Holt Library: Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II: Japanese culture

Books

Forest Bathing: how trees can help you find health and happiness by Qing Li
Call Number: 615.8 L
ISBN: 9780525559856
Publication Date: 2018-04-17
In this beautiful book--featuring more than 100 color photographs from forests around the world, including the forest therapy trails that criss-cross Japan--Dr. Qing Li, the world's foremost expert in forest medicine, shows how forest bathing can reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your immune and cardiovascular systems, boost your energy, mood, creativity, and concentration, and even help you lose weight and live longer.
Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Call Number: YA F ROM
ISBN: 9781616959012
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at a critical low and the elderly are living increasingly long lives. This population crisis has precipitated a mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia--as well as the development of refined artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short.
From Here to Eternity: : traveling the world to find the good death by Caitlin Doughty
Call Number: RA 622 .D68 2017
ISBN: 9780393249897
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead.
Samurai Rising: the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner; Gareth Hinds (Illustrator)
Call Number: YA 952 K
ISBN: 9781580895842
Publication Date: 2016-02-02
Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills. --Publisher's description.
Tea Ceremony Utensils by Ryoichi Fujioka; Louise Cort (Translator)
Call Number: 738.209 F
ISBN: 9780834827028
Publication Date: 1973-06-01
Kaizen : (Ky'zen), the key to Japan's competitive success by Masaaki Imai
Call Number: 658 I
ISBN: 9780075543329
Publication Date: 1986-11-01
Kaizen means gradual, unending improvement, doing "little things" better; setting --and achieving --ever higher standards. It is Kaizen, says Masaaki Imai, that is the simple truth behind Japan's economic "miracle" and the real reason the Japanese have become the masters of "flexible manufacturing" technology -- the ability to adapt manufacturing processes to changing customer and market requirements, and do it fast ... For the first time, Western managers have a comprehensive handbook of 16 Kaizen management practices they can put to work.
Fallout : Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age by Fred Pearce
Call Number: 363.17 P
ISBN: 9780807092491
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
A highly readable account of the damage inflicted on humans by nuclear explosions and disasters, starting with the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and continuing through the year 2017.
Tai-pan: a novel of Japan by Clavell, James
Call Number: F CLA
ISBN: 6616356
Publication Date: 1966
European and American traders move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium War.

Streaming videos, articles, and e-books

Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 by Yoshikuni Igarashi
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780691049120
Publication Date: 2000-07-30
Crossroads Japan by CNN
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2017
Japan's population is aging while the birth rate is declining; fewer young workers pay for health care and pensions. This video will examine how local communities are coping.
This short segment (1:17 min) is one of several segments from this film.
J, Robot: Case Studies in Japanese Culture, Art, and Technology by Michael Garrigues
Publication Date: 2014
While robotics research is advancing on every continent, Japan maintains a clear global lead. This film looks at some of the country’s astonishing breakthroughs in robotics. It also examines Japanese culture and its propensity to nurture robot development. Viewers learn how industry leaders, government agencies, and scientific institutions are investing time and money to expand, improve, and perfect the technology.
58:39 min.
Japanese Culture : The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9784805311639
Publication Date: 2016-08-09
This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that underlie modern Japan and offers readers deep insights into Japanese manners and etiquette.

Kawabata Yasunari: The Master of Funerals
Winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, Kawabata Yasunari wrote novels that expressed the transitory nature of love and beauty. This program traces Kawabata’s life and career, focusing on his importance in Japan’s Neosensualist movement and the development of his finely tuned, elegiac sensibility. Personal and historical events that shaped the author’s creative journey—including the loss of his family in childhood, Japan’s militarism and defeat in World War II, and Kawabata’s friendship with Mishima Yukio—provide a framework for discussions of The Izu Dancer, Snow Country, The Sound of the Mountain, Kyoto, and other novels. Kawabata’s untimely death and the role of suicide in Japanese culture are also explored. (50 minutes)

When Women Rule the Court: Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball by Nicole Willms
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780813584164
Publication Date: 2017-08-28
For nearly one hundred years, basketball has been an important part of Japanese American life. Women's basketball holds a special place in the contemporary scene of highly organized and expansive Japanese American leagues in California, in part because these leagues have produced numerous talented female players. Using data from interviews and observations, Nicole Willms explores the interplay of social forces and community dynamics that have shaped this unique context of female athletic empowerment. As Japanese American women have excelled in mainstream basketball, they have emerged as local stars who have passed on the torch by becoming role models and building networks for others.