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| Genre/Form: | Biographies Biographical dictionaries (form) Biography |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Weston, Mark, 1953- Giants of Japan. New York : Kodansha International, 1999 (OCoLC)607266006 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Weston |
| ISBN: | 1568362862 9781568362861 |
| OCLC Number: | 40723611 |
| Description: | xvi, 377 pages : map, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Industry. 1. The House of Mitsui: Merchants for Four Centuries. 2. Iwasaki Yataro and the Growth of Mitsubishi. 3. Matsushita Konosuke: Founder of Matsushita Electric (Panasonic). 4. Tashima Kazuo: Founder of Minolta. 5. Honda Soichiro: Founder of Honda. 6. Kobayashi Koji: The Man Who Turned NEC into a Global Computer Giant. 7. Toyoda Eiji: The Man Behind Toyota's Spectacular Growth. 8. Morita Akio: Co-founder of Sony -- Pt. 2. Traditional Culture. 9. Lady Murasaki: Author of The Tale of Genji, the World's First Great Novel. 10. Sen no Rikyu: Grand Master of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. 11. Izumo no Okuni: The Actress and Dancer Who Created Kabuki Theater. 12. Matsuo Basho: Japan's Great Haiku Poet. 13. Chikamatsu Monzaemon: Japan's Great Playwright. 14. Katsushika Hokusai: Master of the Wood-block Print -- Pt. 3. History. 15. Early Japan: Shinto Myths, the Imperial Lineage, and Shotoku, the Prince Who Spread Buddhism. 16. Yoritomo, Hojo Masako, and Yoshitsune: The First Shogun, His Wife, and His Legendary Brother. 17. Oda Nobunaga: The Warrior Who United Half of Japan. 18. Toyotomi Hideyoshi: The Peasant Who United All of Japan. 19. Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Shogun Who Begun a Three-Century Dynasty. 20. Oishi Kuranosuke: Leader of the Forty-Seven Ronin Who Avenged Their Master's Death. 21. Okubo Toshimichi: The Bureaucrat Who Led Japan into the Modern World. 22. Tojo Hideki: Japan's Wartime Prime Minister. 23. Yamamoto Isoroku: The Admiral Who Planned Pearl Harbor. 24. Emperor Hirohito: His Role in the Final Week of World War II. 25. Yoshida Shigeru: Prime Minister of Japan During the American Occupation. 26. Kato Shidzue: Birth Control Pioneer. 27. Tanaka Kakuei: Modern Japan's Most Powerful but Corrupt Prime Minister -- Pt. 4. Modern Writers. 28. Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Writer Who Helped Japan to Understand the West. 29. Natsume Soseki: The Early Twentieth Century's Most Highly Regarded Writer. 30. Ibuse Masuji: The Novelist from Hiroshima. 31. Hayashi Fumiko: Modern Japan's Most Popular Woman Writer. 32. Mishima Yukio: The Modern Novelist Inspired by the Samurai Tradition. 33. Ariyoshi Sawako: The Writer Who Gave Voice to Silent Women. 34. Kawabata Yasunari and Oe Kenzaburo: Nobel Prize-Winning Novelists -- Pt. 5. Two Film Directors, Two Athletes. 35. Ozu Yasujiro: Director of Poignant Films About Families in Transition. 36. Kurosawa Akira: Japan's Most Widely Admired Film Director. 37. Oh Sadaharu and Ueshiba Morihei: Japan's Home Run King and His Teacher, the Founder of Aikido. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Weston. |
Abstract:
Journalist Mark Weston introduces readers to the history of Asia's powerhouse through the dramatic lives of its most celebrated citizens.
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