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History Japanese Language

Seeking English-language Japanese WW2 History Book.?
Are there any good English-language editions of modern nonfiction books showing how WW2-era history is being taught in Japan today?
Check the University of Hawaii Press web site . They do more books on the Pacific Rim then any other press in the US.
If they print on no one will.
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KidSpeak Japanese $29.95 KidSpeak Japanese is a language learningbreakthrough that makes learning Japanese easy for kids of all ages. Your children will love the delightful combination of enjoyable animation, fun activities, and interactive games, puzzles and songs that make up this award-winning educational software program. It’s the perfect way to get your kids started with learning Japanese! |
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A History of the Japanese Language $111 Describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day. |
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Everywhere Japanese Audio Course $49.95 Learning Japanese is a rich and rewarding experience, but it takes time. If you are like many Japanese learners, finding the time to work with a new language is often more challenging than the Japanese language itself. Everywhere Japanese is an audio course that gives you 27 lessons for beginner to intermediate learners on 4 Audio CDs. This program is truly designed for busy learners on the go! Expand your learning time – in the car, at the gym or just around the house – with Everywhere Japanese. |
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Transparent Japanese Premium Edition $89.95 TL Premium Edition immerses you in language specific videos and conversations to give you practical experience in using the language. With 15,000 words, countless activities and games, and MP3 Audio for your iPod or other player, TL Premium will have you speaking and understanding the language in no time. |
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Transparent Japanese Complete Edition $179.95 The TL Complete edition contains every language-learning application you’ll need to help improve your language skills! Ideal for school, business, travel, or simple personal growth, the Complete edition offers you the most comprehensive way to learn a language. From top-rated software to an audio course, Complete Edition gives you access to a broad variety of fun, effective learning solutions that will develop all your Language skills. |
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Japanese Byki Deluxe 4 $69.95 From beginners to advanced learners, Byki Deluxe 4 is the simple and effective way to master any language with Perfect Recall, guaranteed! Whether for business, travel, school or personal enjoyment, you’ll quickly learn to understand and speak over 1,000 common words and 250 essential phrases in any language. |
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Language, Ideology and Japanese History Textbooks $195 There are frequent protests that a biased, nationalistic history is taught in Japanese schools. This study analyses authorised textbooks currently in use, elucidating meanings and associated ideologies created through language. |
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KidSpeak Asian Pack $39.95 KidSpeak Asian Pack is a language learning breakthrough that makes learning Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean easy for kids of all ages. Your children will love the delightful combination of enjoyable animation, fun activities, and interactive games, puzzles and songs that make up this award-winning educational software program. It’s the perfect way to get your kids started with learning Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean! |
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KidSpeak 6-in-1 Languages $49.95 KidSpeak 6 in 1 is a language-learning breakthrough that makes learning a second language easy for kids of all ages. Your children will love the delightful combination of enjoyable animation, fun activities, and interactive games, puzzles and songs that make up this award-winning educational software program. KidSpeak 6 in 1 is a tremendous value and teaches several languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Hebrew. |
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Loanwords in Japanese $143 Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise to recent Japanese government publications seeking to outlaw foreign vocabulary or, at the very least, offer native translations. Beginning with a history of loanwords, chapters cover loanword phonology, loanword morphology, loanword orthography and official and public attitudes to Japanese loanwords. The volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, scholars and students of the Japanese language. |
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Japanese Psycholinguistics $188 This classified and annotated research bibliography is meant to serve as an introduction to the rich field of Japanese psycholinguistics, by providing an exhaustive inventory of what has been done in or about Japanese in a psycholinguistic sense. Thus, this volume captures the tradition of psycholinguistic research currently being pursued in Japan, its history and development over the past thirty years, and its current directions and research themes, as well as international research in modern psycholinguistics which targets the Japanese language as the focal point of empirical procedures or deductive analysis in psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science. The bibliography supports a broad view of psycholinguistics, acknowledging that psycholinguistic research in how natural language is learned, produced, comprehended, stored, and recalled now reaches beyond its traditional roots in the two disciplines of psychology and linguistics. The interested scholar will thus find entries from the traditional core of psycholinguistic research on natural language, as well as entries from related areas which have either influence or been influenced by psycholinguistic work on Japanese. Every article, text, and edited volume listed in the bibliography is available through normal library channels, and is thus accessible to the scholar interested in what psycholinguistic research has been done in or on the Japanese language, in Japan and internationally. The annotations for each entry have been especially written for this bibliographic inventory, and with the linguist, psychologist, and psycholinguist specifically in mind. The authors’ intention is to maximize the usefulness of such an inventory by preparing annotations for the interested reader who wishes to know not only what the article contains but where it fits in the research tradition. |
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Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology $65 A collection of articles by established as well as young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies. This volume brings together studies that advance our understanding of the relationship between Japanese language and gender, with particular focus on examining local linguistic practices in relation to dominant ideologies. |
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The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language $143 This book marks the first-ever collection of papers in English on the acquisition of Japanese as a second language. Its overarching goal is to broaden and deepen the field of SLA research by focusing on Japanese rather than on more commonly studied European languages. Broad in scope and eclectic in approach with chapters by leading scholars in the field, The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language offers a survey of the far-ranging field of SLA research as it applies to Japanese. Chapters include studies on input and interaction, research into the evaluation of L2 proficiency, and investigations of the grammatical system that is the product of second language learning. |
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Japanese $188 Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. It has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century AD. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters and two sets of syllabary developed from the Chinese characters. This book consists of fourteen chapters covering the phonology, morphology, the writing system, grammatical constructions, and discourse and pragmatic phenomena of Japanese. It provides researchers with a useful typological reference and students of Japanese with a theory-neutral introduction to current linguistic research issues. IMPORTANT INFORMATION During the printing process of this book an unfortunate error occurred: page number 151 was mixed with the same page of another book. You will find the correct page here . This information applies only to the copies sold before November, 1, 2002. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. |
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Second Language Attrition in Japanese Contexts $75 This volume introduces the study of language attrition – the forgetting of language. The contributors focus on contexts of loss where Japanese is either the attriting language, or the replacing language. This book offers theoretical and practical insights for those interested in language change. |
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Learners in Japanese Language Classrooms $150 This book offers an examination of the verbal participation of learners in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. The verbal participation of learners in language classrooms offers a rich seam of data to the applied linguist. Overt and covert participation, when examined, can reveal both the structures of a classroom and elicit privileged information on participant's self-perceptions. This book examines the verbal participation of learners in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. Verbal interactions with teachers and classmates and 'private' speech acts are examined in relation to the classroom context and also sociocultural factors such as the learner's motivation and the teacher's belief in their own methods. The examination of corrective feedback episodes and learners' private speech uses recorded speech and stimulated recall interviews recorded over the period of a year. The book's main focus is on Corrective Feedback episodes, and it explains not only the language used in class but also teacher's and learner's own perceptions. This book will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and second language acquisition, especially those involved with Japanese as a second or other language. It will also appeal to teachers of second and foreign languages. |
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A History of Japanese Theology $19 “This is the first book on the history of Japanese theology written by Japanese theologians. Editor Yasuo Furuya and four other eminent Japanese theologians – Akio Dohi, Toshio Sato, Seiichi Yagi, and Masaya Odagaki – clarify the tumultuous history of Japanese Christianity and describe the context, methodology, and goals shaping Japanese theology today.” |
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History of Language $29.95 As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Steven Roger Fischer offers a radical reinterpretation of what language is. |
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Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity, 4th Edition $73.49 In continuous print since 1969, this text has helped establish the treatment of Japanese religion as a unified worldview, offering a concise yet thorough look at the culture and history of the Japanese religion. This text helps students see Japanese religion as a whole, rather than as disconnected religious traditions. No technical knowledge of Japanese history, Japanese religion, or the Japanese language is required for understanding the material. JAPANESE RELIGION has been used in Japan and Europe, as well as in North America. |
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Language in History $54.95 Tony Crowley provides a new agenda for language study; one which acknowledges the fact that writing about history has always been determined by the historical context, and by issues of race, class and gender. |
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Japanese Women Poets $22.17 Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry – from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the 19th century, into the contemporary period when books of women's poems have created a sensation.This anthology presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically, and of all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse. The poems describe not just seasonal changes and the vagaries of love – which form the thematic core of traditional Japanese poetry – but also the devastations of war, childbirth, conflicts between child-rearing and work, experiences as refugees, experiences as non-Japanese residents in Japan, and more.Sections of poetry open with headnotes, and the editor has provided explanations of terms and references for those unfamiliar with the Japanese language. Other useful tools include a glossary of poetic terms, a chronology, and a bibliography that points the reader toward other works by and about these poets.There is no comparable collection available in English.Students and anyone who appreciates poetry and Japanese culture will treasure this magnificent anthology. Editor and translator Hiroaki Sato is a past winner of the PEN America translator prize and the Japan-United States Friendship Commission's 1999 literary translation award. |
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Language History $180 This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries. This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with (historical) linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and also for those who are enrolled in courses devoted to reading texts in old languages. |
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Japanese Architecture: A Short History $13.69 A. L. Sadler's invaluable study of Japanese architecture first appeared in 1941. Considered a classic in its field unequaled in clarity and insight Japanese Architecture A Short History is a lucid and uncomplicated introduction to this important aspect of Japanese culture. Beginning with the earliest evidences from prehistory and ending with the Edo period when Japan attained stature as a modern state Japanese Architecture is as relevant today as it was in 1941. |
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Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History $13.79 Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example. The book is unique in that it provides the first full history of the last 200 years of Japanese clothing. It is also the first book to include Asian fashion as part of global fashion as well as fashion theory. It adds a hitherto absent continuity to the understanding of historical and current fashion in Japan and is pioneering in offering possible theories to account for that entire history. By providing an analysis of how that entire history changes our understanding of the way fashion works this book will be an essential text for all students of fashion and design. |
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A Companion to Japanese History $199.95 A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies |
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The Accentual History of the Japanese and Ryukyuan Languages $175 This book looks into the accentual history of the Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. Applying the comparative method, the author has reconstructed the accentual history of the Japonic languages. The reconstruction is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan, and also on historical materials. |
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New History of Japanese Cinema $150 In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanese film. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation. Adopting a thematic, exploratory approach, Standish links the concept of Japanese cinema as a system of communication with some of the central discourses of the twentieth century: modernism, nationalism, humanism, resistance, and gender. After an introduction outlining the earliest years of cinema in Japan, Standish demonstrates cinema's symbolic position in Japanese society in the 1930s GÇô as both a metaphor and a motor of modernity. Moving into the late thirties and early forties, Standish analyses cinema's relationship with the state-focusing in particular on the war and occupation periods. The book's coverage of the post-occupation period looks at romance films in particular. Avant-garde directors came to the fore during the 1960s and early seventies, and their work is discussed in depth. The book concludes with an investigation of genre and gender in mainstream films of recent years. In grappling with Japanese film history and criticism, most western commentators have concentrated on offering interpretations of what have come to be considered classic films. A New History of Japanese Cinema takes a genuinely innovative approach to the subject, and should prove an essential resource for many years to come. |
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Odd Markets in Japanese History $37 This book uses a rational-choice approach to study the impact of Japanese law on economic growth in Japan. |
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A History of the Korean Language $88 Traces the history of the Korean language from its origins right up to the present day. |
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A History of Japanese Buddhism $105 First study in English on Japanese Buddhism by a distinguished scholar in the field of Religious Studies will be widely welcomed.The main focus is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day. |
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Japanese Language in Use $47.45 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Japanese: The Written Language $6 No Synopsis Available |
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Japanese Language & People $112.13 No Synopsis Available |
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Modality and the Japanese Language $73.13 No Synopsis Available |
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Japanese Business Language $154.05 No Synopsis Available |
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Japanese: The Spoken Language $123.5 No Synopsis Available |