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THE JAPANESE INFLUENCE IN AMERICA is the first major book to explore the historic background and define the impact of Japanese ideas, aesthetic ideals, and art forms upon the United States. Contrary to the prevalent notion that the current vogue for things Japanese is a relatively recent development, Clay Lancaster demonstrates conclusively, and with copious pictorial evidence, that Japan has played an important part in American cultural life for...
6) A true novel
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A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan
A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession...
A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession...
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Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Berlin, and Connecticut, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront the mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old. The novel opens when Yuki is sixteen and her father is posted back to Japan. Though she and her family have been living as outsiders...
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"Vivid storytelling brings World War II history to life and places readers in the shoes of the people who experienced the United States' Japanese internment camps. On the heels of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. Through this order, more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent, many of them U.S. citizens, were forced to relocate to military camps for the duration...
18) El amigo nuevo
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A group of children make a new friend and learn about a different culture when a Japanese family moves into the neighborhood.
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