"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been 'interned' by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...

A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.

"An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history.This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who--in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old--joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps--a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships. Their callsign...

"Ohayo! It's breakfast time and Gigi can't wait to make her favorite meal--peanut butter toast. Yummy! But Ojiji doesn't like peanut butter. How can anyone NOT like peanut butter? Ojiji prefers Japanese foods--like natto, made from fermented soybeans. Will Gigi learn to love a new breakfast treat? This newest work in the series highlights the close relationship of Gigi and her grandfather and trying new things!"

El poeta griego Stathis Gourgouris y la poetisa japonesa Maki Starfield tuvieron un diálogo poético sobre "círculos". Stathis Gourgouris muestra "El amor nunca ha conocido la muerte" y Maki Starfield muestra "Círculo de aspiración". Este libro es una versión trilingüe en griego, inglés y japonés.

Everything you need to learn the 200 basic Japanese kanji characters is here in this eBook! Flash cards are an essential tool in memorizing words when you are learning a new language. In Japanese Kanji Flash Cards, Volume 1, you'll get all the tools needed to learn the basic 200 Japanese kanji, including: 200 flash cards featuring the most commonly-used characters. Downloadable audio recordings of over 1, 200 words and phrases from a native speaker....

This is an invaluable study guide and practice book for learning basic Japanese kanji. Learning Japanese Kanji Practice Book is intended for beginning students, or experienced speakers who need to practice their written Japanese. Kanji are an essential part of the Japanese language and together with kana (hiragana and katakana) comprise written Japanese. This book presents the kanji characters that are most commonly used. All the kanji and related...

The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal...

This is a basic, do–it– yourself guide to the Japanese language! Harvard University's Tazuko Monane teaches you the secret of speaking Japanese fluently in simple 20-minute lessons. Each lesson zeroes in on one everyday activity: introducing yourself, asking directions, ordering sushi, giving directions to a taxi driver, eating with friends, and other everyday conversations. Japanese Made Easy is designed for people living in or going to Japan...

Making Out in Japanese is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to the Japanese language as it's really spoken. Sugoku suki! Mata aeru?-(I'm crazy about you! Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Japanese and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap! Japanese classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious scenarios but chances are while...