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Windows on Japan [electronic resource]

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In Windows on Japan, a New Zealander walks across rural Japan and ponders centuries-old perceptions about the country that is still prisoner to an isolationist past. In a deeply insightful commentary, the author surveys cultural, social and political mores, explores the wellspring of racial perception and the problem of the memory of war. Windows on Japan alternates chapters of physical travel with travel through perception about Japan, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that perplexes as much as it pleases. The author walked a route that connects the ports of N

Title Windows on Japan [electronic resource] : a walk through place and perception / Bruce Roscoe.
Publisher New York : Algora Pub.
Creation Date c2007
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-295) and index.
English
Content Preliminaries
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 A NIGHT IN NIIGATA
CHAPTER 2 GULLIVER UNDERSTOOD
CHAPTER 3 MISSING PERSONS
CHAPTER 4 PAUL ABOUT HIMSELF
CHAPTER 5 SOUTH INTO SANJO
CHAPTER 6 LETTERS TO THE PAST
CHAPTER 7 100 SACKS OF RICE
CHAPTER 8 SHIRLEY'S CLOAK
CHAPTER 9 FEUDAL FACSIMILE
CHAPTER 10 JACK'S EPIC
CHAPTER 11 AN ORDERLY TOWN
CHAPTER 12 GOLF AND TULIPS
CHAPTER 13 THE SCENE CHANGES
CHAPTER 14 TRADING TERMS
CHAPTER 15 AMID THE TALL CEDARS
CHAPTER 16 ONCE WERE ANIMALS
CHAPTER 17 MATSUE'S LIFE
CHAPTER 18 PUPPETS FEEL NO PAIN
CHAPTER 19 TRAVELERS ARE STRANGERSCHAPTER 20 A MURDEROUS CULT
CHAPTER 21 WAKE UP CALL
CHAPTER 22 WHAT OSCAR REALIZED
CHAPTER 23 THE PATH OF GHOSTS
CHAPTER 24 LYRICS AND MIRRORS
CHAPTER 25 THE GAZE OF THE GODDESS
CHAPTER 26 STOLEN WORDS
CHAPTER 27 SLEEPLESS IN SAITAMA
CHAPTER 28 74 MINUTES
CHAPTER 29 KAWAGOE COMFORT
CHAPTER 30 AS WE SEE THEM
CHAPTER 31 THE CITY THAT WORKS
CHAPTER 32 LOOKING OUT TO SEA
CHAPTER 33 HE LOVED HIS WIFE
CHAPTER 34 UNTIL THE END
CHAPTER 35 THE UNCOUNTABLE DEAD
CHAPTER 36 WAR AND MUSIC
CHAPTER 37 FEATHERSTON
CHAPTER 38 THE WAY BACK
CHAPTER 39 OPERA CITYCHAPTER 40 HIGHER GROUND
ENGLISH BORROWINGS OF JAPANESE WORDS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Extent 1 online resource (320 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713631205171
MARC RECORDS
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