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For centuries the Japanese warred among themselves and their neighbors, creating a colorful, rich and sometimes brutal legacy. Intriguing to outsiders for centuries, modern Japan is no less so In the 21st century. Featured locations: Tsukiji Fish Market & Tuna Auction, Senso Ji Buddhist Temple, Roppongi Hills, Ginza Shopping District, Ueno Park & Cherry Blossoms, Hakone, Owakudani Boiling Valley & Mount Fuji, Nikko & Shogun Tokugawa's Mausoleum, Takayama...
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English
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For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as these matters have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan's security policy? Will confluence with U.S. interests-and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Teen Titans journey to Japan to find the notorious villain Brushogun. But crushing the criminal element on the other side of the ocean isn't as easy as they thought. Now it's the law that is unintentionally aiding Brushogun in destroying them all!
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English
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Memorize tricky Japanese kanji with ease! Since its publication in 1993, this beginner Japanese workbook and textbook has been a hit with teachers and students for learning basic Japanese kanji characters. Speak, read and write Japanese with this newly revised edition that has been updated and expanded by members of the Kanji Text Research Group at the prestigious Tokyo University. Essential Japanese Kanji Volume 1 presents the 250 kanji characters...
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Series
Nana volume 21
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Tragedy strikes as the Search Weekly team takes their snooping too far! Hounded to the limit by remorseless reporters, Ren spins his car off the icy road in a horrible accident that will change the course of everyone's future" -- p. [4] of cover.
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Before the coffee gets cold volume 1
Language
English
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In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
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Series
Before the coffee gets cold volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf�e that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of caf�e Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers....
10) Himawari House
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Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks,...
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Series
Before the coffee gets cold volume 3
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer. Along with some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister and a lover, each with something they wish they had said differently"--
14) Six four
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the...
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English
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Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's popular "geek" or otaku culture, a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe. This is the most comprehensive guide to Tokyo's geeky underworld ever produced. It provides a comprehensive run-down on each major Tokyo district where geeks congregate, shop, play and hang out from hi-tech Akihabara and trendy Harajuku to newer and lesser-known haunts like chic Shimo-Kita and working-class Ikebukuro. Dozens of iconic...
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Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago, the aliens invaded Tokyo. Nothing was ever the same again, but after a while, even impending doom starts to feel ordinary. While the Japan Self-Defense Forces are still trying to combat the alien threat, Kadode Koyama and her best friend avidly track the aliens' movements on social media and less enthusiastically study for college entrance exams. When the end of the world looms over your head, you learn to take things one step at...
17) Nana: Vol. 20
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Series
Nana volume 20
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Ren's drug use is spiraling out of control and he doesn't want to drag Trapnest down with him. Neither Takumi nor Reira are willing to let Ren quit the band, and both do their best to give him the time he needs to get it together. But Ren isn't sure this is something he can handle on his own. Will he turn to Nana for help, or will their strained relationship make him try to face his demons alone?"--p. 4 of cover.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo....
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Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."--
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