Access African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

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"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” — The Washington Post 
 The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
Warrior. Samurai. Legend. 
When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traversed much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child in Northeast Africa, he served as a bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, traveling to India and China, and eventually arriving in Japan, where everything would change.
Most Japanese people had never seen an African man before. Some believed he was a god. Others saw him as the black-skinned Buddha.
Among those drawn to him was Lord Nobunaga, head of the most powerful clan in Japan, who made Yasuke a samurai in his court. Soon, Yasuke was learning the traditions of martial arts and ascending the upper echelons of Japanese society, where he would live on to become a legend for the centuries to come.    Read more

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Access The book of five rings: +Biography of Miyamoto Musashi, Illustrated Edition, Modern Translation

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"The Book of Five Rings," written by the legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi, is a classic work detailing combat techniques and strategies, as well as profound reflections on martial arts and the philosophy of life. Divided into five chapters, each corresponding to an element - Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void - this text explores the nuances of martial strategy and offers teachings that transcend time, applicable both in physical confrontation and in the challenges of everyday life.
 New in this edition: This new edition adds an additional dimension to Miyamoto Musashi's classic work. It includes a detailed biography that sheds light on the life and times of the samurai, offering an enriched context to better understand his teachings. Furthermore, the book is enhanced with illustrations that visualize the concepts and strategies described, offering an immersive reading experience. The original translation into modern French makes the text more accessible, opening Miyamoto Musashi's wisdom to a broader audience and facilitating the understanding of his timeless strategies and philosophies.    Read more

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Ebook Obachan: A Young Girl’s Struggle for Freedom in Twentieth-Century Japan

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This book is a compelling, vividly written, at times heartbreaking true story of a woman in early 20th Century Japan.  I couldn't put it down. This woman's yearning simply for basic education made me physically hurt for her and women like her.  It makes me embarrassed by what I can so easily take for granted.  Tani paints such a clear picture, I can see Mitsuko, her family, her surroundings.  An important read for every woman.

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Read Sengoku Jidai. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan

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Japan's Sengoku jidai ('Warring States Period') was a time of crisis and upheaval, a chaotic epoch when the relatively low-born rural military class of 'bushi' (samurai warriors) succeeded in overthrowing their social superiors in the court throughout much of the country. Into this tumultuous age of constant warfare came three remarkable individuals: Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616). Each would play a unique role in the re-unification of the disparate, fragmented collection of warring provinces which constituted Japan in the sixteenth and early seventeenth-centuries. 
This new narrative history of the sengoku era draws together the epic strands of their three stories for the first time. It offers a coherent survey of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600) under both Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, followed by the founding years of the Tokugawa shogunate (1600-1616). Every pivotal battle fought by each of these three hegemons is explored in depth from Okehazama (1560) and Nagashino (1575) to Sekigahara (1600) and the Two Sieges of Osaka Castle (1614-15). 
In addition, the political and administrative underpinnings of their rule is also examined, as well as the marginal role played by western foreigners ('nanban') and the Christian religion in early modern Japanese society. In its scope, the story of Japan's three unifiers ('the Fool', 'the Monkey', and 'the Old Badger') is a sweeping saga encompassing acts of unimaginable cruelty as well as feats of great samurai heroism which were venerated and written about long into the peaceful Edo/Tokugawa period.    Read more

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Audiobook In the Fog: A story of love and cannibalism

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On June 12th, 1981, Issei Sagawa, a 32-year-old Japanese student in literature, invited a Dutch classmate to his appartement located in a posh district of Paris, under the pretense of working on a German poem for a school assignment. Obsessed with cannibalism since childhood, Sagawa shot the young girl in the head, then proceeded to cut her up and eat several body parts.
Found legally insane, Sagawa wrote  In the Fog  in 1983, inside the walls of a French asylum for the criminally insane. This book, which describes his crime in gruesome detail, and the dark fantasies that led to it, soon became a best-seller in Japan.
For the first time, the original, uncensored version of  In the Fog  has been translated into English. Due to the extremely graphic nature of the contents, this book is recommended for mature readers.    Read more

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READ Jayhawk: Love, Loss, Liberation and Terror Over the Pacific

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This a great personal account of a world War 2 bomber pilot.  Very interesting in that the pilot flew B-25s, A-20s and A-26s and had personal stake in the re-taking of Manila.

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Access The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader's Edition) (Translations from the Asian Classics)

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I am by no means a scholar of the Heian period in Japanese history - far from it - but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  It is one among a precious handful of women's autobiographical writings from this era that have come down to us as diaries, memoirs, pillow books and poetry.  It is simply amazing to reach across a chasm of 1,000 years and participate in a life so distant and foreign in time and place.  And, it is surprisingly easy to relate to the thoughts and feelings expressed in these pages.  People did a lot of crying and often said how sad they were - perhaps depression is not a particularly modern affliction?
My favorite book of the Heian period is the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon and I recommend that the "casual" reader start there.  It's entertaining, informative and almost has a girlfriend feel as if she's sitting in your living room discussing the events of her day.  Again, it's very cool to connect like that across a millennium!  Forgive me, experts, for not dwelling on the finer points, but any interested person can get a lot out of these wonderful writings.

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Audiobook Passport To Hiroshima: The Unthinkable, Inspiring Journey of a Japanese-American Family Based on a True Story

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Absolutely agree with the other reviewers. This book is well worth the read. Very well written and brings the story to life in a way that I never imagined. Reading about the devastation in the aftermath of the bombing on Hiroshima is so real you feel you are actually there witnessing the horror (and horror it was). While it is difficult to read from a subject matter standpoint, I highly recommend it. Life is not just about the fun, light-hearted moments. Our true character develops from the hardships in life. The story being told from the viewpoint of an actual family who experienced this atrocity draws one in in a way that is unexpected. One reviewer mentioned it as historical fiction, however, it is anything but. The bombing was real, the family was/is real. Even if you are not a history buff, don't miss this one. An excellent read!!

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PDF The Girl with the White Flag

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New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter."
Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some of the fiercest fighting of the war rages around her, she must live alone, with nothing to fall back on but her own wits and daring. Fleeing from encroaching enemy forces, searching desperately for her lost sisters, taking scraps of food from the knapsacks of dead soldiers, risking death at every turn, Tomiko somehow finds the strength and courage to survive.
Many years later she decided to tell this story. Originally intended for juvenile readers, it is sure to move adults as well, because it is such a vivid portrait of the unintended civilian casualties of any war.    Read more

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EPUB Under My Skin: Drama, Trauma & Rock 'n' Roll

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Elise Krentzel’s fast paced memoir "Under My Skin: Drama, Trauma & Rock 'n' Roll" earned #1 on Amazon in new releases in all these categories: Biographies of Rock Bands, Music Business, Rock, Composers & Musicians, and Jewish Life. Elise shares how she took charge of the tumultuous 1970s by making a name for herself while still a teenager as a rock journalist. As a kid, she was encouraged by her parents to sing, play music, and write, but she wasn’t allowed to be “herself.” Alienated, she hid her heart and learned to become a stranger in her own skin as the torment of early childhood taught her to mistrust everyone, especially herself.
As an adolescent traveling in Europe, she came to realize there was more to life than sex, money, and fame. With newly instilled vigor and drive, Elise set out to break her toxic cycles, determined to become someone people would notice.
At 19 years old—the youngest journalist on the KISS Japan Tour—she negotiated a plum job with one of the biggest players in the Japanese music industry, desperately trying to fill the gaping hole left by feeling unheard and unloved by those she depended on most: her family.
Spanning three continents and twenty years, Under My Skin tells the story of a street-smart, vulnerable Jewish girl from the Bronx and how she changed her life, forever.    Read more

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Ebook I'm Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC

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I'm Staying with My Boys  is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off 3,000 Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after his 15-member unit was reduced to three men. At Iwo Jima he single-handedly destroyed an enemy blockhouse, allowing his unit to capture an airfield. Minutes later he was killed by an enemy artillery round. He was the only Marine in World War II to have received the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, and a Purple Heart and is arguably the most famous Marine of all time. 
 I'm Staying with My Boys  is the only family-authorized biography of Basilone, and it features photographs never before published. Distinctive among military biographies, the story is told in first person, allowing readers to experience his transformation, forged in the horrors of battle, from aimless youth to war hero known as "Manila John".    Read more

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