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Politics and Power in 20th-Century Japan: The Reminiscences of Miyazawa Kiichi
A translated collection of interviews with political giant Miyazawa Kiichi, former Prime Minister of Japan.
Kenji Miyazawa's Restaurant of Many Orders and Other Stories
"In the transcendent stories of Miyazawa, Earth teems with magic and wonder." —Publishers Weekly "A marvelous writer who deserves to be much better known in English." —Kirkus This charming manga collection presents three modern fables by one of Japan's most gifted authors, the poet and short story writer Kenji Miyazawa. Miyazawa is beloved in Japan, and increasingly abroad, for his masterful storytelling, poetic imagery, and powerful evocation of both the shadow and light of human nature. His world of sentient stars and enchanted forests, presented here in manga form, will appeal to imaginative readers of all ages. The Restaurant of Many Orders follows a pair of confident, self-centered ...
Miyazawa Kenji's Ten Japanese Stories for Children
Miyazawa Kenji is perhaps the most widely researched Japanese writer presently, not only by Japanese scholars but also by foreign scholars of Japanese literature worldwide. The relevance and meaning of Kenji's works to the contemporary world have increased manifold over the years and the researchers throughout the world unanimously agree to the truth that his works stand for the betterment and benefit of the mankind as a whole. This universality of his works appeals to the psyche of every human being on this earth, irrespective his/her age, race, gender, language or nationality. Ten of his representative short stories in English translation are introduced in this volume for my young fellow c...
Once and Forever
Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester’s selection and expert translation of Miyazawa’s short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent “Wildcat and the Acorns,” to the cautionary tale “The Restaurant of Many Orders,” to “The Earthgod and the Fox,” which starts out whimsically before taking a tragic turn. Miyazawa also had a deep connection to Japanese folklore and an intense love of the natural world. In “The Wild Pear,” what seem to be two slight nature sketches succeed in encapsulating some of the cruelty and compensations of life itself.
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Kenji Miyazawa's a Night on the Galactic Railway
"A breathtakingly beautiful world...reminding us that we are part of the universe." --Kaori Nagai "A modern classic." --NPR Lonely, awkward Giovanni has a sick mother, an absent father and an afterschool job that keeps him from playing with his classmates. One evening, on the night of the Star Festival, he is magically transported by train through the galaxy with his best friend, Campanella.The boys share a fantastical journey to the stars, meeting mysterious characters who prompt them to think about the meaning of life. Only when Giovanni returns to earth does he learn the heartbreaking truth about their adventure. Kenji Miyazawa is one of Japan's most beloved authors and is increasingly appreciated abroad for his masterful storytelling, poetic imagery and powerful evocation of the shadow and light of human nature. Filled with stunning images and deeply moving themes of friendship and sacrifice, A Night on the Galactic Railway is one of Miyazawa's greatest works, written at the peak of his talent. Reads right-to-left in the Japanese style.
Compound and Josephson High-Speed Devices
This book reviews both the fundamentals and recent advances in analog and digital integrated circuits in compound semiconductors and Josephson junctions. Researchers, engineers, and graduate students who are unfamiliar with the field will find here a complete, unified account of the physical principles, concepts, and design techniques of these devices.
On Uneven Ground
The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of this neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). While alive, he remained a mostly unknown and unread provincial author whose experiments with narrative fiction, amateur theater, and farmer's art reveal an intense determination to reimagine and remake his native place, in the northeast of Japan, meaningful. Today, Miyazawa is one of the most recognized figures in Japan's modern literary canon. The story of his radical posthumous rise presents an opportunity to examine the larger history of how writing and other forms of artistic practice have intersected with place-based identity and the uneven geography of cultural production. The first book-length study of Miyazawa in English, On Uneven Ground centers on Miyazawa's life and writing to recreate a sense of what it was to write about and remake place from a spatially marginal position in the cultural field.
Miyazawa Kenji
The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa’s work into English. Hiroaki Sato’...
Secret Talks Between Tokyo and Washington
Secret Talks Between Tokyo and Washington offers an insider's perspective of the political, economic, and security-related negotiations of Japan and America between 1949 and 1954. Translated by Robert D. Eldridge, for the first time the memoirs of Miyazawa Kiichi reaches a global audience. This book is a critical link to understanding the views and reactions of the Japanese government, both when it was under occupation and then as a newly independent nation, during which time the young, talented, and international-minded Kiichi played a central role. A firm believer in the 'Yoshida Doctrine, ' Kiichi argued that Japan should play a civilian economic role instead of becoming a military power ...
