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The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......of the origins and development of modern Japanese fiction. According to that account...Western-centered view of the subject, modern Japanese fiction inevitably followed a linear...imperialist culture. Karatani sees modern Japanese fiction in an utterly different perspective...

Modern Japanese Writers.

World Literature Today;  January 1, 2002 ;     522 words ......688) and John Lewell's less thorough Modern Japanese Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary...in the scholarship it encompasses, Modern Japanese Writers is a difficult work to review...the exception rather than the norm. Modern Japanese Writers explores the life and work...

SITE OF DIG SHEDS CLUES ON ORIGINS OF JAPANESE LIFE.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 5, 1999 ;     700+ words ......what extent are Yoshizaki and other modern Japanese descended from those ancient people...There is a complication, though. While modern Japanese feel pride in Jomon achievements...suggests that the Jomon did not look like modern Japanese. Instead, they had features that made...

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History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2000 ;     575 words ...Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History New York: Columbia University...September 1999 In The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History, Gary D. Allinson provides...history. Indeed, Allinson stresses that modern Japanese history must be conceived as a complex...

FLAVOURS OF 2009

The Hindustan Times;  December 30, 2008 ;     271 words ......Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 30 -- Modern Japanese Traditional Japanese food depends...flavours and expensive ingredients. But modern Japanese can be cheap and spicy. Already, sushi-love...So as the realisation grows that modern Japanese is easy to do, more restaurants will...

Prints from the past Huntley resident brought artistic craft of Japanese...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  June 3, 2001 ;     641 words ......man who wrote the definitive book on modern Japanese prints, who in fact introduced America...artists then blossomed into the book Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, which Statler...Michener wrote in the introduction to Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. It is an account...

Jomon genes: using DNA, researchers probe the genetic origins of modern...

Science News;  February 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Yayoi were the true ancestors of the modern Japanese. For most of this debate's history...the debate. By studying the genes of modern Japanese and of other Asians, and even the...have influenced the genetic makeup of modern Japanese. Our data clearly show that both Yayoi...

Analysis: Aso seeks to follow grandad.

United Press International;  April 11, 2001 ;     700+ words ......grandson of the great founding father of modern Japanese politics may preside over the disintegration...Yoshida Shigeru, the greatest figure in modern Japanese history. Shigeru, while a towering...United States apart from specialists in modern Japanese history. But it was he who took ...

JAPAN. Tokyo. 1961. Modern Japanese painter HAYASHI. (NYC29039)

Magnum Photos;  January 1, 1961 ;     196 words ......Photos 01-01-1961 JAPAN. Tokyo. 1961. Modern Japanese painter HAYASHI. Keywords: Old people...Document Dominant JAPAN. Tokyo. 1961. Modern Japanese painter HAYASHI. JAPAN. Tokyo. 1961. Modern Japanese painter HAYASHI. JAPAN. JAPAN. 1961...

ANALYSIS: ASO SEEKS TO FOLLOW GRANDAD

United Press International;  April 11, 2001 ;     700+ words ......grandson of the great founding father of modern Japanese politics may preside over the disintegration...Yoshida Shigeru, the greatest figure in modern Japanese history. Shigeru, while a towering...United States apart from specialists in modern Japanese history. But it was he who took ...

Japanese Paintings Expo Opens In Beijing

Xinhua English Newswire;  August 29, 1998 ;     111 words ......Hirayama Ikuo's Engraving Art and Great Masters' Works of Modern Japanese Painting opened at the China Art Gallery here today. The...rewards. The exhibition also exhibited works of other 22 modern Japanese painters, whom are inspired by the scrolls of the Kamakura...

Special exhibitions. (Look Out Post).(Brief Article)

Look Japan;  April 1, 2002 ;     105 words ......exhibitions at the Tokyo National Museum. Taikan--His Heart and Soul--Modern Japanese Painting presents 50 of the major works of Yokoyama Taikan, the master of modern Japanese painting, including the gorgeous Cherry Blossoms at Night and, pictured...

Love of Mountains

The Village Voice;  December 16, 1997 ;     307 words ...Love of Mountains By Uno Koji Translated by Elaine Cerbert University of Hawaii Press, 226 pp., $23 paper In the two stories that make up Love of Mountains, Uno Koji (who died in 1961) displays an enchanting eccentricity. Playful...

Modern Japanese Ceramics In New Orleans Exhibit

AsianWeek;  April 22, 1994 ;     552 words ...Tina Soong AsianWeek 04-22-1994 Modern Japanese Ceramics In New Orleans Exhibit. NEW ORLEANS (LA) -- "Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections...comprehensive general survey of the modern Japanese ceramic art, known for its diversity...

Woodblock 'Dream': Sharply Observed

The Washington Post;  November 6, 2004 ;     700+ words ..."Dream Worlds: Modern Japanese Prints and Paintings From the Robert O. Muller Collection...these prints is uneasy. They're part new and part old. Much modern Japanese art is like that. It can't quite make up its mind. It suggests...