath of the tsunami And yet, as exotic and foreign as their stories might appear to an outsider’s eyes, the human experience shared by the interviewees remains powerfully universal.
The Sudden Disappearance Of Japan
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Author : James Dale Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Sudden Disappearance Of Japan written by James Dale Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
O Yamato
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Author : Howard Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
O Yamato written by Howard Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Folklore categories.
The Sudden Disappearance Of Japan
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Author : J. D. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Millefleurs
Release Date : 1994
The Sudden Disappearance Of Japan written by J. D. Brown and has been published by Millefleurs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Ainu Folklore
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Author : Carl Etter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Ainu Folklore written by Carl Etter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Ainu categories.
Bakumatsu Japan
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Author : Aimé Humbert
language : en
Publisher: Toyo Press
Release Date : 2019-12-06
Bakumatsu Japan written by Aimé Humbert and has been published by Toyo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with History categories.
Aimé Humbert (1819-1900), arrived in Japan in 1863 as Swiss envoy plenipotentiary to conclude a treaty with the shogunate. Though he was to spend less than a year in Japan, Humber's impressions are of great historical value, for he did so just before the fall of the shogunate-during the twilight years of the Bakufu, or bakumatsu in Japanese.