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New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time....

Книга "You Don't Need No Stinkin' Stockbroker. Taking the Pulse of Your Investment Portfolio". ...

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for mature audiences. Awkward Yoshida is hated by all the girls in school for his perceived closeness with hot guy Sato, who uses hanging out with Yoshida as an excuse to turn them all down. If Yoshida is merely an excuse, why does Sato taunt him in private about “his favorite”?...

Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an \"Orient\" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts--Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese--to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian....