An edition of Japanese for travellers (2006)

Japanese for travellers

a journey

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Japanese for travellers
Katie Kitamura, Katie Kitamura
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An edition of Japanese for travellers (2006)

Japanese for travellers

a journey

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Can you be a stranger in your own country? A Japanese-American raised in California, 24-year-old Katie Kitamura returns to Japan to discover the country she left behind. Travelling across this foreign landscape, she visits middle-class gambling halls, fight stadiums and giant shopping meccas, luxury care homes and cramped apartments housing four generations under a single roof. And she wonders in which version of modern Japan she might have belonged. Defined by its adventurous youth culture, but with the fastest-ageing population in the world, renowned for its strict social code, but producing the black-comedy violence of the Battle Royale films, the Japan she discovers is an often contradictory land of Godzilla toys and war memorials, of futuristic manga characters and brightly coloured vending machines.

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Language
English
Pages
257

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Cover of: Japanese for Travellers
Japanese for Travellers
2009, Penguin Group UK
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Cover of: Japanese for travellers
Japanese for travellers: a journey
2006, Hamish Hamilton
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Dewey Decimal Class
306.095209045

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257 p. :
Number of pages
257

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OL19908817M
ISBN 10
024114289X
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1103518
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4835489

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