Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

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They are stories that bend and break the boundaries of social expectations and human experiences, and in doing so they reveal the fatal flaws in all of us. His newest housekeeper, our narrator, forms a unique and lasting bond with the professor, and the mathematician even develops a paternal relationship with the housekeeper’s young son. One of the most famous Catholics of Japan is Shusaku Endo, who wrote the novel Silence, inspired by real-world events and people. Both have new-found baggage and bring it with them to a home that is being changed by the tides of modernity. Eiji Yoshikawa’s Taiko is the definitive, dramatized retelling of this period of history that would change the fate of Japan forever.

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It’s a book about change, both personal and national; a brutal and harsh novel but a work of true mastery. Seishi Yokomizo was Japan’s Agatha Christie: a crime and mystery author who developed his own Poirot in Kosuke Kindaichi. The Paleolithic Period in Japan is variously dated from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago, although the argument has been made for a Lower Paleolithic culture prior to 35,000 bce.Because they had an agricultural civilization, the population of the Yayoi began to grow rapidly and ultimately overwhelmed the Jōmon people, natives of the Japanese archipelago who were hunter-gatherers. On another journey to scenic spots, Hiromitsu and Sandy share a quiet moment and kiss each other, eventually having sex again. All 11 of the stories within are open to interpretation, however, leaving readers with tantalizing loose threads that are likely to draw them back for several more bites at the cherry.

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How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it' - and The Japanese.It’s a dark thriller that escalates further and further across hundreds of tightly written and tautly stretched pages of narrative. Haruki Murakami is easily Japan’s most popular living novelist, often predicted to win the Nobel Prize but, as of yet, always missing out. The story follows Bird, a sharp individual whose failing marriage is thrown into further disarray after his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.