The Forgotten Japanese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Japanese write by Tsuneichi Miyamoto. This book was released on 2010-03-01. The Forgotten Japanese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revealing look into the hearts of the Japanese people and at rural lifestyles that have all but disappeared, in a long-awaited translation of a classic text by one of Japan's great folklore scholars.
The Forgotten Highlander
The Forgotten Highlander - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forgotten Highlander write by Alistair Urquhart. This book was released on 2010-10-01. The Forgotten Highlander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious “Death Railway” and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese “hellship,” his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August 1945, he was freed by the American Navy—a living skeleton—and had his first wash in three and a half years. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which should have probably killed him. Silent for over fifty years, this is Urquhart’s inspirational tale in his own words. It is as moving as any memoir and as exciting as any great war movie.
Wabi Sabi
Wabi Sabi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wabi Sabi write by Andrew Juniper. This book was released on 2011-12-10. Wabi Sabi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, wabi sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence. As much a state of mind--an awareness of the things around us and an acceptance of our surroundings--as it is a design style, wabi sabi begs us to appreciate the simple beauty in life--a chipped vase, a quiet rainy day, the impermanence of all things. Presenting itself as an alternative to today's fast-paced, mass-produced, neon-lighted world, wabi sabi reminds us to slow down and take comfort in the simple, natural beauty around us. In addition to presenting the philosophy of wabi-sabi, this book includes how-to design advice--so that a transformation of body, mind, and home can emerge. Chapters include: History: The Development of Wabi Sabi Culture: Wabi Sabi and the Japanese Character Art: Defining Aesthetics Design: Creating Expressions with Wabi Sabi Materials Spirit: The Universal Spirit of Wabi Sabi
Forgotten Armies
Forgotten Armies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forgotten Armies write by Christopher Alan Bayly. This book was released on 2005. Forgotten Armies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.
Unit 731
Unit 731 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unit 731 write by Derek Pua. This book was released on 2018-06-16. Unit 731 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Under the leadership of Dr. Shiro Isshi, Unit 731 subjected 3,000-250,000 innocent men, women, and children to cruel experiments and medical procedures that were carried out by the brightest medical students and staff that Imperial Japan had to offer.
