Stone Bridge Press: 69 books
China Survival Guide
How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
An ideal, pocket-sized, 264 page compendium packed from cover to cover with practical advice, insightful commentary, and invaluable tips on places to go, things to see, what to do, and what to avoid. . . . China Survival Guide should be considered an essential 'take-along' for anyone visiting China...
Womansword
What Japanese Words Say About Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
"A very graceful, erudite job . . . extraordinarily revealing."-The New York Times Thirty years after its first publication, Womansword remains a timely, provocative work on how words reflect female stereotypes in modern Japan. Short, lively essays offer linguistic, sociological, and historical...
Green Tea Living
A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Starting with the notion that some traditions-like drinking green tea for health and mental acuity-embody timeless wisdom for living, Toshimi A. Kayaki offers dozens of wise old Japanese ways for improving how you look and feel while respecting nature and the environment. Carry your own pair of chopsticks,...
Evening Clouds
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
A masterpiece of quiet lyricism set against a backdrop of change and renewal in suburban Tokyo
Speak and Read Chinese
Fun Mnemonic Devices for Remembering Chinese Words and Their Tones
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
From one of the authors of Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar comes Speak and Read Chinese, a simple, fun guide that helps language learners remember essential Chinese characters.Students and teachers rate character pronunciation and tones the two most difficult aspects of learning Chinese....
Innovating Out of Crisis
How Fujifilm Survived (and Thrived) As Its Core Business Was Vanishing
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In 2000, photographic film products made up 60% of Fujifilm’s sales and up to 70% of its profit. Within ten years, digital cameras had destroyed that business. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Yet Fujifilm has boasted record profits and continues strong. What happened? What did Fujifilm do?...
Japaneseness
A Guide to Values and Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This book looks at the core life concepts and shared values that historically and culturally define the quality of "being Japanese." Among these are reverence, love of nature, group loyalty, hierarchical respect, passion for detail, belief in learning, formality, and acceptance of change. How can...
by Jeanette Arakawa
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This is the author's first book (b. 1932) : a novelized memoir, more evocation than autobiography
Author’s words: “This book has caused me to retrace a journey long past: occasionally joyful, occasionally painful. I believe that underlying everyone's experience, though varied, are threads...
Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe
How an American Acrobat Introduced Circus to Japan--and Japan to the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
"Frederik L. Schodt has at long last unveiled the fascinating story of 'Professor Risley.' Circus scholars, history buffs, and anyone with an ounce of curiosity should be grateful to him."—Dominique Jando, Circopedia.org "Professor" Risley (Richard Risley Carlisle) introduced the Western circus...
Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar
A Student's Guide to Correct Structures and Common Errors
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence.Qin...
by Shun Medoruma, Kyle Ikeda
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
a new voice in Japanese literature makes its debut here in Medoruma's first full-length work in English; bears some resemblance to Kenji Nakagami in the toughness of his prose and grappling with minority issues
novel is a fictionalized event but very close to actual experience. It sheds light...
The Cape
and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Born into the burakumin—Japan’s class of outcasts—Kenji Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in sensual language and stark detail. The Cape is a breakthrough novella about a burakumin community, their troubled memories, and complex family histories. Includes House on Fire and Red Hair. Kenji Nakagami (1946–92) was a prolific writer admired for his vigorous prose style.
Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings
With Observations on Culture and Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
This treasury of Chinese wisdom presents over five hundred proverbs while offering keys to culture and language. Here are both the familiar, earnest sayings of Confucius and Lao Zi ("The longest journey begins with a single step") and the homespun truths of every day ("Teachers open the door; you enter...
Native American in the Land of the Shogun
Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in...