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Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With the help of a new free audio app, this revised and updated bilingual visual dictionary will help you improve your Japanese vocabulary and pronunciation by seeing and hearing more than 7,000 terms. Full-color images with detailed labels display all the elements of everyday life--from the home and office to sports, music, nature, and the countries of the world--with boxed features on key nouns, verbs, and useful phrases. Current words and phrases...
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Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delicious, delightful, and super-cute . . . Yum-Yum Bento is back! These tasty, healthy lunches are all the rage in Japan, where mothers create them as expressions of love and kids can’t wait to gobble them up. With 50 all-new seasonal-themed bento lunches, this follow-up to Quirk’s favorite Yum-Yum Bento Box is the book moms and kids have been asking for. The smile-inspiring meal plans include walrus pals in winter, a tulip trio in spring, smiling...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Biography of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston relating her experiences of living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II and how it has influenced her life.
On title page: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated guide to the fantastic world of Japanese myths: retelling the stories and exploring how Japanese mythology has changed over time, as new gods, heroes, and spirits have entered the canon. While people around the world love Japan’s cultural exports―from manga and anime to Zen―not everyone is familiar with Japan’s unique mythology that shapes these interests, which is enriched by Shinto, Buddhism, and regional folklore. The Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin engine Curtiss-Wright C-46 plane suffered engine failure and crashed over the mountainous, remote border country. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet double-agent posing as an OSS operative, and General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people on the doomed aircraft...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
An epic multigenerational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation"--
"From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later,...
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