books about: tokyo     books:       Tune In Tokyo:The Gaijin Diaries AmazonEncore, 2011 Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run – run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don’t understand anything and won’t be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to ...             A Clean Kill in Tokyo (previously published as Rain Fall), 2013 Previously published as Rain Fall Name: John Rain. Vocation: Assassin. Specialty: Natural Causes. Base of operations: Tokyo. Availability: Worldwide. Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn't care about why... Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist--and the daughter ...             GENKI I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese [With CDROM] (Japanese Edition) (English and Japanese ... Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, ... Japan Times/Tsai Fong Books, 2011 Second edition of the most highly regarded teaching text book on the Japanese language, covering speaking, listening, reading, and writing to cultivate overall language ability. Each lesson in the revised edition features a new section dubbed Culture Notes," and now includes the audio CD companion which is in mp3 format ready to install on any music player. In Japanese/English. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.             People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil ... FSG Originals, 2012 Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.   Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie’s disappearance and followed the massive search for her, the long investigation, and the even longer trial. Over ten years, he earned the ...             DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan John Benson DK Travel, 2013 DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. This uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide is packed with photographs and illustrations to help you to discover Japan region by region, from local festivals and markets ...             Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II John Geoghegan Crown, 2013 The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time   In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid--this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified Japanese program required developing a squadron of top secret submarines--the ...             1Q84 (Vintage International) Haruki Murakami Vintage, 2013 “Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” — The New York Times Book Review   The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic ...             Sew Everything Workshop: The Complete Step-by-Step Beginner's Guide with 25 Fabulous Original Designs, ... Diana Rupp Workman Publishing Company, 2007 The Book A lively how to and why to sew tutorial that marries attitude and instruction while teaching everything you need to know: How to find the right machine, and become one with it Essential skills, from winding a bobbin to sewing a dart to customizing a pattern Preparing a workspace The Ten Fabric Commandments Laying out and cutting patterns With step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs and illustrations throughout The ...             A Visitor's Guide to Tokyo, 2012 Based on his 40 plus visits to Tokyo, Kenji Maeda has created this quick guide to some of the useful information which is not likely to make it to your average guidebook. Including - hotels, food, things to do, getting around and some general Japanese etiquette tips             Tokyo Pizza Kodi Press, 2013 Shortlisted finalist in the 2013 NaNoWriWee 30-hour novel competition sponsored by HarperCollinsUK and The Kernel, Tokyo Pizza is a surreal ride mixing satire with pulp adventure. Five college students on an exchange program in Tokyo in the early 90s find themselves involved in a devious plot to blackmail one of their number. As they learn more about their situation, they discover their opponents are both powerful and distant, with the ...             Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) Johannes W. Rohen, Elke Lutjen-Drecoll MD, ... Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010 This Color Atlas of Anatomy features full-color photographs of actual cadaver dissections, with accompanying schematic drawings and diagnostic images. The photographs depict anatomic structures with a realism unmatched by illustrations in traditional atlases and show students specimens as they will appear in the dissection lab. Chapters are organized by region in order of standard dissection, with structures presented both in a systemic ...             The Gods of Heavenly Punishment: A Novel W. W. Norton & Company, 2013 A lush, exquisitely rendered meditation on war, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families, American and Japanese, their loves and infidelities, their dreams and losses, and how they are all connected by one of the most devastating acts of war in human history. In this evocative and thrilling epic novel, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan’s New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother ...             Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo Mamster Books, 2013 Everyone knows how to live the good life in Paris, Provence, or Tuscany. Now, Matthew Amster-Burton makes you fall in love with Tokyo. Experience this exciting and misunderstood city through the eyes of three Americans vacationing in a tiny Tokyo apartment. Follow 8-year-old Iris on a solo errand to the world’s greatest supermarket, picnic on the bullet train, and eat a staggering array of great, inexpensive foods, from eel to udon. A humorous ...             Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata Vintage, 1996 Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.   At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair ...             The Thief Soho Crime, 2012 A literary crime masterpiece that follows a Japanese pickpocket lost to the machinations of fate. Bleak and oozing existential dread, The Thief is simply unforgettable.   The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses ...             Lonely Planet Tokyo (City Guide) Timothy Hornyak, Rebecca Milner Lonely Planet, 2012 “Yoking past and future, Tokyo dazzles with its traditional culture and passion for everything new. From architecture to cuisine, this is a capital of superlatives.” – Timothy Hornyak, Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is. ...             Lonely Planet Japan (Lonely Planet Travel Guide) Chris Rowthorn, Timothy Hornyak, ... Lonely Planet, 2011 “Japan is a world apart – a cultural Galapagos where a unique civilization blossomed, and thrives today in delicious contrast of traditional and modern. The Japanese spirit is strong, warm and incredibly welcoming.” – Chris Rowthorn, Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive ...             Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Jake Adelstein Vintage, 2010 A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.   Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated ...             Lonely Planet Kyoto (City Travel Guide) Chris Rowthorn Lonely Planet, 2012 “Kyoto is the Japan of your imagination: quiet temples, sublime Zen gardens, colourful Shinto shrines and narrow alleys where geisha scurry to secret assignations.” –Chris Rowthorn, Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is. Inside ...             Katana Blade, 2013 In his action packed debut novel, up and coming sci-fi thriller PHIL SMALLEY takes his readers on a white knuckle ride through the streets of Tokyo that will leave you on the edge of your seat from intense opening to mind blowing conclusion. The Ochiko Corporation is the world’s foremost covert operations contractor, and Kana Ochiko is the company’s top assassin. 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