Japan category: 1648 books

"11000+ English - Japanese Japanese - English Vocabulary" is a list of more than 11000 words translated from English to Japanese, as well as translated from Japanese to English. Easy to use- great for tourists and English speakers interested in learning Japanese. As well as Japanese speakers interested in learning English.

It is never enough to simply learn Japanese words. Like with any other language, it is foolhardy to ignore grammar. Language is about vocabulary, conjugations, usage and so much more. For proficiency  in second languages, you should learn everything you need to know about its grammar. This is...

Extrait : "Autrefois tous les bâtiments qui se rendaient à Calcutta, faisaient escale à Pointe de Galles, et remontaient le golfe du Bengale en s'arrêtant à Pondichéry et à Madras. Aujourd'hui cette route est presque abandonnée ; on préfère débarquer à Bombay et traverser la Péninsule...

« Nous sommes pris à notre piège, nous avons collaboré à un système que nous savions porteur d'une mort atroce. » L'auteur écrit à une amie japonaise qui vit à Tokyo. Lettre sensible, pleine d'émotion. La catastrophe vient de se produire à Fukushima. Il n'a pas de nouvelles. Ce...

Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy's heavy cruisers were fast and heavily armed. Like the other vessels of the Japanese Navy, the heavy cruisers were technologically superior to and far more innovative...

This volume will detail the history, weapons and tactics of the Japanese destroyers built before the war. This includes the famous Fubuki class (called "Special Type†? by the Japanese, which were, when completed in the late 1920's, the most powerful class of destroyers in the world. This design...

The kimono is an iconic garment with a history as rich and colourful as the textiles from which it is crafted. Deeply associated with Japanese culture both past and present, it has often been thought of as a highly gendered, rigidly traditional and unchanging national costume. This book challenges...

This work deals with every aspect of the traditional Japanese home, from its general plan and major structural features to such ceremonial and traditional appointments as the tatami mats (which actually determine the size of the house), lamps, hibachi (braziers), fusuma and shoji screens, candlesticks,...

A remarkable classic work on traditional Japanese architecture and its general integrative quality, the order of space and form, the flexibility of partitions and room functions and other important or unique qualities. The author describes in detail, and with numerous architectural plans and drawings,...

This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse, the gender constructions of the imagery of the body and...

For beauty, precision and strength, nothing has ever matched the combination of form and function found in the armour of the samurai. For a samurai, the consummate warrior, his suit of armour was so much more than 'just' protective equipment that could save his life in the heat of battle – it was...

A concise yet comprehensive history of traditional Okinawan and Japanese karate, with biographies of the great karate masters This concise-yet-comprehensive history of traditional Okinawan and Japanese karate includes authoritative biographies of the great karate masters of the past and the...

Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and...

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