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After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara - all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest - moved to Hiroshima, their mother's ancestral home. Eager to go back to his own land - America - Harry returned in the late 1930s. Then came Pearl Harbor. Despite being sent to an internment camp, Harry dutifully volunteered to serve his country. Back in Hiroshima, his brothers, Frank and Pierce, became soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army.

Discover the timeless art of bonsai, and embark on a journey that reaches deep into the soul of miniature trees with "Mastering Miniatures," a comprehensive guide that unlocks the mysteries and reveals the beauty of this ancient practice. Immerse yourself in a captivating exploration that combines history, art, science, and philosophy, all while guiding you through the quiet, nurturing process of cultivating your bonsai masterpieces. This book opens with a mesmerizing dive into the origins of bonsai. Uncover how the elegant dance of nature and nurture traversed from the mountainsides of ...

It's Christmas Eve. And a Wednesday. John Hark has few friends, no job and no prospects. Since leaving the marines, he’s found little to motivate him beyond his martial arts training. His girlfriend has left him, his sister harasses him, and his best friend is stuck somewhere in Atlanta traffic. John settles in for a subdued Christmas Eve of video games in his lousy apartment with his tabby cat Reese. But neighbors have gone missing, lights are cutting in and out, and a major snowstorm is brewing outside. It seems this night can't get any worse. Until an assassin attacks John in his ...

On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze of Tokyo’s Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to find a newborn kitten, just the size of her palm, dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii, and so begins an ineffable bond.

The New Ramen Noodle Revival. Get your copy of the best and most unique Ramen recipes from BookSumo Press! Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply. In this book we focus on Ramen. Asian Ramen Noodle Recipes is a complete set of simple but very unique Ramen recipes. You will find that even though the recipes are simple, the tastes are quite amazing. Besides recipes you will learn about the following: A Guide to Japanese Noodle Mastery The Importance of Ramen in ...

In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. This particular coffee shop is like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and seemingly appears at random to adrift young people at crucial junctions in their lives. It's also run by talking cats.

In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea during a training exercise, killing half her crew. Coming to the rescue is the USS Sculpin, in many ways the Squalus’s twin. As their oxygen supply dwindles, the remaining crew aboard the Squalus are saved in a time-consuming, white-knuckle operation. Eventually the sunken submarine is raised, repaired, and returned to duty, with a new name: the Sailfish.

Murder, mystery and mayhem! From an eccentric Clinton County puppetmaster whose marionettes were so lifelike that some believed they were made of flesh and blood, to a haunted lumber camp in McKean County, to an unfortunate Northumberland County veteran who risked death at every turn because of his uncanny resemblance to John Wilkes Booth, Pennsylvania has always been home of some of the world’s most intriguing people and places. Volume 3 of Pennsylvania Oddities features thirty remarkably strange, but true, stories. There’s the unidentified suicide victim who died in Perry County, ...

In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march.

Bold Venture tells the nearly forgotten story of the American airmen who flew perilous combat missions over Hong Kong during the Second World War.

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.

Introduction The katana is more than a weapon—it’s a legacy etched in steel, sharpened by centuries of discipline and spiritual resolve. For many, it is a breathtaking display piece, admired from behind glass and revered as a relic of a bygone age. But to truly understand the katana is to realize it was never meant to simply sit still. It was designed to move—to cut, to defend, to honor. In the hands of a samurai, it embodied character, code, and courage. This book is a journey through time, metallurgy, philosophy, and technique. We’ll explore how the katana came to be, how it was ...

Alex’s guide makes buying and importing foreign vehicles simple and straightforward. He remembers what it was like feeling lost and not knowing anything about delving into the Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) world. He writes in a simplified and practical way that ensures confidence and an enjoyable experience.

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Lower Beginner Japanese, a completely new way to learn Japanese with ease! Lower Beginner Japanese will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Japanese friends.

"When the Nightingale Sings" is a fictional historical tale about the Samurai, Geisha, Ninja, and the Ronin of Feudal Japan.Warrior Masahiro's Samurai family belongs to the Ouchi Clan of Yamaguchi-ken Prefecture. Masahiro falls in love with Masako but her family is not a social match. Suddenly, it comes to light, that Masako is in reality Princess Akiko, a Royal. The trials and tribulations of the Feudal Period are exciting and surreal.Ghosts and ghost ships appear but are they real?

Ryōma! tells the life story of Sakamoto Ryōma, one of the great figures in the turmoil that engulfed Japan in the years before the 1868 Meiji Restoration. The novel is a masterwork by the prolific historical novelist Shiba Ryōtarō and has sold more than 24 million copies in Japan since publication in 1966--and still counting! The novel has everything: a winning main character, an action-packed plot, swordfights, and romance, but it is also a fascinating, easy-to-digest history lesson about Japan's response to the shocking arrival of United States Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ships" ...

Something has awoken… Four-time self-published author David Angelo invites you back into the world of weredragons in this thrilling sequel to Scales of Rage! As the dust settles over New York, an ancient evil toils under the mountains of eastern Japan. The Orochi, an eight-headed dragon not seen in generations, is reborn and has chosen the weredragon Nicole Newheart as its potential muse. As Nicole travels to Asia on an urgent family matter, she finds herself locked in a race against time to keep the Orochi’s egg from falling into the wrong hands. Along the way, she faces a multitude of...

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces - and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval - she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan.

A romance novel set in Japan during the late 19th century. Discover the heart-wrenching tale of love torn asunder by cultural divides, societal expectations, and tragic misunderstandings in *Moonlit Path: A Japanese Love Story*. Set against the evocative backdrop of late 19th-century Japan, this novel weaves a poignant narrative of young love, unbearable choices, and timeless devotion. In *Moonlit Path: A Japanese Love Story*, we are introduced to Noguchi and Sanki, betrothed from a young age by their affluent families. As Noguchi journeys to America for education, the tranquil life he ...