Japanland

Japanland
Author: Karin Muller
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2006-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 162336163X

During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller invites the reader along for a uniquely American odyssey into the ancient heart of modern Japan. Broad in scope and deftly observed by an author with a rich visual sense of people and place, Japanland is as beguiling as this colorful country of contradictions.

Japan Land of Beauty & Tradition

Japan Land of Beauty & Tradition
Author: Philip Sandoz
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1996-05-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1462916805

This Japan travel guide features dozens of beautiful photographs and insightful commentary. Japan: Land of Beauty and Tradition takes the reader on a sweeping tour of this always enticing and often surprising country. From the gaudy exuberance of the Sensoji temple to the tranquility of Ryoanji's stone garden, from Kyushu's tropical shores to Hokkaido's arctic slopes, from rice fields and iris gardens to castles and monasteries, this book presents page after page of graphic testimony that Japan continues to be a land of exquisite beauty and rich tradition. Dozens of stunning, full-color photographs by one of Japan's leading landscape photographers are accompanied by a text that provides concise historical and cultural descriptions of the delightfully varied islands that make up Japan.

A Voyage ToJapanland

A Voyage ToJapanland
Author: Terry Ireland
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017-04-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0244301379

A collection of poems of the imagination ranging from Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculation and Humour to Ecology.

Bargaining with Japan

Bargaining with Japan
Author: Leonard James Schoppa
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780231105910

Schoppa documents how U.S. pressure has been misapplied in the past, insisting on the need for a strategy more informed about internal Japanese politics. While a strategy reliant on brute force is liable to backfire, he argues, one which works with domestic politics in Japan can succeed.

The New Yorker

The New Yorker
Author: Harold Wallace Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1184
Release: 2005-11
Genre: American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN:

WA: The Essence of Japanese Design

WA: The Essence of Japanese Design
Author: Stefania Piotti
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780714866963

Explore the enduring beauty of Japanese design through some 250 objects, ranging from bento boxes, calligraphy brushes, and Shoji sliding doors to Noguchi’s Akari lamp, the iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bootle, and a modern‐day kimono designed by Issey Miyake. Printed on craft paper and bound in the traditional Japanese style, WA features stunning, full‐page illustrations and an introduction by MUJI art director Kenya Hara.

Governing Ocean Resources

Governing Ocean Resources
Author: Jon M. van Dyke
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2013-05-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004252487

This collective work of a renowned group of scholars, Governing Ocean Resources: New Challenges and Emerging Regimes, edited by Jon M. Van Dyke, Sherry P. Broder,Seokwoo Lee and Jin-Hyun Paik, examines the current state of the Law of the Sea today, offers a variety of new approaches to the field, and serves as a tribute to the late Judge Choon-ho Park, whose profound depth of learning and indomitable spirit of optimism regarding the possibilities of reform and improvement comprised an immense contribution to the study of the Law of the Sea.

The Market Economy as a Social System

The Market Economy as a Social System
Author: Hiroto Tsukada
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811318379

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is discussed first; and group orientation instead of individualism, and a balance of negotiating power instead of a veil of ignorance are presented as new answers to this question. Based on this new understanding of rulemaking, three important practical rules are subsequently discussed: the rule of distribution of land and other natural resources, including the question of natural talent or who should bear the costs of children’s education; the rule of distribution of products; and what motives support our acts of kindness. These rules are all dealt with from a shared perspective, viewing society as a single integrated construct. Equal distribution of land, not private but public payment of education fees, strengthening employees’ bargaining power, and moving toward nobility-based kindness are put forward as central answers. By addressing critical questions on social rules and proposing answers, this book provides reliable principles to fall back on in our daily lives, and in our rapidly changing, globalized world.