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| | Total Quality Japanese: Lost in Translation |
 | | In the introduction to "Lost Japan," a book Alex Kerr originally wrote in Japanese, the author excused himself for having asked someone else to translate his own book into English. | | | The Japanese version of Seagull became an overnight success, selling hundreds of thousands of copies at a time when translated literature was not doing well. | | | My first reaction was, "How pretentious!" No matter what the differences between Japanese and English, surely translating one's own work into one's mother tongue cannot be as difficult as Kerr insisted. |
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http://www.cic.sfu.ca/tqj/JapaneseStudy/lostTrans.html
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| | GEMILANG 127: Japanese Camps in Southeast Asia (Updated January 2004)). |
| | Originally author, a famous dutch cabaret-player and stand-up comedian was on a tour, together with his devoted wife Corry Vonk, and his group, through colonial Indonesia, when the japanese invasion of Indonesia prevented them to flee. | | | in ink by author, for the presentation of her book, double-page, with a coloured route-map at tail, directed to Mr. | | | the structural organization of the japanese internment camps in general, tables as appendices at end of volume, name-list of those perished in Banjoe NBiroe XI, english summary, glossary low-malay/dutch, concise glossary of japanese words, extensive notes to chapters at end, bibliogr., 6 facsims. |
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http://www.antiquariaten.com/gemilang/catalogs/c00667.htm
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| | Midnight Eye book review: Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film (author: Chris D., publisher: IB Tauris / Palgrave Macmillan) |
| | This, the official Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film tome, spotlights 14 filmmakers (twelve directors and two actors) who personify the author's image of outlaw artists, each covered here with an essay, a filmography and an interview. | | | Each chapter consists of an essay, a filmography and an interview, but little effort is made to place the filmmakers and their work within a proper context, either socio-historical or industry-wise. | | | There are also a few issues with the filmographies, like the loose translations of Japanese titles that are presented as if official, causing more confusion than clarity. |
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http://www.midnighteye.com/books/outlaw-masters.shtml
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| | William Scott Wilson Home Page |
| | The history of this much-mythologized 17th-century samurai swordsman is a fascinating story of a man striving for an ideal on his own terms, in the face of very difficult odds. | | | The Lone Samurai is a landmark biography of Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary Japanese figure known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of The Book of Five Rings. | | | With a compassionate yet critical eye, William Scott Wilson delves into the workings of Musashi's mind as the iconoclastic samurai wrestled with philosophical and spiritual ideas that are as relevant today as they were in his times. |
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http://www.williamscottwilson.net
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| | Japanese author says book inspiration for Dylan songs lawrence.com |
| | Tokyo &; A Japanese writer said Tuesday he was flattered to learn that passages from one of his books apparently found their way into Bob Dylan's lyrics. | | | Japanese author says book inspiration for Dylan songs | | | Japanese author says book inspiration for Dylan songs |
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http://www.lawrence.com/news/entertainment/story/123595
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| | New Page 1 |
| | Japanese Illustration of Last Korean Queen Discovered (Chosun) -- After fresh documentary evidence rekindled interest in Korea's assassinated last empress Myeongseong (1851~1895), a depiction of the empress thought to be drawn from life has come to light. | | | All books on Korean history say that the last Queen of Korea was murdered by the Japanese and that her corpse was burned. | | | Kim Jin Myong, a Korean author of historical novels, was researching the killing of the Queen when he ran into Husako's book, The Assassination of the Last Queen of Korea. |
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http://www.kimsoft.com/2002/jp-rape.htm
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| | [Cyberclub] Japanese author Mr. Tajima Shinji's Books Launching Ceremony by Oxford University Press |
| | The author has imaginatively used different animals to make observations on human behaviour, greed, lust for power and ecological irresponsibility. | | | In Cloud Tales, a benevolent cloud speaks through the author about human nature, as observed in places and events it has seen over the centuries. | | | Book Launching Ceremony of Japanese renowned author Tajima Shinji's books "The Lonely Fox and other stories", "Gaudi's Ocean The Story of a Great Sea Turtle" and "Cloud Tales" shall be held at Hotel Crown Plaza, Blue Area, Islamabad, at 3.30 p.m. |
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http://lists.isb.sdnpk.org/pipermail/cyberclub/2000-November/000604.html
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| | Tokyo Suckerpunch: an Interview With Author Isaac Adamson ~ gate39.com: a webzine on Japan |
| | Find out more about the books and author at www.billychaka.com. | | | I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the author of "Tokyo Suckerpunch", Isaac Adamson, in a local pub that would surely make Billy Chaka feel at home. | | | References ranged from the traditional (Geisha, Samurai, Gaijin) to the popular (religious cults, Yakuza, motorcycle gangs, and love hotels) were made and very accurate. |
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http://www.gate39.com/media/suckerpunch.aspx
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| | Japanese author writes on Indian architecture - The Times of India |
| | The book is the English translation of the original in Japanese. | | | Indian architech Gerard da Cunha, and publisher of the English edition Sangita Jindal of Jindal South West Foundation, the sponsor will be present at the release. | | | The book has been translated by Geetha Parameshwaran, edited by architect Annabel Lopez and printed by Pragati in Hyderabad. |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=173585
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| | University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library Japanese Electronic Resources Workshop |
| | For title word, author, and keyword searches, can use kanji, hiragana, katakana, or romaji. | | | Find a book by doing an author or title search and then look at the subject headings for book. | | | WINE is good for checking journal holdings which are not represented as well as book holdings in WorldCat. |
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http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/EastAsia/instruction/eresources.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Japanese Step by Step |
| | This book is NOT the only book on Japanese you'll ever need. | | | As I alluded in the title of this review, this is merely a good first step. | | | This book erased most of my initial apprehension over the subject. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0658014900
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| | Kaidan : Japanese for ghost story, formerly transliterated as kwaidan which Lafcadio Hearn used for his famous book of Japanese weird tales. | | | Misrendering of kaidan, which is Japanese for ghost story. | | | Konaki jiji : Japanese traditional monster, literally, crying old man. He appears as a baby crying by the roadside. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/sk3/asianhorror/k.html
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| | Literary Review: The three - includes an essay on translating the Japanese author of this story |
| | There seems to be no way of dealing with them that do not place the translator, or the original author-or both-in danger of appearing silly or incompetent. | | | This leaves the translator under even greater obligation than usual to try to preserve some possibility of an intelligent reading for those who can know Toson only through translation. | | | The three - includes an essay on translating the Japanese author of this story |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_n2_v39/ai_18099999
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| | Los Angeles Magazine: The Enemy Below - Japanese author Haruki Murakami |
| | When he first hit it big in Japan with such books as 1982's A Wild Sheep Chase--the absurdist tale of an adman seeking a weirdly marked sheep--the literary establishment didn't quite know what to make of him. | | | Even as his slim novel Sputnik Sweetheart (Alfred A. Knopf, $23,211 pages) tells a tale of personal loss and isolation, the nonfiction Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Vintage, $14, 366 pages) attempts to anatomize the soul of an entire culture. | | | He's never written anything more openly emotion, al than Sputnik Sweetheart, a surreal cross between a mystery and a romance that reads like an edgy riff on his seminal Norwegian Wood. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/cf_lamg/m1346/4_46/72610310/p1/article.jhtml
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| | LIFE WISE: 405 |
| | Fred Holden is the author of a book, |
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http://www.krma.org/six/lifewise/405.html
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| | Japanese Books @ DuffyBooks.com |
| | Very early edition in Japanese of this classic and rare book in a very nice dust jacket. | | | Overall a great copy of this fabulous book! | | | New York Carlton Press 1962 Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good+ jacket 1st Edition Inscribed By Author |
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http://duffybooks.com/Japanese.php
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Japanese Touch for Your Garden |
| | Although packed with lovely pictures, the book is straight-forward and bare-boned, giving you the essentials of what you need. | | | A guide by Christopher Locke, author Cluetrain Manifesto, Gonzo Mrktng, Bombast... | | | This book contains wonderful pictures and offers many ideas for a Japanese style garden or balcony. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770016611?v=glance
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| | Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents |
| | Oe is a sort of Japanese James Joyce: steeped in many languages and literatures, including English, French, Italian and Russian, he has a Japanese prose style so difficult and complex that he is more honored than read in his own country. | | | His major mature work, "The Silent Cry," published in 1967, is a highly symbolic story of two brothers in 1960 trying to recover and come to terms with their family's tumultuous history. | | | In "A Personal Matter," influenced by Oe's own life, the main character quits his job in a rage and takes a lover after he learns that his son is severely intellectually handicapped. |
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http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1994/1994g.html
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| | Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea |
| | The Japanese author of the book that became the basis for the musical 'The Last Empress' is in Seoul to donate the proceeds of the book to Koreans still living in Sakhalin, Russia, taken there by occupying Japanese as forced labor in the first half of this century. | | | Husako Tsunoda, who turns 85 this December, says that the book was possible because Koreans have been so kind to her. | | | She is often introduced as a nonfiction writer, author, and reporter, but says she isn't qualified for any of these titles. |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/199908/199908300459.html
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| | Japanese Dictionary |
| | This book is intended to be used by both English and Japanese students of either language. | | | Any positive statement in Japanese can be readily converted into an interrogative sentence by merely adding | | | R, as all Japanese language written words are written in syllables. |
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http://www.stockinformation.com/JAPDICT3.htm
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| | Mishima, Yukio on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Publication: Twentieth Century Literature; Author: Nemoto, Reiko Tachibana ; Source: MAGAZINES | | | Other important novels include the semiautobiographical Confessions of a Mask (1949; tr. | | | Mishima Literature 6 27 0247 Mishima unpublished work found in Yamanashi Pref. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/MishimaY1.asp
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| | Grits Is Groceries.: |
| | The bilingual edition of The Inscrutable Japanese by Japanese author Kagawa Hiroshi, in a section entitled "Strange Japanese Social Phenomena," discusses the question, "Why do Japanese women act so cute?" The explanation given is an interesting one. | | | In the parade of advertisements and comics, these images stand out over the images of strong, independent female beauty. | | | Japanese relationships in general tend to be codependent, insular, and hierarchical compared with those of Western societies, and those tendencies too may lead to emotional immaturity and a certain degree of role-playing, which were doubtlessly present long before the war. |
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http://savagepencil.typepad.com/confessions/2004/11/the_bilingual_e.html
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| | BUBL LINK: Japanese |
| | Divided into English, French, German, Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Tibetan and Icelandic texts. | | | Subjects: american literature - general, chinese language, european literature, german literature, greek literature, hebrew, iceland, japanese, text collections | | | Subjects: chinese language, dutch, esperanto, ethnic literature, hungarian, japanese, language learning, linguistics, portuguese, translating dictionaries |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/j/japanese.htm
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| | 13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese - About Author |
| | Featuring seven celebrated tales by Japanese masters of the short story, it provides students with all the back-up they need to start reading modern Japanese classics. | | | The cover, featuring Newton, Bell, Concorde and Arkwright's spinning-machine, is reproduced on the right. | | | Giles also appeared as a presenter in the video version of Japanese for Busy People and, together with AJALT (Association for Japanese Language Teaching), is co-author of the Video Guide. |
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http://www.speaking-japanese.com/author.html
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| | Results Lesson Plan Database National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies |
| | Students learn about the significance of the daruma, discuss other good luck symbols, create a paper mache daruma, and set a goal. | | | Kuroyanagi Tetsuko, comparative study, critical thinking, language skills, samurai, women | | | Presents activities, including an application of Mortimer Adler's "How to Read A Book" to the novel "Kokoro", discussion questions, and themes |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/scripts/LP/Index.cgi?sort=GRADE&results=
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| | Alsos: Journey to the Missouri |
| | The author absolves the Emperor from blame for the beginning of the war, and praises him for his role in concluding it. | | | This book provides the history of World War II from a Japanese perspective. | | | It was written by a Japanese author for the American public to explain the reasons Japan entered the war and was defeated, and to describe the efforts of some Japanese to surrender. |
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http://alsos.wlu.edu/information.aspx?id=960
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| | japanese canadian author: infinityessays.com- infinity essays, infinity book reports, infinity term papers |
| | For instance, there is a point in the tale where it says “With his stomach full, he began to feel drowsy.” Instead the author could have chosen to convey this through dialogue in the form. | | | Understand that dialogue is a tool used by the author to make the reader visualize things. | | | In this folktale about the three amulets, the rational reader would be left with several unanswered questions, but they are not important as they lesson still comes through. |
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http://www.infinityessays.com/term-papers/2842/japanese-canadian-author.html
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| | Book Reviews |
| | She is trying to fit into a society that will never fully accept her because she is Japanese-American, not pure bred Japanese. | | | She's good at what she does, but that doesn't mean things come easily for her. | | | Being able to speak the Japanese language fluently isn't enough. |
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http://www.overmydeadbody.com/kimono.htm
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| | Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea |
| | In particular Hwang said that the South Korean authorities were not taking him seriously which drove him to contemplate killing himself. | | | Hagiwara made the claim in the preface of a translation of Hwang's memoir "Hwang Jang-yeop's Memoir - Declaring War on Kim Jong Il," though it is not mentioned at all in the actual book. | | | The author says he broke his promise to Hwang, because of President Kim Dae-jung's government's treatment of the defector who "gave up everything for the sake of the country." |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200102/200102180154.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Dark stew of a plot stirs 'Miso Soup' |
| | Recent American movies are saturated with Japanese culture: Lost in Translation, Kill Bill and The Last Samurai. | | | If there was ever a time for Japanese authors to capitalize on an American love affair, it's now. | | | If you like noir, Miso is dark enough for those who want to expand their exposure to Japanese culture beyond sushi, comics and video games. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2004-02-25-miso-soup_x.htm
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| | John Galsworthy Biography |
| | A prolific novelist, playwright and short-story writer, Galsworthy is considered one of the most successful English authors of the early twentieth century. | | | Tell a friend about The Japanese Quince eNotes with summary, essays, analysis, and more. | | | Get total access to The Japanese Quince eNotes with the: |
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http://www.enotes.com/japanese-quince/34252
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| | The Japanese WebLab by Francis Britto |
| | (The author calls her site "Network Sophia"--though with a disclaimer she has nothing to do with Sophia University!) | | | Meant for persons who know nothing about the Japanese language. | | | This newspaper is intended for Japanese middle-school students. |
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http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~britto/weblab-j.html
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| | NPR : Ghosts, Chills and 'Dark Water' from Japan |
| | A scene from the American version of Dark Water, starring Jennifer Connelly. | | | Dark Water, starring Jennifer Connelly as a single mom who moves into a suspiciously cheap apartment with her daughter, bears many of the elements that have become hallmarks of the subgenre. | | | Morning Edition, July 11, 2005 · Koji Suzuki, Japanese author behind 2002's super-creepy The Ring, has two more American film adaptations of his work in theaters this year: The Ring Two opened in March, and Dark Water opens this weekend. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4735733&sourceCode=RSS
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| | Watson |
| | DONOR Arms and Armor copy: Gift of Hiroshi Namiki. | | | NOTE In Japanese ; title romanized and translated (Handicraft III : | | | NOTE Japanese; list of plates also in English. |
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| | Amazon.com Books: New & used textbooks, biographies, children's books, science fiction, cookbooks & more |
| | Our lists of the month's hottest new fiction and nonfiction are topped by The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst's gorgeous Booker Prize-winning novel of a young gay man in Thatcherite London, and Magical Thinking, a daring and funny collection of true stories from Running with Scissors author Augusten Burroughs. | | | Defying the orthodoxy that teachers, to be more well rounded, should work to strengthen their weaknesses, this book, drawing on research by the Gallup Organization, maintains... | | | Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11) |
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| | M2 Best Books : Teen love story becomes biggest selling novel by Japanese author.(Kyoichi Katayama)(Brief Article) @ ... |
| | 'Sekai No Chushin De, Ai Wo Sakebu' (Cry Out for Love at the Heart of the World) by Kyoichi Katayama has become the biggest selling novel ever by a Japanese author. | | | Read 'M2 Best Books: Teen love story becomes biggest selling novel by Japanese author.(Kyoichi Katayama)(Brief Article)' with a FREE Trial for instant access » | | | Start / M / M2 Best Books / May 07, 2004 / Teen love story becomes biggest selling novel by Japanese author.(Kyoichi Katayama)(Brief Article) |
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http://static.highbeam.com/m/m2bestbooks/may072004/teenlovestorybecomesbiggestsellingnovelbyjapanesea/index.html
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| | List of Japanese authors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is an alphabetical list of authors who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language. | | | Authors are listed by the native order of Japanese names, family name followed by given name to ensure consistency even though some authors are known for their western-ordered name. | | | This page was last modified 18:47, 21 July 2005. |
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| | Techdirt:Obscure Japanese Author Flattered That Dylan Used His Words |
| | Techdirt:Obscure Japanese Author Flattered That Dylan Used His Words | | | Obscure Japanese Author Flattered That Dylan Used His Words | | | A fascinating story about an obscure Japanese author who apparently was the inspiration for a recent Bob Dylan song - though, he isn't credited. |
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030709/0126211.shtml
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| | Terada Torahiko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As an author, he studied under Natsume Soseki, who was a teacher at his high school in Kumamoto. | | | Terada is best known for his numerous essays. | | | Terada Torahiko (寺田 寅彦 Terada Torahiko, November 28, 1878 - December 31, 1935) is a Japanese physicist and author. |
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http://www.bucyrus.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Terada_Torahiko
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| | Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents |
| | In his magisterial study of Japanese literature, "Dawn to the West," Donald Keene relates that Kawabata not only read the translation of "Ulysses," which Ito Sei and his collaborators introduced to the Japanese public in 1930, but bought a copy of the English text and compared the two. | | | The short story was Kawabata's preferred length, and though it is a cliche to compare the results to haiku poems or the image executed with a single flowing brushstroke, there is no question that he felt most at home in forms where more is implied than stated. | | | The pieces fuse Western modernist experimentalism with the indirection of Japanese statement. |
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http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1988/1988o.html
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| | Yoshiko Uchida |
| | Uchida was to later write about her experiences there and the many other difficulties she had in establishing her sense of both Japanese ethnicity and American citizenship. | | | Yuki must come to terms with her own ethnicity as well as her status as an American. | | | This understanding only strengthens her status as being Japanese and American. |
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http://www.clarion.edu/edu-humn/libsci/buchanancoursesyl/uchida2.htm
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| | Oda Sakunosuke - Japanese author |
| | Their writing stands in contrast to the tradition and morals of the ultra-nationalistic literature that was critically and state condoned at the time. | | | Contemporary forms of popular culture, like the traditional forms, provide not only entertainment but also an escape for the contemporary Japanese from the problems of an industrial world. | | | In 1983, under the sponsorship of the Osaka Bungaku Shinkoukai, a literary prize was established in Oda�s name to commemorate the 70th anniversary of his birth with the aim of carrying on the long tradition of Kansai Literature. |
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http://www.japan-101.com/culture/oda_sakunosuke.htm
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| | Yoshikawa Eiji - Japanese author |
| | In the following years he published stories in various periodicals published by Kodansha, which recognized him as their number one author. | | | His experiences in the earthquake strengthened his resolve to make writing his career. | | | The Japanese publisher Kodansha currently publishes an 80-volume series: Yoshikawa Eiji Rekishi Jidai Bunko, or Eiji Yoshikawa's Historical Fiction in Paperback. |
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http://www.japan-101.com/art/yoshikawa_eiji.htm
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