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Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder 1930-, American poet, b. San Francisco. Associated with the beat generation of the 1950s, he lived in Japan from 1956 to 1968. His poetry, influenced by Zen Buddhism and Native American culture, celebrates the peace found in nature and decries its destruction; volumes include Myths... Read more |
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Oe Kenzaburo
Kenzaburo Oe Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe (born 1935) is considered the leading contemporary writer in his language. A 1994 Nobel Prize winner in literature for a body of work that often makes reference to his developmentally disabled son Hikari, Oe has also been a vociferous critic of modern... Read more |
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Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn , 1850-1904, American-Japanese author, b. Lefkás, Ionian Islands, of Irish-Greek parentage. He was educated in Ireland, England, and France before immigrating to the United States in 1869. Handicapped by partial blindness, Hearn was a colorful, imaginative, but morbidly... Read more |
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Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki Leo Esaki (born 1925) was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Esaki was honored for his 1957 pioneering work in electron tunneling in semiconducting materials, which led to his creation of the Esaki diode, or tunnel diode. This technology helped advance research... Read more |
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Heihachiro Togo
Heihachiro Togo Heihachiro Togo (1848-1934) was Japan's greatest admiral, the mentor of Emperor Hirohito, and one of the architects of Japan's emergence as a military power in the twentieth century. His bold naval strategy won the most decisive sea battle in history, the Battle of Tsushima. ... Read more |
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Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier 1944– Professional boxer, entertainer, businessman Influenced By Televised Boxing Boxing Career Began in Slaughterhouse Won Olympic Gold Medal The Fight Of The Century Sources Joe Frazier had many moments in boxing history. It began in 1964 when he won the Olympic... Read more |
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Kodansha Ltd
Kodansha Ltd. 12-21, Otowa 2-chomeBunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8001JapanTelephone: (81) 3-3945-1111Fax: (81) 3-3946-6200Web site: http://www.kodanclub.com Private CompanyIncorporated: 1925 as Dai Nippon Yuben Kai KodanshaEmployees: 1,200Sales: US$1.65 billion (1998)NAIC: 51112 Periodical Publishers;... Read more |
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Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange , 1913-2005, Japanese architect. A graduate of the Univ. of Tokyo, he later taught there and at several American universities. The Hiroshima Peace Center (1949), for which Tange designed three buildings, won him international fame. Influenced by Le Corbusier , Tange was a leading... Read more |
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Koreans in Japan
Koreans in Japan ETHNONYMS: Zainichi Kankoku-Chôsenjin, Zainichi Korian Orientation Identification and Location. Koreans in Japan generally refers to those people who came to that country during Japanese colonia... Read more |
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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi , 1931-97, Italian architectb. Milan; grad. Milan Polytechnic (1959). He began working for the design magazine Casabella-Continuità in 1954 and became its editor a decade later. His book The Architecture of the City (1966, tr. 1982) is a classic of modern architectural theory.... Read more |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Toland dead at 91 Historian best known for...
...won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction...was 91. Mr. Toland died Sunday...daughter Tamiko Toland of Ithaca...perspective. Mr. Toland described the book as "a factual...Although Rising Sun ... |
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TOLAND DIES; CHRONICLED JAPAN IN WORLD WAR II THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING...
...won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction...He was 91. Toland died Sunday...daughter, Tamiko Toland of Ithaca...perspective. Toland described the book as "a factual...Rising Sun" won the ... |
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JOHN TOLAND; WON PULITZER AS `TELLER OF TALES' OF WWII
John Toland, whose popular...whose 1970 book, "The Rising Sun," won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction...Mr. Toland wrote in...best-known books include...resulting book, "Ships...success. Other ... |
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Historian John Toland Dies; Won Pulitzer for 'Rising Sun'
John Toland, 91, the author...Adolf Hitler and won a Pulitzer Prize for his description...Connecticut. Mr. Toland also wrote a book about the Japanese...wanted war with Japan. This theory...review of Mr. ... |
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John Toland, Biographer of Hitler, Dies
...won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction...He was 91.Toland died Sunday...daughter, Tamiko Toland of Ithaca...perspective. Toland described the book as "a factual...Rising Sun" won the ... |