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Strange but true stories from Japan / by Jack Seward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seward, Jack.
- Series:
- Tuttle classics.
- Tuttle classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Japanese--Anecdotes.
- National characteristics, Japanese.
- Japan--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--Anecdotes.
- Japan--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Strange but true
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Strange But True Stories from Japan is a fascinating collection of vignettes, ranging from historical to the personal. Here you will be exposed to the goings-on of Americans serving time in Japanese prisons and the many who claimed the identity of Tokyo Rose.In this eclectic and, well, strange, book you'll relive-from a distance-Kamakura's hara-kiri bloodshed and discover the surprising fate of the armless geisha, Tsuma-kichi. Seward also weaves touching memoir pieces between chapters that recount hilarious instances of fractured English and shocking-to-the-average-American
- Contents:
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Lionhearted Women; 2 Americans Serving Time in Japanese Prisons; 3 Phallic Follies; 4 The Mass Hara-kiri at Kamaura; 5 A Second Israel?; 6 An Unusual Character from the Past; 7 Three Extraordinary Geisha; 8 Children at War; 9 One or Two Dozen Tokyo Roses; 10 Xmas Paint Your Harts; 11 Manga: The Literature of the Nation?; 12 The Reincarnation of Jesus Christ in Japan?; 13 Night Crawling, Eel Traps, and Retreaded Hymens; 14 Gun Control, Japanese Style; 15 Alexander Romanov: Grand Duke or Great Comedian?; 16 Z-Z-Z-Z
- 17 A Kitten Battles the Traffic at the ligura-cho Intersection18 What Food These Morsels Be; 19 An American Apostate Humanizes the Emperor; 20 The Supreme Hero of Modern Japan; 21 The First American Teacher of English in Japan; 22 Deadly Metal into the Abdomen; 23 Japan Tests an Atom Bomb
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-4629-0030-5
- OCLC:
- 746746826
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