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Way Of Life In Japan. Homestay
Eight-part series on the way of life in Japan. VHS. Available at the Circulation Desk. To see all eight titles in this series, do a title search in Annie for "way of life in Japan".
WEBSITES
(not listed in any particular order)
http://www.city.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp/f-living/english/index.html
Study in JAPAN ! Universities & Colleges in Japan
http://www.istudy.com/japanextra.htm
http://www.studyabroad.com/far-east/japan.html
General Information on Japan: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/japan-info.html
http://jguide.stanford.edu/site/living_in_japan_276.html
Cost living Japan - cost of Living in Tokyo
http://gojapan.about.com/od/dailylifeinjapan/a/costlivingtokyo.htm
ELT News: Teaching English in Japan
http://www.eltnews.com/guides/living/index.shtml
http://www.LivinginJapan.com
http://gojapan.about.com/od/etiquettelivinginjapan/
http://www.jtbusa.com/enhome/default.asp
Japan National Tourist Organization
http://www.jnto.go.jp/
Jane Bachnik. At Home in Japan, What No One Tells You (interactive tutorial)
http://athome.nime.ac.jp/
Japanese Information and Culture Center
http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/index.htm
Living in Japan 2004 (book)
http://www.livinginjapan.info/
LIBRARY BOOKS
(not listed in any particular order)
AUTHOR Norton, Joy, 1948-
TITLE Living in Japan : a guide to living, working, and traveling in Japan
EDITION Rev. and expanded ed.
IMPRINT Boston : Tuttle Pub., 2001.
SUBJECT Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
SUBJECT Americans -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .N697 2001
AUTHOR Richie, Donald, 1924-
TITLE A lateral view : essays on culture and style in contemporary Japan
IMPRINT Berkeley, CA : Stone Bridge Press, 1992.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .R53 1992
TITLE Gateway to Japan / June Kinoshita and Nicholas Palevsky.
EDITION Rev. ed.
IMPRINT Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 1992.
NOTE Includes bibliographical references and index.
SUBJECT Japan -- Guidebooks.
ADD AUTHOR Palevsky, Nicholas.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS805.2 .K56 1992
TITLE Japan at a glance
EDITION Updated.
IMPRINT Tokyo : Kodansha Intanashonaru Kabushiki Kaisha, 2001.
SERIES Kodansha bairingaru bukkusu.
NOTE Japanese and English.
SUBJECT Japan -- Social life and customs.
SUBJECT Japan -- Guidebooks.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS821 .I71 2001
AUTHOR McQueen, Ian L.
TITLE Japan : a budget travel guide
EDITION Updated ed.
IMPRINT Tokyo ; New York : Kondansha International ; New York, N.Y. :
Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha America, 1997.
NOTE "Earlier editions of this work were published under the title
Japan: A travel survival kit."
NOTE Includes index.
SUBJECT Japan -- Guidebooks.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS805.2 .M32 1997
AUTHOR Kanagy, Ruthy.
TITLE Living abroad in Japan
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT Emeryville, Calif. : Avalon Travel, 2004.
SUBJECT Popular culture -- Japan.
SUBJECT Japan -- Guidebooks.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS805.2 .K357 2004
AUTHOR Gendai Shinsho, Henshuubu.
TITLE Tokyo jouhou korekushon
IMPRINT Tokyo : Koudansha Gendai Shinsho, 1986.
SUBJECT Japan -- Guidebooks.
SUBJECT Japan -- Description and travel -- 1945- -- Guide books.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS805.2 .G4 1986
TITLE Contemporary Japan and popular culture , edited by John Whittier Treat
IMPRINT Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
SERIES ConsumAsiaN book series.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
SUBJECT Popular culture -- Japan.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .C69 1996
AUTHOR Schilling, Mark, 1949-
TITLE The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : Weatherhill, 1997.
SUBJECT Popular culture -- Japan.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .S3 1997
TITLE Handbook of Japanese popular culture / edited by Richard Gid
Powers and Hidetoshi Kato ; associate editor, Bruce Stronach.
IMPRINT New York : Greenwood Press, c1989.
SUBJECT Japan -- Popular culture.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .H347 1989
TITLE Japan pop! : inside the world of Japanese popular culture /
Timothy J. Craig, editor.
IMPRINT Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2000.
NOTE "An East Gate book."
SUBJECT Popular culture -- Japan.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .J386 2000
AUTHOR Buruma, Ian.
TITLE Behind the mask : on sexual demons, sacred mothers,
transvestites, gangsters, drifters and other Japanese cultural heroes
EDITION 1st American ed.
IMPRINT New York : Pantheon Books, c1984.
NOTE Previously published as: A Japanese mirror. London : Jonathan
Cape, 1983.
SUBJECT Japan -- Popular culture.
SUBJECT National characteristics, Japanese.
Leyburn-Level 4 DS821 .B796 1984
TITLE Talking about Japan Q & A / [edited by Patricia Mari Katayama,
Hisako Nozaki Ifshin, Kirsten Rochelle McIvor.....et al.]
EDITION 3rd ed.
IMPRINT [Tokyo] : Bilingual Books, Inc., 2005.
SUBJECT Japan -- Popular culture.
SUBJECT Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .T35 2005
TITLE The worlds of Japanese popular culture : gender, shifting
boundaries and global cultures / edited by D.P. Martinez.
IMPRINT Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
SERIES Contemporary Japanese society.
SUBJECT Popular culture -- Japan.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Leyburn-Level 4 DS822.5 .W67 1998
PERIODICALS AT LEYBURN LIBRARY
(not listed in any particular order)
TITLE The Japan Times. Electronic Version
IMPRINT Tokyo : Japan Times, Ltd., 1999-
CALL NO. PERIODICALS.
TITLE Japan echo.
IMPRINT [Tokyo] Japan Echo Inc.
CALL NO. PERIODICALS.
TITLE The Journal of Japanese studies.
IMPRINT [Seattle : Society for Japanese Studies]
CALL NO. PERIODICALS.
Bibliography created and updated
by Yolanda Merrill, Humanities Librarian.