Japanese American

In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators — yet there was little hope.

The beloved bestselling author of The Color of Air, Women of the Silk, and The Samurai's Garden returns with this magnificent historical novel based on the life of the luminous, groundbreaking actress Anna May Wong—the first and only Asian American woman to gain movie stardom in the early days of Hollywood.

Most books gloss over submarines at Midway and, if they are mentioned at all, conclude they failed miserably and had little impact on the outcome of the battle. It is undeniable that carrier aviation and intelligence saved the day, but the role of the submarine was an important one in defense of an anticipated amphibious assault. Midway Submerged is a comprehensive examination of a little-known aspect of this pivotal naval battle, explaining how Nimitz used his submarines at Midway and the Japanese misused theirs based on a flawed tactical plan.

This is the story of Morning Glory’s turn of the century kenbutsu—her travels—to America. Guided by her uncle, a Harvard graduate, Morning Glory travels at a time when most Americans know little or nothing about Japan, aside from the popular tunes of The Mikado (1885) and The Geisha (1896).

Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to. That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor.

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

Behind Japanese Lines has a great deal to say about the relations with the Filipinos and about the problems of dealing with and fighting the Hukbalahaps, the communist guerrillas or, indeed, in opposing the Japanese. This book adds considerable insights into the significance of guerrilla warfare as it relates to modern warfare in general

Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki was a man who succeeded in everything he pursued. From wrestling, ballooning, underwater exploration, and car and boat racing to founding Benihana, Rocky's passion for life infected all around him and accelerated the exchange of Japanese culture and cuisine with America. Rocky's rags to riches story, from dishwasher and busboy to owner of a multi-million-dollar restaurant empire, is an American dream realized unlike any other.

Ben Kuroki was a twenty-four-year-old Japanese American farm boy whose heritage was never a problem in remote Nebraska—until Pearl Harbor. Among the millions of Americans who flocked to military stations to enlist, Ben wanted to avenge the attack, reclaim his family honor, and prove his patriotism. But as anti-Japanese sentiment soared, Ben had to fight to be allowed to fight for America. And fight he did.

Decades before trade moved between the United States and Japan at its present pace, there was a Japanese immigrant's son with an American dream. Born to a farming tycoon in California, George Aratani was forced to leave the family business behind when incarcerated with more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. After the war, he traveled to Japan with little idea of what he would import from the war-devastated archipelago. What followed was the development of his two powerful businesses, Mikasa and Kenwood.

Signed on September 2, 1945 by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. The surrender fulfilled the commitment that Franklin Roosevelt had made in 1943 at the Casablanca conference that it be "unconditional". Though readily accepted as policy at the time, after Roosevelt's death in April 1945, support for unconditional surrender wavered, particularly among Republicans in Congress.

Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "the Rock," the daily struggles to tend the sick, the wounded, and the dying, during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Once captive, the doctors and corpsmen waged a desperate war against disease and starvation for nearly three and a half years, amid an enemy who viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the four POWs tried to function as a family.

In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 28 Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on 10 of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged, while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved strangest of all. Among all the political and military leaders on trial, Okawa was the lone civilian.

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In late 1944 the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. As soldiers, sailors, and marines were herded into shallow air raid shelters, Japanese soldiers doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. By the next morning, only 11 men were left alive - but their desperate journey to freedom had just begun.

The head of US public relations at Kobayashi Motors, the largest automaker in Japan, is Cadence St. James that is, until she's forced to take on the dangerous new role of corporate whistleblower. Cadence's twin sister, Cushmeer Kincaid, is a human rights statistician who suffers from a fear of public speaking. When Kobayashi cars start spontaneously accelerating and the death toll rises, Toshio Nakamura, a company executive, heads due north to Minneapolis, Minnesota and pulls Cushmeer into the treacherous fray.

世界の神話を収めた「世界の神話」シリーズ。 ネイティブ・アメリカン最大の部族となったナバホの民は、仲間を増やし、絆を強くしていきました。

皆さんは、どんな希望や夢を持ちアメリカへの留学をお考えですか？　アメリカのキャンパスってどんな所なんだろう？　また実際の授業について行けるかな？　友達が出来るかな？　などと思われていると思います。このシリーズでは、アメリカ流の大学生のスキルを身に付けるための訓練法を紹介します。全体的に明るく積極的なアメリカ人。勉強のみでなく、アメリカ人生徒の発想、知識、文化を最大限に吸収するのが、このシリーズの特徴です。渡米前からリアルな情報や状況を知ることは渡米後の精神的サポートとして必ず役立ちます。まず初めに日本人留学生が洗礼を受けるのは、リスニングです。リスニングスキルが弱い為にノートを取ることすら出来ないのが実状です。状況を把握出来ていないので教授にもクラスメートにも質問が出来ないのです。またその質問の切り出し方などもどの様に持っていったらよいのか解からず留学当初は、途方にくれる毎日です。特に学部留学の方は大変です。大学院と比べ、一般教養がある学部留学では、さらに果てしない語彙との戦いが待ち構えています。またこちらの授業は、短くて５０分長ければ２時間近くもの間、英語での授業を聴かなければなりません。それを克服するには、ネイティブが話すパターンを覚えることです。そのコツをマスターすればスムーズに授業が聴けるようにもなります。また、繰り返しそのパターンを学ぶ事で話せるようにもなります。その延長

皆さんは、どんな希望や夢を持ちアメリカへの留学をお考えですか？　アメリカのキャンパスってどんな所なんだろう？　また実際の授業について行けるかな？　友達が出来るかな？　などと思われていると思います。このシリーズでは、アメリカ流の大学生のスキルを身に付けるための訓練法を紹介します。全体的に明るく積極的なアメリカ人。勉強のみでなく、アメリカ人生徒の発想、知識、文化を最大限に吸収するのが、このシリーズの特徴です。渡米前からリアルな情報や状況を知ることは渡米後の精神的サポートとして必ず役立ちます。このレッスンでは、教授との上手な付き合い方を伝授します！

「ポルノ」という言葉はすっかり定着して日本語となり、性的な表現物を指すうえで最適な言葉として使用されるようになりました。もともとはpornographyという英語が、ポルノグラフィーと発音されて使われていたものが、省略されて「ポルノ」となったのです。この言葉はラテン語の「娼婦についての描写」が語源で、それが19世紀ころから「わいせつな表現物」という意味で使われるようになりました。そのなかでも、特に「性的な刺激と興奮を追求するもので、人間のセックス・ファンタジー、性的な幻想」を意味したのです。本書では、そのポルノを用いて英語に親しもうと提案しています。英語の読解力を身につけるためにポルノが最適なのは、ポルノの目的なり効能が明白なので、読む側もそれに合わせて対処すればいいからです。ポルノの読みどころは、そのホット・パートにあります。そういったパートを見つけるのはそれほど難しいことではありません。短い会話が増え、’Ahh~’とか’Ohh~’といった感嘆詞が出てくれば、そこがまさにホット・パートです。本商品では、英文ポルノを読む聴く手助けとなる方法をいろいろ解説しています。英語は難しいと決めてかからないで下さい。英語を読む楽しさ聴く楽しさを感じ、本商品を聴き終わったあと、今度は原書を読んでみたいと思っていただけたら、それにまさる喜びはありません。 ※...