Tokyo Black

Author : Andrew Warren
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781975656652
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Black written by Andrew Warren and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A burned spy must stop a deadly cult from igniting global conflict... Thomas Caine lives in the shadows. Betrayed and left for dead, he has put his past as a government assassin behind him. Now he lives off the grid, in the seedy underworld of Pattaya, Thailand. But when local gangsters set him up for a crime he didn't commit, his old CIA masters make him an offer he can't refuse: rot in a hellish Thai prison, or accept a dangerous mission in Tokyo, Japan. As he hunts the neon-lit city for a CIA asset's missing daughter, he quickly learns there is more to his assignment than meets the eye. Looming in the shadows is Tokyo Black; a right wing terrorist cult, whose members demonstrate their loyalty by burning their yakuza tattoos from their skin. Can Thomas Caine defeat this fanatical enemy, before they ignite an international conflict that kills thousands? Tokyo Black is a high-octane thrill-ride packed with gun battles, car chases, fascinating characters and exotic locations. Reviews say "Up there with Lee Child and Vince Flynn! A heart stopping roller-coaster ride! Move over Jason Bourne... Here comes Thomas Caine!" Click the Buy Now button and enter the thrilling world of Thomas Caine today!

Author : Aviad E. Raz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173167
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riding the Black Ship written by Aviad E. Raz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 over 16 million people visited Tokyo Disneyland, making it the most popular of the many theme parks in Japan. Since it opened in 1983, Tokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture, particularly the "company manual." By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Aviad Raz shows that it is much more an example of successful importation, adaptation, and domestication and that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese even while marketing itself as foreign. Rather than being an agent of Americanization, Tokyo Disneyland is a simulated "America" showcased by and for the Japanese. It is an "America" with a Japanese meaning.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190452668
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo A Cultural History written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 190495586X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the backstreets of districts that have inspired the setting for science fiction novels are wooden temples, fox shrines, mouldering steles and statues of Bodhisattvas that evoke a different age. The point where time past, present and future coexist, Tokyo's thirst for the contemporary is moderated by nostalgia for the past. As an urban laboratory where the cultures of the East and West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms, Tokyo embraces sudden transitions, constant flux and transformation. The courtesans of its pleasure quarters inspired Edo-period woodblock artists, novelists and poets. In a later age, its experimental artists, feminist writers and Modern Girls of 1920s Ginza both shocked and electrified the capital. Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel through rise of a merchant class whose wealth transformed Edo into a home for artists, writers and performers. In contemporary Tokyo he explores the unique crossbred cultures of taste that make the giant conurbation one of the most exciting and creative cities in the world. * City of Literature, Theatre and Art: The print masters Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro; the Kabuki theatre; authors Nagai Kafu, Tanizaki Junichiro, Mishima Yukio, Murukami Haruki; foreign writers Angela Carter, William Gibson and Donald Richie. * City of Architecture: From the fortifications of Edo Castle, great temples and shrines, via the western hybrids of the Meiji era to the post-modernist skyscrapers, giant neon screens and digitalized surfaces of today s city. * City of Calamities: The great fires of the Edo period; floods, famines and typhoons; the 1923 Earthquake, coups and rising militarism in the 1930s; the fire bombings of the Second World War; the 1995 subway gas attack by members of a death cult and the fatalism of residents living on one of the earth's largest fault lines.

Author : Hiromitsu Hattori
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642006086
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence written by Hiromitsu Hattori and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arti?cial intelligence has recently been re-energized to provide the clues needed to resolve complicated problems. AI is also expected to play a central role in enhancing a wide variety of daily activities. JSAI (The Japanese Society for Arti?cial Intelligence) is responsible for boosting the activities of AI researchers in Japan, and their series of annual conferences o?ers attractive forums for the exposition of the latest achievements and inter-group communication. In the past, the best papers of the conferences were published in the LNAI series. This book consists of award papers from the 22nd annual conference of the JSAI (JSAI 2008) and selected papers from the three co-located workshops. Eight papers were selected among more than 400 presentations at the conference and 18 papers were selected from the 34 presentations at the co-located wo- shops; Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5 (LENLS 2008), the 2nd International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2008), and the First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement (LIBM 2008). The award papers from JSAI 2008 were selected through a r- orous selection process. In the process, papers recommended by session chairs, session commentators, and PC members were carefully reviewed, before the ?nal decision was made.

Author : Hideo Furukawa
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Tokyo written by Hideo Furukawa and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s parks hides a darker motive… At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them. But Tokyo being the city it is, random encounters inevitably take place – a naïve book collector, mistaken for a French speaker, is drawn into a world he never knew existed; a woman seeking psychiatric help finds herself in a taxi with an older man wanting to share his own peculiar revelations; a depressed divorcee accepts an unexpected lunch invitation to try Thai food for the very first time… The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other people’s company. As one character puts it, ‘The world is full of delicious things, you know.’

Author : WAttention Co., Ltd.
Publisher : ゴマブックス株式会社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book WAttention Tokyo VOL.10 written by WAttention Co., Ltd. and published by ゴマブックス株式会社. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 銀座でのショッピングやグルメを満喫できる英語のガイド本！ WAttention Tokyo VOL.10は銀座特集！ 銀座で体験できるグルメや、ショッピングの情報（英文）が満載です。 銀座エリアの他にも東京で味わえるグルメの紹介、秋葉原でのメイド カフェ体験や、ちょっと遠出して富士5合目を訪れるツアー情報など も掲載しています。また渋谷スタートで気軽に楽しめる東京半日散歩 などのうれしい情報も。 東京を旅行する外国人や、外国人の友達を東京案内するときに役立 つ一冊です。 ※一部を除いて、すべて英文です。 ※日本文化の魅力を世界に発信する「WAttention Tokyo」事業は東京都中小企業振興公社の推奨事業です。 This is the guide for people who want to enjoy shopping and delicious food in Ginza all by English! WAttention Tokyo VOL.1 is the special edition for Ginza!? It is full of English information all about Ginza. Besides, you can check the news about the other district’s famous food, the maid caf? in Akihabara or even the information how to get to the Mount Fuji. In addition, what about use half a day to walk around Tokyo from that famous Shibuya. This book will be useful for the foreigners taking a trip in Tokyo or people who have foreigner friends and want to introduce them Japan. ※「WAttention Tokyo」 works on promotion and spreading the charming points of Japanese culture. It is one of the recommend projects of Tokyo’s small and medium-sized enterprises corporation. 本?是?外国游客?撰的在?京?座?物、品?美食的英文指南?！WAttention Tokyo vol.1是?座??！??收?了在?座品?美食及?物的有利信息（英文）。除?座之外，?将??介??京其他地方的美食、秋叶原的女仆??、及稍?一点的探?富士山5合目的?光情?。更有从?谷出?，悠?舒?的?京半日游的信息。?于来?京游??光的外国游客来?，是不可多得的一本?光指南。 ※本?文字?英文（包含一部分日文）。 ※将日本文化推广到世界的「WAttention Tokyo」是?京都中小企?振?公社的推广事?。

Author : Heide Imai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317363647
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Roji written by Heide Imai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese urban alleyway, which was once part of people’s personal spatial sphere and everyday life has been transformed by diverse and competing interests. Marginalised through the emergence of new forms of housing and public spaces, re-appropriated by different fields, and re-invented by the contemporary urban design discourse, the social meaning attached to the roji is being re-interpreted by individuals, subcultures and new social movements. The book will introduce and discuss examples of urban practices which take place within the dynamic urban landscape of contemporary Tokyo to portray the life cycle of an urban form being rediscovered, commodified and lost as physical space.

Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 : 9783958294134
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tatsuo Suzuki: Friction / Tokyo Streets written by and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book embodies Japanese street photography now. Composed of black-and-white photos taken throughout Tokyo's bustling wards, Friction / Tokyo Streets reveals unexpected meaning and beauty in the mundane, be it in an image of a girl navigating a zebra crossing, cropped legs standing on a subway platform, shifting reflections in a store window, or a pigeon caught mid-flight. Suzuki captures the spontaneous gestures, glimpses and abstractions that comprise the best street photography. Yet as the book's title reveals, it is the con - flicting and contradictory energies of the street that lie at the core of his project: "Through my own eyes ... I would like to express the tension, the edged frustration, the taut atmosphere and the feelings that beat, inherent in the city." 'No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.' -Garry Winogrand