epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

3 WINTER MADE EVERYONE a kind of monk in Japan, bringing out a streak of worldly asceticism that was never far from the surface in this land of spartan epicures. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

Ululation SHE is lean as a wolf, and very old,—the white bitch that guards my gate at night. She played with most of the young men and women of the ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

“Whores of War” Regardless of the controversy that later erupted over the various contractual relationships, the original contract between Blackwater/Regency and ESS, signed March 8, 2004, called for “a minimum ...

mobi |eng | 2005-11-29 | Author:Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully

16-1: Japanese early afternoon search plans. Haruna’s 1300 search, as well as the routes ordered by Nagumo at 1315, are both indicated. Which of these individual search lines were actually ...

epub |eng | | Author:Solt, George

HATE IT OR LOVE IT During the high-growth era there was an explosion of weekly newsmagazines targeting different segments of the population, such as young women, young men, housewives, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-25 | Author:George Weller

March 1 The bush near us has taken an awful beating in the past weeks—looks as though the whole Japanese army has been hunting us. Had a good night’s sleep ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights. * The instructors at ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:John Geoghegan [Geoghegan, John]

* According to some accounts, it took almost twice as long to prep the third Seiran. † Robert Mikesh says seven minutes were required to launch each of the first ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1996-07-01 | Author:Robert Leckie [Leckie, Robert]

Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Laurence Rees [LAURENCE REES]

Above A Japanese officer brandishing a sword (right) leads his soldiers in an attack on the Chinese in November 1941. This bloody, racist war against the Chinese would continue in ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Scott Wilson

THE CONCEPT OF THE FIVE RINGS IN ESOTERIC BUDDHISM Traveling the backroads of Japan or wandering through the temple precincts there, one often finds five-tiered stone monuments called stupas. These ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Natsume Soseki

PART III SENSEI’S TESTAMENT CHAPTER 55 I have had two or three letters from you this summer. I seem to remember that in the second or third you asked my ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Gold, Hal [Gold, Hal]

Soviet demands that Emperor Hirohito face trial for war crimes caused the Japanese great distress, as this recently (1995) released note from the Foreign Ministry to SCAP shows. Pingfang's double ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-21 | Author:Leckie, Robert [Leckie, Robert]

A convoy had left Pearl Harbor on that date and it was the Northern Force headed for Roi-Namur. It carried the men of the Fourth Marine Division. They had sailed ...