#paperback #japanese #language #reference 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This book is intended to help you easily determine your Japanese name and learn the most suitable way to write it with Japanese Kanji. Japan more than most countries, places an emphasis on harmoniously blending in with others. In fact, it has not one, but two proverbs similar to the Western, "When in Rome…:" Go ni itte wa, go ni shigagae, or "Obey the customs of the village you enter;" and Deru kugi wa utareru, or "The nail that sticks up will be hammered." This suggests, then that the Westerner who manages to leap across the cultural chasm and adapt his or her name to the vernacular is taking the first step toward a happy and productive stay among the Japanese. Even though an English name might not have an equivalent Japanese name, Write Your Name in Kanji will help you understand what goes into selecting a name, and will present a number of choices so that you can pick the most appropriate characters to represent your own name in the Japanese language. In doing so, this book may even help give you a better understanding of your original English (or other) name. As you will see with this Kanji book, you may consider several different Japanese equivalents for your name and select the most appropriate to your tastes and character. If you are not satisfied with the meaning carried by your original English name, chances are that you can find a name approximating it phonetically but containing a fabulous meaning that your English name lacks. You may decide to use one of the "attention–getting transcriptions" to amuse your friends or deliver such an unforgettable first impression that new business associates will never forget you. If you stick to the original meaning of your English name, you may also find a corresponding one in fascinating kanji. If you prefer a simple phonetic transcription, you can simply elect to render your name in its katakana or hiragana equivalent. Once you've selected a name that appeals to you, you might even have it engraved into a hanko (a seal or stamp always required in lieu of a handwritten signature for official or business–related documents) and officially register it in Japan. You will be issued a certificate legitimizing your seal, and the characters it bears, as legally valid and binding on any official document you affix it to in Japan. This would certainly make an impression with your Japanese friends or associates!

Write Your Name in Kanji

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2,000 Basic Japanese Characters Systematically Arranged for Learning and Reference

Essential Kanji

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A 1988 Viking 
VGC - Dust cover tear back at bottom corner & line across ~ Please see pics for details.
412 pgs #hardcover #fiction #Japanese #family #WWII 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Japanese Family After WWII

The left-at-home residents and ranchers of Luster, Wyoming, and the Japanese-American inmates of nearby Heart Mountain Relocation Camp contend with colliding political and personal circumstances

Heart Mountain

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#hardcover #fiction #japanese #yafiction #thriller 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

"In Japan, a teenage boy with narcolepsy is able to steal the thoughts of supernatural beings in his sleep, and uses this ability to defeat a mountain demon that's causing a string of suicides at his school"--

The Monster on the Road Is Me

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Hardcover no dust jacket. Bumped corners. #hardcover #warheroes #japanese #kenmochizuki #wwii #americanhistory #childrens #bullying #picturebook #livingbook

Heroes

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#paperback #beauty #peace #japanese #health #natural #nonfiction 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Natural Japanese Health and Beauty Secrets Revealed

Inner Peace, Outer Beauty

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18th printing, 1990; has light wear to cover/edges, else book is clean/tight. It is in excellent condition. #paperback #japanese #
Childrens 

A collection of stories with a Japanese flavor which will delight any child in any country, and at the same time, arouse a sympathetic understanding to the culture and ways of another land.

Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories

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#historicalfiction #WWII #japanese #relationships #loveaffair yellowing of pages, but spine and cover in great condition, see pics

Snow Falling on Cedars

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#fiction #suspensethrillers #suspense #thriller #paperback #japanese

A Novel of Suspense

Shinju

#paperback #fiction #brandnewbooks #historicalfiction #bestseller #historical #instagramfave #japanese 

A Novel

From the internationally bestselling and beloved author of the critically acclaimed Boy Swallows Universe, a mesmerizing, uplifting novel of adventure and unlikely friendships in World War II Australia--calling to mind The Wizard of Oz as directed by Baz Luhrmann. Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot who's abandoned his post. With messages from the skies above to guide them towards treasure, but foes close on their trail, the trio will encounter the beauty and vastness of the Northern Territory and survive in ways they never thought possible. A story about the gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth, and secrets we bury inside ourselves, Trent Dalton's brilliantly imagined novel is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, of bones and blue heavens. It is a love letter to Australia and an ode to the art of looking up--a buoyant and magical tale, filled to the brim with warmth, wit, and wonder.

All Our Shimmering Skies

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#paperback #fiction #thestrangenessofbeauty #lydiaminatoya #historicalfiction #japanese #seattle #preworldwar 

"Minatoya offers a tenderly packaged gift. Unwrapping it is a pleasure." --Austin Chronicle


A quietly daring exploration of art, family, culture, and conscience, as three generations of women, American and Japanese, face a strained reunion in pre-World War II Japan. Etsuko and her six-year-old motherless niece return from jazz-age Seattle to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko's mysterious samurai mother. With Japanese militarism mounting, the women must learn to make peace in an absorbing tale where mothers are childless, warriors are pacifists, and beauty is found in the common and the small.

Strangeness of Beauty

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#paperback #japanese #family #picturebook #childrens #kids

The youngest of three sisters in a Japanese family gets ready for a day at preschool.

Rise and Shine, Mariko-Chan!

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#hardcover #historical #japanese #japaneseamerican 

Farewell to Manzanar

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#fiction #friendship #worldwar2 #japanese

The sound of life and everything

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Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minimal wear. #hardcover #japanese #intermentcamp #topaz #historicalfiction #childrens #kids #livingbook #homeschool #aapi

English and Japanese Translation 

While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Centre during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrols in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

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#fiction #cartoons #comics #hardcover #japanesebook #Japanese comics #ultraman

Ultraman Hero: 100 secrets

A 1980 Charles Tuttle HTF
- Surprisingly unusual but packed with charm a beautifully written Japanese story.
Fair ~ Has some underlining on pages (please see pics) otherwise pretty nice cond.
119 pgs
GR - Rating 3.6 #paperback #japanese #historical 

Modern Classic 

The Wild Geese 

#hardcover #poetry #japenesepoetry #japan #lovepoems #japanese

Drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources--including the imperial collections of the Manyoshu and Kokinshu--the poems in this collection are some of the greatest love poems from the Japanese tradition. The poems range in tone from the spiritual longing of an isolated monk to the erotic ecstasy of a court princess--but share the extraordinary simplicity and luminosity of language that marks Kenneth Rexroth's verse style. An introduction by the poet and translator Sam Hamill, the editor of this collection, and short biographies of the poets are included.

The Shambhala Library is a series of exquisitely designed and produced cloth editions of the world's spiritual and literary classics, both ancient and modern. Perfect for collecting or as gifts, each volume features a sewn binding, decorative endsheets, and a ribbon marker--a delightful-to-hold 4 #65533; x 6 #65533; trim size.

Love Poems from the Japanese

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#paperback #japanese #cultural #historical #fiction #geisha #womanlifestyle #feminism #bestseller 

Bestseller, Historical Fiction

Memoirs of a Geisha 

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019

A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing look at the aftermath of World War II by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata.

World War II has ended, but while America has won the war, twelve-year-old Hanako feels lost. To her, the world, and her world, seems irrevocably broken.

America, the only home she's ever known, imprisoned then rejected her and her family--and thousands of other innocent Americans--because of their Japanese heritage, because Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Japan, the country they've been forced to move to, the country they hope will be the family's saving grace, where they were supposed to start new and better lives, is in shambles because America dropped bombs of their own--one on Hiroshima unlike any other in history. And Hanako's grandparents live in a small village just outside the ravaged city.

The country is starving, the black markets run rampant, and countless orphans beg for food on the streets, but how can Hanako help them when there is not even enough food for her own brother?

Hanako feels she could crack under the pressure, but just because something is broken doesn't mean it can't be fixed. Cracks can make room for gold, her grandfather explains when he tells her about the tradition of kintsukuroi--fixing broken objects with gold lacquer, making them stronger and more beautiful than ever. As she struggles to adjust to find her place in a new world, Hanako will find that the gold can come in many forms, and family may be hers.

A Place to Belong

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#paperback #manga #anime #comics #japanese written in Japanese and printed in Japan

Nickelodeon

Japanese language issue of CLAMP’s X/1999 manga #japanese

X  [Asuka C] Vol. 15 (Ekkusu  [Asuka C]) (in Japanese)

#fiction #paperback #bitterandsweet #historicalfiction #hotelonthecorner #jamieford #japanese #war 

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered in Seattle, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.

Nobuo Sato

Write Your Name in Kanji

P. G. O'Neill

Essential Kanji

Gretel Ehrlich

Heart Mountain

J. P. Romney

The Monster on the Road Is Me

Ken Mochizuki; Dom Lee

Heroes

J. P. Romney

The Monster on the Road Is Me

Michelle D. Leigh

Inner Peace, Outer Beauty

Florence Sakade (Editor)

Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories

David Guterson

Snow Falling on Cedars

Laura John Rowland

Shinju

Trent Dalton

All Our Shimmering Skies

Lydia Minatoya

Strangeness of Beauty

Chiyoko Tomioka; Yoshiharu Tsuchida (Illustrator)

Rise and Shine, Mariko-Chan!

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston

Farewell to Manzanar

Krista Van Dolzer

The sound of life and everything

Amy Lee-Tai (Text by); Felicia Hoshino (Illustrator); Marc Akio Lee (Text by)

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

Unknown

Ultraman Hero: 100 secrets

Ogai Mori

The Wild Geese

Sam Hamill; Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)

Love Poems from the Japanese

Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

Cynthia Kadohata; Julia Kuo (Illustrator)

A Place to Belong

Dowman Sayman

Nickelodeon

CLAMP

X [Asuka C] Vol. 15 (Ekkusu [Asuka C]) (in Japanese)

Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet