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Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937; surname written Seii (清井) in Japanese) [1] is a Japanese-American writer and illustrator. He is best known for Grandfather's Journey , a children's picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal for ...
My Thirty-Three Years' Dream: The Autobiography of Miyazaki Tōten (三十三年之夢, Sanjūsannen no yume) is an autobiography written by Tōten Miyazaki, first published in 1902. The English translation, published by Princeton University Press in 1982, was done by Marius B. Jansen (translator) and Etō Shinkichi [ ja ] (editor, Etō is the ...
Three Stripes in the Sun is a 1955 American war film directed by Richard Murphy and starring Aldo Ray, Philip Carey and Dick York. It is a story of an American sergeant stationed in Japan after World War II who falls for a local girl.
According to another source, the three stripes mark was created by the Adidas company founder, Adolf Dassler, and first used on footwear in 1949, when Adidas was founded. [1] In 1952, following the 1952 Summer Olympics in Finland, Adidas acquired its signature three stripe branding from Karhu Sports, for two bottles of whiskey and the ...
A Hulu documentary looks at the story of a Japanese comedian named Nasubi who became the unwitting star of a reality show in 1998.
John Weil Nathan (born March 1940) is an American translator, writer, scholar, filmmaker, and Japanologist.His translations from Japanese into English include the works of Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kōbō Abe, and Natsume Sōseki. [4]
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In English Kagerō Nikki is often called The Gossamer Years, which is the title given to the first English translation by Edward Seidensticker. The term kagerō has three possible meanings: it may mean a mayfly; a heat wave; or a thin film of cobweb, which is the meaning proposed by the English Orientalist Arthur Waley. [1]