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Japanese for Travellers: A Journey Through Modern Japan

Katie Kitamura

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Description:A Japanese-American raised in California, 24-year old Katie Kitamura returns to Japan to discover the country she left behind.Travelling across this foreign landscape, she visits middle-class gambling halls, fight stadiums and giant shopping meccas, luxury care homes and cramped apartments housing four generations under a single roof. And she wonders in which version of modern Japan she might have belonged.Defined by its adventurous youth culture, but with the fastest-ageing population in the world, renowned for its strict social code, but producing the black-comedy violence of Battle Royale films, the Japan she discovers is an often contradictory land of Godzilla toys and war memorials, of futuristic manga characters and brightly coloured vending machines.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Japanese for Travellers: A Journey Through Modern Japan. To get started finding Japanese for Travellers: A Journey Through Modern Japan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 272

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin

Release: 2007

ISBN: 0141018542

Description: A Japanese-American raised in California, 24-year old Katie Kitamura returns to Japan to discover the country she left behind.Travelling across this foreign landscape, she visits middle-class gambling halls, fight stadiums and giant shopping meccas, luxury care homes and cramped apartments housing four generations under a single roof. And she wonders in which version of modern Japan she might have belonged.Defined by its adventurous youth culture, but with the fastest-ageing population in the world, renowned for its strict social code, but producing the black-comedy violence of Battle Royale films, the Japan she discovers is an often contradictory land of Godzilla toys and war memorials, of futuristic manga characters and brightly coloured vending machines.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Japanese for Travellers: A Journey Through Modern Japan. To get started finding Japanese for Travellers: A Journey Through Modern Japan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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