Epaper terminal at Tokyo International Book Fair 2008 電子ペーパー端末が東京国際ブックフェアに！
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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (Bluejacket Books) $13.43 In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one … |
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Getting Naked with the Father-in-Law, and Other Tales from Rural Japan $4.99 After writing for years about New York City for Japanese readers of the Mainichi Weekly, Sean Sakamoto left the Big Apple and moved to Gujo Hachiman, a small, traditional town in the mountains of rural Japan where the locals still wear summer kimonos and wooden shoes and dance all night long on summer nights. Using his journalist’s eye, Sean continued to report for Japanese readers on the people h… |
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Letters from Burma $6.52 For the last fiftenn years of Burma’s traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi has been the inspirational leader of attempts to restore democracy to her country. In these fifty-two pieces she paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. She evokes the country’s seasons and scenery, customs and festivities, and describes an inspirational pilgrimage to the Buddhist ab… |
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