| 单词 | Japanese |
| 例句 | A Japanese man in uniform was telling them, in Japanese, to go inside the barrack for their ken. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were so many people on the Japanese islands that they could not grow enough food to feed everyone. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned and said something to Zu in Japanese, who, in turn, shook her head and reached up to tug the girl’s braid. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “His mother is Japanese and his father is black,” I explained. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Like the year before, we had spent the summer months picking strawberries for Ito, the Japanese sharecropper. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After the war, the Japanese had decided to be prepared for something like that if they had to fight America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese had an estimated 2.5 million troops ready to defend the islands. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But they didn’t see any Japanese soldiers themselves. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked large and coarse, the Japanese man smaller and clear-eyed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Since more Japanese people lived in California than in Iowa, when he and my mother eventually opened a grocery store, it would have stayed in business. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I suspect that the Korean language that was carried to Japan in 400 B.C., and that evolved into modern Japanese, was quite different from the Silla language that evolved into modern Korean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One was the fire ant eradication program in the South; the other was the spraying for the Japanese beetle in the Midwest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This was the army’s wanton destruction in November of five Japanese cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “This is for the rice,” he said in Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A Japanese scroll hung on a wall; it was a picture of Mount Fuji. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They were his war souvenirs, the teeth he had knocked out of the corpse of a Japanese soldier. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her grandparents didn’t have a mirror, but she was absolutely positive the skirt made her look like a girl in a Sears catalog, if they ever had a Japanese girl in the catalog. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The first reports to reach the Japanese capital of Tokyo were panicked and sketchy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If I made myself American-pretty so that the five or six Chinese boys in the class fell in love with me, everyone else—the Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese boys—would too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A correct understanding of who the Japanese people really are, and how they diverged from the closely related Korean people, will be essential to finding that common ground. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She thinks I am Chinese or Japanese because I always order in English or by number or by pointing to what I want on another table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Farm ranchers, most of them, they are outdoor folk of very varied stock—German, Irish, Norwegian, Mexican, Japanese. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Japanese Zeroes began bombing the ships in Battleship Row and destroyed the USS Arizona, Bobby began clapping loudly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z First, planes flew over dropping millions of warning leaflets, written in Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Does the transition mark the replacement of Jomon people with immigrants from Korea, ancestral to the modern Japanese? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “How have your Japanese studies gone?” he asked. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Banzai is a word that the Japanese said when they were saluting their emperor, who was sort of like a god to them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese liked to attack under the cover of night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She probably wouldn’t even care that I’m half Japanese and don’t fit in anywhere. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Her mother predicted that the war with Japan would force all her daughters to decide who they were and then to become more Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He joined the Signal Intelligence Service early in the war and mastered the Japanese language in three months in order to join the fight to crack Japan's secret military communications. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I had just finished stowing a Japanese food packet in my bag when I heard the sharp sound of an explosion from farther up on the trail. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z You can speak, for example, of European classical or the European-American folk tradition, as opposed to Indian Classical50 , Japanese folk, or African-American musics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Even my Japanese and Korean friends say that they sometimes have difficulty guessing whether someone is Japanese or Korean just by looking at his or her face. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That is how it was for the Chamorros when the Japanese soldiers came. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The world was completely quiet except for the ringing of the Fūrin—the Japanese glass wind bell—that hung in a tree. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z However, all the messages sent by Morse code were false, designed to fool any Japanese monitoring our transmissions. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Just whose side he was on is unclear; at a cocktail party, he gave a congressman sensitive information on Japanese aircraft manufacturing. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I think I know why Shoji accepted our Japanese side a long time ago. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A round from a Japanese .77 hit the waves so close to us that our boat rocked like a toy swatted by a giant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At Pearl Harbor, the American intelligence community was taken completely by surprise by the Japanese military. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Not here,” I yelled back to him, ducking as Japanese bullets whizzed over my head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Easy enough as it was to adopt white American values, I still had a Japanese father to frighten my boyfriends and a Japanese face to thwart my social goals. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Five hundred Japanese families lived there then, and FBI deputies had been questioning everyone, ransacking houses for anything that could conceivably be used for signaling planes or ships or that indicated loyalty to the Emperor. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Father had me deliver a watch to an important client on the other side of town yesterday. You know, where the Japanese tile houses are,” she said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The crime of the Japanese erased all lesser sinning. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Japanese,” the medicine man went on, as though he were trying to remember something. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed or damaged 18 warships and nearly 350 planes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of standard English, everyone spoke Hawaiian Pidgin, a language mash-up created by Hawaiians and early Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and American immigrants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Connor wants to go back to the used bookstore where we met because he’s looking for a novel by a Japanese author I’ve never heard of, so we take the train south together. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Reluctant as Japanese and Koreans are to admit it, they are like twin brothers who shared their formative years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why pick it when there were Japanese katanas racked up nearby? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Hanako excitedly bowed to the boy and asked in Japanese, “Is that your sister?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Oh, she was asleep too, I thought, and now she thinks it’s the Japanese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The teeth sucked up the light, and darkness closed around Tayo with an ambush of voices in English and Japanese. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z On a summer evening back in 1939, William had mentioned that his boss had talked to him about the Japanese cipher team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After dinner, while the Yoshotos were discussing, in Japanese, some perhaps provocative topic, I asked to be excused from the table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Soon after that, we students at Navajo High School had our own food drive for the poor, hungry Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, who did the best job in predicting what the Japanese were up to in the summer and fall of 1941? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The Japanese had resisted hard, but our superior numbers had finally forced them to disappear back into the jungle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew that Japanese were obsessed with the way everything was temporary, the way everything was always changing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Bobby’s team also pleaded to the court that it strike down the deportation order requested by the United States and brought by the Japanese Immigration Bureau. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In a banzai attack, every Japanese soldier would leave his post and come running at you with a gun or a sword or even just his bare hands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, allegations of match rigging do occasionally find their way into the Japanese media. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He used the Japanese word, which, naturally, Lynn had already taught me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Proud that he could read the English as well as the Japanese, he figured he’d have an edge over anyone else applying. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Japanese established trading posts on Hokkaido in 1615, they proceeded to treat the Hokkaido Ainu much as white Americans treated Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tell Japanese leaders they could keep their emperor—as long as it would get them to surrender. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, on August 15, Emperor Hirohito spoke over the radio to the Japanese people, telling them that Japan was surrendering. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I started noising around that I was frantic to join ... the Japanese Army. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Scruffy, a checkered blue bow bobbing in his fur, prances up to the Four Paws Spa's arched grand entryway, where the Japanese prime minister's cat is secretly being held hostage by the evil Dr. Loofah. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Are you going to play the Japanese prime minister’s cat?” asked Fred. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Some brave Japanese people tried to let their emperor know how they felt. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, then adding as an afterthought, as if to ease what I knew her answer would have to be, “You know, I’m Japanese.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew she would die of her sickness, or perhaps from thirst, from starvation, or from the Japanese, who she was sure were marching right behind her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Basically, the way to be Japanese in America was to be more American than the Americans. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z No one knew how many Japanese soldiers and civilians would die. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Write your own letter,” she said in Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Dozens of Japanese farmers, he speculated, had stores of dynamite in their sheds and barns which could be used for sabotage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Before the war one of the standard charges made against the Japanese was their clannishness, their standoffishness, their refusal to assimilate. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Japanese musical aesthetics are difficult to apply in the classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There, he had erected a powerful radio transmitter, which he had used to send information to the Japanese government. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z She went back to the house and informed the Japanese man that her husband would be with him shortly; he’d been out among the raspberry canes working. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She was almost as tall as him, because she took after her maternal grandparents who had been tall for Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Japanese man had slipped his mind altogether. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z To the Japanese soldier a life in defeat was not for a moment worth living; he knew he could not return to his people having suffered the humiliation of losing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Eventually, Sam and Bill told me, a few Japanese prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As he delivered his poison against the Jews, the Japanese government, and the United States, he was oddly frisky, as if he’d just become aware that he was free. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Later, when the other Japanese families arrived, we ate all night long: salted rice balls, fish cakes, rice crackers, rice candies, and barbecued chicken. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He went to his top dresser drawer and retrieved a bayonet he had found on a decayed Japanese soldier near an airfield in the Philippines. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they were hooting “Banzai1.,” jeering threats at the MPs and singing songs in Japanese. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z One night a lieutenant named Jim Kent recollected how the former radioman had taken an interest in a dead Japanese boy with his pants turned inside out around his muddy ankles. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a shell from the Japanese guns that had suddenly opened fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a young Japanese man with long, unkempt hair and bad skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “That Japanese whaler. The one seized by the port authorities. Is she still tied up at the docks?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z We would laugh together when we heard him plucking it and whining out old Japanese melodies. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The band was always getting letters from Japanese teenagers begging them to come play, and offering up their homes as crash pads. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Pasang Kami, a Sherpa on the Japanese team, freed Smanla from the rope, then continued down the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Even the Japanese knew they were going to be defeated when they lost their stronghold. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One of those tiny Japanese ones that she could keep in her own room without bothering Judy and Bill, h didn’t seem fair with all their money that they’d gotten rid of the TV. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Having those women and children to defend probably made the Japanese soldiers resist even harder. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the kamikaze attacks flown by Japanese pilots, taran wasn’t meant to be a suicide maneuver. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Japanese man had seemed uncertain about entering her house that afternoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The Japanese women were holding small children by the hands, and they were surrounded by bundles and suitcases. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He played Old Maid with Karen and Matt with the same competitiveness as when he battled Japanese pilots in the Pacific. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While we were arguing about what was Chinese and what was Japanese, I noticed this family of five tall blond people standing near us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Japanese forest composition varies with latitude and altitude: evergreen leafy forest in the south at low altitude, deciduous leafy forest in central Japan, and coniferous forest in the north and at high altitude. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t seriously concerned about the Japanese crew, from Tokyo Imperial University. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Japanese area became San Francisco’s Harlem in a matter of months. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned after the war that as a result of that attitude the Japanese prisoner- of-war camps were terrible places. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was stealth cool, the only one in their room that knew what Liam was talking about when he started in on Japanese horror flicks or articles from back issues of Rolling Stone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She could imagine it because of the faces of the Japanese soldiers, of the truck drivers, of the people watching the train roll by their villages. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He had terrible scars all over his chest from when the Japanese had tied him to a tree and tortured him by stabbing him with their bayonets. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He decorates his apartment, pinning some Japanese prints on the walls, and he sets up a tiny studio—a “cubby-hole”—in the same building as his flat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He kept a close eye on his handpicked SIS unit as they fought to crack German, Italian, and Japanese systems, but for the most part he let them get on with the job by themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In contrast, I’m told, the businesses of Route 128 are much more secretive and insulated from one another, like Japanese milk-producing companies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But when the Japanese took over their island, our enemies made it into another military fortress. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In their genes and skeletons as well as in external appearance, the Japanese are very similar to other East Asians, including North Chinese, East Siberians, and especially Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s me split in half—Japanese and white—stitching myself together again because I am whole only when I’ve embraced the true beauty of my heritage. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He tells Vincent that he’d seen a painting that Claude Monet “had made of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Japanese, though, like the monster beings in our old stories, preferred to strike in the darkness. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Alba liked to sit with the cook at siesta time, listening to popular singing on the radio, especially the songs of the man she had met in the Japanese Gardens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All the nurses at the hospital took turns coming to see him when he was born—they had never seen a Japanese baby before. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z In typical Japanese fashion, they all wanted to be independent commercial fishermen, yet they almost always fished together. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese often attacked American convoys with airplanes sent out from their aircraft carriers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Vincent is experimenting with different styles: aspects of pointillism, mixed with the more graphic approach of the Japanese paintings he loves. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At ten o’clock Mr. Oshiro called again; armed men had posted themselves around Amity Harbor out of fear of a Japanese attack. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Among modern world powers, the most distinctive in their culture and environment are the Japanese people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Even though they were interned, the Japanese created a community in the camp, so Mas was able to bring everything Jeanne had written to life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When the Japanese arrived and prepared to execute the wounded, Duckworth berated them so roundly that they beat him severely but spared his companions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A young girl was crowned Strawberry Princess; the hakujin put on a salmon bake; the Volunteer Fire Department played a softball game against the Japanese Community Center team. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z So it seemed only fitting that we were back together on a Tuesday, here in the house with the Japanese maple out front. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After biology and language, our third type of evidence about Japanese origins comes from ancient portraits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the letters mentioned “family,” they referred to either the Japanese fleet or other agents, depending on context. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I figured I could gradually lower the barrel at the screen, aim, and pick off one of the Japanese troops. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z By the time Admiral Conolly was done, the Japanese beach defenses were pulverized. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We know how confusing we find it when native-born Japanese people speak English without distinguishing / and r: imagine the confusion if our alphabet did the same while similarly homogenizing the other consonants that I mentioned! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I draw five Japanese women with very different faces, but all of them are equally beautiful because beauty is not just one thing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z On some days, they were joined by a neatly dressed Japanese emigre who lingered on the edges of the group. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Imbuing violence with holy meaning,” wrote the historian Iris Chang, “the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Instead, Japanese and Ainu have no demonstrable relationship, and the relationship between Japanese and Korean is distant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In his simple remarks he confirmed for them that America was still great, still number one in the weekly top twenty poll, whatever the threat of the Japanese and the Germans and OPEC. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I could have sworn he was in that one, with the Japanese . The passengers wandered off in different directions. ‘He must be on the next one.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Japanese Americans like me were locked up. Our family field was taken, the field I grew up in. The field of my heart.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z She mumbled in Japanese, but Jiichan said, “We speak English. I enjoy it very much.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then her face crinkles in delight at the sight of Hideo—she utters a small laugh, calls out to someone over her shoulder in Japanese, and then holds her arms out at him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Two Marines had just been wounded in their arms and legs by shrapnel when they tried to retrieve a seemingly discarded .35 caliber Japanese machine pistol. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z How I wished that the Japanese would behave that way. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A thin Japanese guy only a few inches taller than the Colonel, Takumi talked with his mouth full as I chewed slowly, savoring the bean-y crunch. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Doha knew him to be a huge fan of Americans, although his admiration was solely based on the fact that they resoundingly beat the Imperial Japanese Army. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Less than an hour after the Japanese bombed Hawaii, mines were being laid in San Francisco Bay. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Tayo hated this unending rain as if it were the jungle green rain and not the miles of marching or the Japanese grenade that was killing Rocky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite the sound and fury of our shelling and our air attack, the Japanese pillboxes had been untouched. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he takes me to restaurants, with checked tablecloths and candles stuck in Chianti bottles; sometimes to foreign films about Swedes and Japanese, in small uncrowded theaters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Our leaders were still innocent about how many American lives it would cost to defeat the determined Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was never the case. Couldn’t be. The Japanese never came to Kweilin.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As more of their loved ones died on faraway islands, many Japanese people saw that nothing was possible but defeat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The rifle was wrapped up in the Japanese flag, right on top where Dad always kept it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ernest’s colleagues observed his “obvious distress” all weekend long; Compton suggested that he was excessively swayed by the friendships he had forged with Japanese physicists who had worked on the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, ancient Japanese pottery was technologically simple by today’s standards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It is good for the children to go,” Jiichan was saying in Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Kennedy became a hero for his effort to save his men from the Japanese. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The world's first nuclear attack stunned the Soviet leader, but not out of pity for the Japanese victims. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Today two more families would be in mourning in the town of Guadalupe, and indirectly the far-off war of the Japanese and the Germans had come to claim two victims in New Mexico. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “But I don’t know if you want me to be American or Japanese. Mama, I don’t understand!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Dad’s the only person I know from the Japanese side of the family—the side I feel like I’m supposed to be connected to, even though I don’t know anything about it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Maybe it was already loaded in the Japanese gun from which it would be fired; maybe it was in an ammunition roll. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I studied the African women, the big white-haired man, the fat couple and their children, the Japanese tourists. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the terrain was so difficult, with hills and mountains, jungle and swamp, it would be hard for the Japanese to get reinforcements quickly. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been sitting behind me sharpening his bayonet and listening as I explained what a sennimbari meant to a Japanese soldier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Not wanting to jeopardize their ascent by stopping to assist him, the Japanese team continued climbing toward the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z His whole family had been killed when the Japanese invaded. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the favorite things that we salvaged were the supply packages that were the Japanese equivalent of our cans of C- rations. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone outside the close community of Japanese Americans had actually seen the camp, with its multitude of people and its swarm of buildings on the plain between the mountains. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The hit of the village was the Japanese contingent, whose tradition of prodigious gift giving made them the collective Santa Claus of the Games. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Unlike many of her classmates, she hadn’t gone to Japanese school before the war, which was why she couldn’t read and write the language. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A member of the Japanese parliament was willing to meet with the committee to see whether there was a way he could help. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z However, anyone, including the Japanese, could listen to our radio messages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, Japanese women joined men on the sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We were the only Japanese family in the neighborhood. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't till the soil or weed the flowerbeds or try to graft a tree limb; I sat in the shade and listened to my Japanese language instruction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z From high in the sky B-29s dropped thousands of tons of high explosives on every Japanese city. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “You hear of Japanese legend, 'Thousand Origami Cranes’?” When we shake our heads, she continues. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Those Japanese food packets were much more interesting than our C-rations. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he brought some of his Navajo friends to the Marines in San Diego to demonstrate how our language could be used to send messages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z So he goes inside and draws, modeling his work after the Japanese prints he loves so much. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Finally, peoples named in these other three theories could have mixed to form the modem Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To Kiyoshi, he explained in Japanese, “You come back in the early morning one week from now. You must work hard, though.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Although I did not know it at the time, grandchildren, all through the war many Japanese citizens were imprisoned or murdered because they spoke out against it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the villagers were watching for Japanese airplanes that strafed the mountainsides every day. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked in the Japanese embassy and lived in an apartment building popular among congressmen. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Four more islanders of Japanese descent—this was a frontpage article—enlisted in the United States Army. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The program was conducted by the Michigan Department of Agriculture with the cooperation of the United States Department of Agriculture; its announced purpose was control of the Japanese beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At Smyrna the Japanese had been the only country to send ships to rescue refugees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Michigan spraying was one of the first large-scale attacks on the Japanese beetle from the air. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The COO, Mari, turns to Hideo and asks him something in Japanese. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So the hand- drawn plans are sent electronically to China, where they are converted into digital designs, which then are e-mailed back to the Japanese building firm, which turns them into manufacturing blueprints. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Several rows of buttons were set into the command console in front of me, all labeled in Japanese. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In English, that meant: To all units: Japanese are booby-trapping personnel equipment, installations, and bivouacs. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he would be her first Japanese friend! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Like Arabs and Jews, Koreans and Japanese are peoples joined by blood, yet locked in traditional enmity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sounds of firing were still all around me as the Japanese continued to cover the beach with their well- planned ambush. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next 35 years, Japanese occupation forces tried to eradicate Korean culture and to replace Korean with the Japanese language in schools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Jackie, if you are in there playing with your dad’s Japanese stuff again I’m going to tell him about the other night.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I live now where there are Chinese and Japanese, but no emigrants from my own village looking at me as if I had failed them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese cheered from the deck and I rolled over and with one arm dog-paddled my way to the Beaver, where I grabbed the towline and held on. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Though this was supposed to be a chartered train that the deportees had paid for, a mass of Japanese soldiers in their khaki uniforms and caps pushed on board. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The FBI begins to round up members of the Japanese American communities on the West Coast. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z A US serviceman walked with a Japanese girl in heavy makeup. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z So Japanese people were given honorary white status while Chinese people stayed black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Many Japanese had been killed or injured and their homes had been destroyed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z No living people were to be seen, but there were many bodies of native people, who’d been slaughtered by the angry Japanese as they pulled back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a gray-haired woman, surely a head taller than her husband, with features that looked rather more Malayan than Japanese. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z In some of his portraits he imitates the Japanese style he loves: framing the head in surprising ways, using strong colors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mother says while she was giving birth to me, there was a big uproar, with the announcement that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But for the most part, these traces were obliterated, with the hedges running wild and native trees—slippery elm and tamarack—outnumbering the quince and Japanese maple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They would help anyone who came, be they Japanese, American Indian, or Latino, and whether they were in the United States legally or not. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One lady screeched at Hanako in Japanese, “I will buy your coat!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He tried to hop around an orange he’d seen on the ground, but he stumbled and crashed into a group of Japanese tourists. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want anything to do with them! Do you hear me? I don’t want to be Japanese!” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We heard the names of islands thousands of miles away where the Japanese were attacking American and Allied bases in the Pacific. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy Robeson, a Marine who’d refused to pose for the picture, shot one of the Japanese soldiers before he could get to the flag and Louis Charlo took care of the other one. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The suicide planes that the Japanese were now sending against us were among those secrets kept from those at home. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I was almost demolished during World War II on account of my seeming Japanese. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z By the time of the Kofun period, all Japanese skeletons except those of the Ainu formed a homogeneous group, resembling modern Japanese and Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In all of these respects, Jomon skulls differ from those of modern Japanese and are most similar to those of modem Ainu, while Yayoi skulls most resemble those of modern Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the Japanese did replace the Ainu over Japan south of Hokkaido, that replacement must have occurred before A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the scene cut to a young Japanese soldier aiming his sniper rifle, which looked just like mine. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In one day of breathtaking violence, a new Japanese onslaught had begun. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The end of the Ice Age was accompanied by the first of the two most decisive changes in Japanese history: the invention of pottery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese hadn’t quite finished off all the marines and I figured I’d be a marine too and help defend them. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z War Relocation Authority announced that islanders of Japanese descent had eight days to prepare to leave. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Like a majorette before the ever-shifting sidewalk crowd, I smiled during performances, and in Japanese dancing that is equivalent to a concert violinist walking onstage in a bathing suit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Pottery helped those Japanese hunter-gatherers to exploit their environment’s rich food resources more than 10,000 years before intensive agriculture reached Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the Japanese environment is so productive that it was one of the few locations where people could settle down and make pottery while still living as hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were great warriors, those Japanese, and had been for hundreds of years. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the British concession and the Japanese. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the Japanese returning to the coast resettled without suffering bodily harm. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And I would have loved it if I knew something about being Japanese that didn't make my mother turn her nose up. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Only a few Koreans of Japanese inscriptions before the year A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He said he could see himself in Japanese cartoons in a way he couldn't with American ones, so he started collecting Japanese comics. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I was watching a Japanese cartoon about a kid who drives a robot when she decided to solve the problem. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z New Year’s is the biggest holiday of the year for the Japanese. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Ole, leaning on his cane, stood below and told him about the Japanese man’s visit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Japanese soldiers had been taught that there was only one thing to do when things were hopeless, when they were surrounded, or when their leaders were killed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Air strikes had also wiped out all of the Japanese planes on Guam that might have attacked our invading forces. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “First we were oppressed by the Japanese; now we are caught between Russia and China on one side, and the Americans on the other. When will free Koreans control our own destiny?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In school they had learned to speak simple Japanese and paint pictures of the three beautiful places. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When the sergeant told them to kill all the Japanese soldiers lined up in front of the cave with their hands on their heads, Tayo could not pull the trigger. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps their distinctive external appearance involves relatively few genes that arose through sexual selection after they migrated from mainland Asia and became isolated on the Japanese archipelago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She said, “Thank you for coming here with me. Now I have a Japanese mountain rock.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was as though Leper had learned it while in captivity, far from Devon or Vermont or any experience we had in common, as though it were in Japanese. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, in Japanese, “I have heard there were America-gaeri here in the village.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “The saddest part of Saipan,” Wilfred told me, “was those Japanese civilians.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Yayoi iron tools were initially imported from Korea in enormous quantities, until domestic Japanese iron smelting and production began after several centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We thought of the fighting men who were set for an invasion which would be so very costly in both American and Japanese lives,” Compton reflected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, loathing of the Japanese is widespread in Korea, and contempt for Koreans is widespread in Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the Japanese people are biologically undistinctive, being very similar in their appearance and genes to other East Asians, especially to Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The air was softer than it had been on the other side of the Great Divide and I seemed to remember reading that the warm airs from over the Japanese current penetrate deep inland. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved that we lived within rollerblading distance of a local Japanese market that sold candy with edible wrappers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z We must never forget, as the Japanese forgot, that all life is holy. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The man leading the prayer had spoken more advanced Japanese than she could then understand. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “The Japanese forced us into it. And on a Sunday morning, when no one was ready. It’s cheap, if you ask me. They—” “Look at my face,” interrupted Hatsue. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z New information about Japanese genetics and language origins, accumulating since the book’s first publication, now encourages me to test how Japan fits into my overall framework. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An even more important role has been played by a bacterial disease that affects beetles of the family to which the Japanese beetle belongs — the scarabaeids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hatsue’s father— he spoke in Japanese—asked Mr. Oshiro if in fact there were submarines and if the rumors of an invasion of Oregon and California were factual. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It seemed such an odd thing for a Japanese person to do. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Air strikes from Bougainville would soon be hitting the main Japanese base at Rabaul so hard that it would be wiped out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Portions printed in a different font were spoken in Japanese, which I had translated. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Before we turn to the evidence from archaeology, let us consider the evidence of Japanese origins from biology, linguistics, early portraits, and recorded history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like Japanese forests, Japanese waters are outstandingly productive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our first effort was a Japanese play called The Stolen Prince. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I only wondered which hills the Japanese had reached. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Karaoke is itself the Japanese word for embarrassing oneself by singing in front of a room filled with strangers who are only there to laugh at you. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Moving through the night sea in enemy waters, our ships were always kept in blackout so they couldn’t be seen by Japanese planes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Interestingly, at the same time, Japanese people were labeled as white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z All these facts seem to suggest that the Japanese reached Japan recently from the East Asian mainland and displaced the Ainu, who represent the original inhabitants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With no supporting evidence, it was believed that Japanese Americans would act as spies and saboteurs for Japan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Chang cited a 1933 speech by a Japanese general: “Every single bullet must be charged with the Imperial Way, and the end of every bayonet must have National Virtue burnt into it.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z By noon, the sky was streaked with Japanese bombers, buildings were exploding, and a few startled men on less than three square miles of coral found themselves on the front in the Second World War. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Hugo said, “Nothing wrong with Japanese hi-fi technology, either.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z That is not true of questions about Japanese origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1998, Japanese observers reported that neutrinos do have mass, but not a great deal–about one ten-millionth that of an electron. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He bought him a Japanese toy truck one year, an electric locomotive and train track set another year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I saw a Japanese movie I really liked once. I don’t remember the name of it.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, those first Japanese potters were clearly hunter-gatherers, and that also violated established views. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Korean is also often considered to be an isolated member of this family, and within the family Japanese and Korean may be more related to each other than to other Altaic languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are stalls for stolen artwork, poached ivory, currency exchange between virtual notes and bitcoins and Japanese yen, and, of course, gambling on both Warcross and Darkcross games. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A Japanese, on the other hand, must see that life embraces death, and when she feels the truth of this she will gain tranquillity. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A half a mile east of it were hundreds of acres of strawberries cultivated by Japanese sharecroppers and harvested by people from the camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then they searched for subtle repetitions that would reveal the pattern of the switches that drove the Japanese machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Japanese were outnumbered and suffered huge losses, but then a typhoon blew in, pounding and sinking many Mongolian ships. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It’s not clear, but perhaps she was thinking about Japanese naval codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Uhmma and Grill Woman spoke in a language of mixed and chopped Korean and Japanese, glued together with pieces of English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s why he picked manga—because he knew the last thing Mom would ever want to do is look at Japanese comic books. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But archaeologists studying Jomon Japan have found little evidence of direct imports from China, in contrast to China’s big influence on subsequent Japanese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s a Japanese garden on one side, bare rock on the other. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Like the second theory, this one considers modern Japanese to be slightly modified Koreans but dispenses with the need for large-scale immigration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The U.S. military had, in fact, broken many of the key Japanese codes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As for the Ainu language, its relationships are thoroughly in doubt; it may not have any special relationship to Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is not the case that all cultural advances in East Asia stemmed from China and that Koreans, Japanese, and tropical Southeast Asians were noninventive barbarians who contributed nothing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The biggest Marine force ever assembled was going to assault the Japanese stronghold of Iwo Jima, only 600 miles south of Tokyo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Dug deep into the coral ten yards back from the beach, roofed with coconut palm logs and concealed under a thatch of leaves, 300 Japanese had waited out the storm. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Reading for the first time about the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II, he went on to lecture about it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z With blueprints in hand he tramped through the Japanese community—to hostels, trailer courts, other housing projects like ours— trying to find families who would invest in it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And now she was being told she would need to learn to be more Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Soon some Japanese leased small plots of land and entered into business for themselves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was one of the many small riverside farms operated by the descendants of Japanese immigrants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At last her father rounded the Willys and spoke to her once in Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In the back of Judge Lew Fielding’s courtroom sat twenty-four islanders of Japanese ancestry, dressed in the clothes they reserved for formal occasions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Any Japanese defeat was too embarrassing for the military leaders to admit to their immediate superiors, much less to their divine emperor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Japanese naval superiors had recently transferred the man to Washington, D.C., the informant said, to continue acting under their orders. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z That and the fact that I was Japanese were the two reasons the girls at school ignored me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z As Japanese planes dove over Oahu, more than two thousand miles to the west, a few marines were sitting in a mess tent on Wake Atoll, having breakfast. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Eunice jumped in and said, “For your information, he’s black and Japanese. Can’t you tell the difference between a Japanese name and a Chinese name?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z That had been six years ago, the same year the Japanese had killed Sunjin’s father for being a resistance fighter. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A large window looks out over the Japanese garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He tucks the Japanese prime minister's cat under one arm like a football as he fumbles in his pockets for...a remote! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They spoke to him in English, and when he did not answer, there was a discussion and he heard the Japanese words vividly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Then Ms. Platt asked them to “demonstrate Basic Seven,” and the whole class followed along while counting out loud in Japanese. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “A kimono is Japanese,” I said, as if I knew the difference. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is not a pure karate class, Ms. Brennan—we incorporate several martial arts. But we do use a little Japanese, so if you don't understand something, always feel free to ask.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Another article reported that at the Japanese Community Center hall in Amity Harbor a reception had been held for Robert Sakamura, who’d been inducted into the army. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When the thunder and lightning began, people confused it with Japanese bombs and would not leave their houses. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Five hundred feet above the South Col, where the steep shale gave way to a gender slope of snow, Namba’s oxygen ran out, and the diminutive Japanese woman sat down, refusing to move. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the coming months, he would declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally declare a total trade embargo. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he had been drafted and fought for the 442nd, the combat unit made up of Japanese American men. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Central to the Japanese identity was the belief that it was Japan’s divinely mandated right to rule its fellow Asians, whom it saw as inherently inferior. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Its provisions include a formal apology to the Japanese American internees. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Before he leaves, he decorates the apartment with art—Japanese prints and his own paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mr. Kapasi watched as they crossed paths with a Japanese man and woman, the only other tourists there, who paused for a final photograph, then stepped into a nearby car and drove away. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As they approached the halfway mark, the exhausted Japanese suddenly and predictably began to fade and fall away behind the field, along with the Czechs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Didn't your dad ever make you guys Japanese food when you were little? Or take you to a Japanese restaurant?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It is so characteristically Japanese, the way lives were made more tolerable by gathering loose desert stones and forming with them something enduringly human. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, at noon traditionally, the Japanese began picking raspberries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z To the dismay of the Japanese climbers, however, the ladder was falling apart and had become partially detached from the rock, so ninety minutes of strenuous climbing were required to surmount this 20-foot cliff. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese are a wonderful little people fond of dancing and light wines. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The Japanese had attacked the United States at a place called Pearl Harbor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair—blue-black, thick and straight—did not have the hard sheen of the hair of a Chinese or Japanese but had the soft look of fabric. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Outside, Taft and Will are goofing around in the Japanese garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The Japanese Imperial general headquarters wanted to bleed us white. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I was kind of a celebrity in my neighborhood, the little Japanese girl who said “you all” instead of “you,” and “You don’t sah-eee” instead of “Really?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z By century’s turn over three hundred Japanese had arrived on San Piedro, most of them schooner hands who jumped ship in Port Jefferson Harbor in order to remain in the United States. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Before the war they had run an orphanage in Los Angeles for children of Japanese ancestry. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Japanese prime minister made a second trip to North Korea in 2004, Jenkins and his daughters were also allowed to leave. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh seized the opportunity to fill the power vacuum left by the Japanese defeat. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was an American who didn’t know anything about Japanese making the announcement, because there was no V in Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Korean families that have lived in Japan for several generations still find it difficult to acquire Japanese citizenship. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese athletes were especially taken with the deer and began feeding them treats in such volume that the Germans discreetly moved the deer out. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z A butler overheard the president speculating on what he’d do if Japanese forces advanced as far as Chicago. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In The Stolen Prince I was the property man, and I also played a pennywhistle, in an imitation of Japanese music, for atmosphere. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z As they descended past the First Step—where on the way up they had climbed past Paljor, crumpled and raving in the snow—the Japanese party now saw no sign of the third Ladakhi. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They had been there long before the Japanese invaded. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Scuttlebutt around the base was that the Third’s job would be to take Bougainville, an enemy air base in the Solomon Islands where the Japanese were dug in deep. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue-green vapor lines of Japanese tracer bullets stitched the air above our heads. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m the best Japanese chess player I know,” he said. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Although the Japanese said they were liberating the island, they used the native people like slaves, beating or killing them if they tried to escape. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The liquid was pale green, the color of Japanese green tea. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a kind of poem the Japanese write. It never rhymes, but it always has seventeen syllables.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese man passed her, turned to his left, and perched on the edge of the bench sofa. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Because the Japanese knew the jungle and we did not, wed all been ordered to keep close watch as soon as it got dark. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes singled out a chubby Japanese woman surrounded by four chubby Japanese children. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The Americans were fighting an air and sea war against the Japanese in the Pacific. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Are Dalian residents bothered by working for the Japanese, whose government has still never formally apologized for what the wartime Japanese government did to China? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Riverbank had a Roman pool, a Dutch windmill, a Japanese garden, and staff from all over the world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His family came to America to follow the American dream, but when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they were forced into internment camps. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Now Filipino men were imported to the sugar fields to compete with the Chinese and Japanese. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ole had remembered the Japanese man’s promise: how he’d stood in the fields and vowed that one day he would get his family’s land back. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was important to talk just a little more loudly than some of the girls who were being raised to be more Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In those last days of fighting after the Japanese pulled back from the Tiyan airfields on August 7, our patrols pushed their way through the jungle, pursuing them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years of wartime propaganda—racist headlines, atrocity movies, hate slogans, and fright- mask posters—had turned the Japanese face into something despicable and grotesque. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She also went to my favorite little Japanese cafe and got me a bento box of Japanese fried chicken with rice, miso soup, and potato salad. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z On top of Mount Suribachi the Japanese had placed big antiaircraft guns to shoot at our bombers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are superior and inferior races in the world,” said the Japanese politician Nakajima Chikuhei in 1940, “and it is the sacred duty of the leading race to lead and enlighten the inferior ones.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Also widespread in Japan is the theory that the Japanese are descended from horse-riding Central Asian nomads who passed through Korea to conquer Japan in the 4th century A.D. but who were emphatically not Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “To China? Didn’t the Japanese once colonize China, leaving a very bad taste in the mouths of the Chinese?” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s of white almond blossoms against a blue sky, an echo of the Japanese style Vincent loves so much. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Detroit experience has been repeated in many other communities as pressure has mounted to combat the Japanese beetle with chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Many Japanese Americans had both American and Japanese names that they used, but Auntie only called herself “Jean,” and Hanako didn’t even know her other name. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z That was why they fought on until almost every one of the 20,000 Japanese soldiers was dead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d hung out here in his chat room for a few hours the previous evening, watching old Japanese monster movies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’d really wanted to see a Japanese horror movie, but it was sold out. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The woman apologized profusely in Japanese, and then another in the line vomited, and they were all silent again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Given his training and the desperate situation with the Japanese, he figures he’ll be heading to the Central Pacific to assist Allied forces in that region, but nobody knows for sure. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But I’m only half Japanese—I’m the same amount of Asian as I am white. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He was the only Japanese in town who owned a house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z President Roosevelt hoped Japanese leaders would be convinced to stop their armies from advancing further. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were Japanese demons too; she knew that. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “The Japanese in a predawn surprise attack have destroyed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. I repeat. The White House has confirmed that the Japanese...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The palm divides the kitchen from the living room, which has a sleek black couch and a small Japanese maple in the corner. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z After ten short minutes the buses pass Manzanar, the old Japanese American internment camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Then suddenly came the announcement: “Japanese repatriates will begin disembarking beginning with R through V.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her officers were Japanese, her crew was Taiwanese, and she was large and impressive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And the war would only get more ferocious as the Allies battled closer to the Japanese mainland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As we eat, Hideo’s parents speak Japanese to each other in low voices, sneaking occasional smiles at me as if they think their movements are too stealthy for me to notice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sensei—or teacher—had conducted class in Japanese, and while she could keep up with the spoken language, she couldn’t keep up in the reading and writing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And then there is the case of a Swedish farmer, strangely reminiscent of that of the Japanese fisherman Kuboyama of the tuna vessel the Lucky Dragon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The chronicles are also full of accounts of Koreans in Japan and of Japanese in Korea—interpreted by Japanese or Korean historians respectively as evidence of Japanese conquest of Korea or the reverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Day after day in Japanese school at Tule Lake, she’d thought about whether she would really ever go to Japan and when. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Both avatars looked Japanese, and they bore a striking resemblance to one another, like snapshots of the same young man taken five years apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Nose tombs” in Japan still contain the noses cut off of 20,000 Koreans and brought to Japan as trophies of a 16th-century Japanese invasion of that country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We went to my favorite restaurant, a little Japanese cafe that has a Maneki-neko statue. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The Chamorros had stayed loyal to us after the Japanese came, and they tried to resist. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Some other Japanese industries are organized very differently from the food processors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We call ourselves the United Nations, because Isabella is Puerto Rican and Julia is Japanese American, and then there’s me—and yes, we know Black isn’t a nation, but we also know we are united. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z German pilgrims, Italians humming hymns, and Japanese travelers wearing small purple caps converged on the same narrow pathways. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Taking care of the American dead was the first priority in combat and as a result, the bodies of the Japanese soldiers were often left unburied for days. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All thirty-two Japanese in town showed up, including a new baby. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It is the way Chinese sounds, chingchong ugly, to American ears, not beautiful like Japanese sayonara words with the consonants and vowels as regular as Italian. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But whether or not there actually is such a look, Seanie and I just had an intense and wordless conversation about Japanese poetry, his balls, and our gay friend, Joey Cosentino. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If the Japanese really are recent arrivals from Korea, you might expect the Japanese and Korean languages to be very similar to each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was funny how so many people ignored my mother, but they were all fascinated by this little Japanese baby. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The core class included farm workers, families of soldiers killed during the Korean War, families of troops who had served with Kim II Sung fighting against Japanese occupation, and government workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Mom and I even learned a few words of Japanese just in case. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The bowls were surprisingly pretty, colorful and matching but not identical, in the Japanese way. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He printed a notice from the defense authority telling Japanese nationals on San Piedro that as of December 14 they could no longer ride the ferries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I was not so worried about the Japanese as I was about getting onto that boat and all that water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese were in every corner of China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The law said they could not own land unless they became citizens; it also said they could not become citizens so long as they were Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z From where I am, I see her bow low and ask something in Japanese. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There was a heavy rainstorm. The Japanese were attacking and I had to get a message to Second Battalion. Just then, though, wouldn’t you know it, my radio went out. “ Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z New recruits would roam the streets, laughing and talking about fighting the Japanese. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At one time or another, the patriotism of particular immigrant groups—such as Italians, Germans, and the Japanese—has been questioned. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Now, the Japanese people are understandably concerned about maintaining their traditions in the face of massive Western cultural influence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But Vincent enjoyed the landscape from the train; it reminded him of winter scenes by Japanese artists. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This traditional Japanese form of storytelling will draw students in while they make connections with music, the visual arts, language arts, history, culture, and character education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There were ghost plagues, bandit plagues, wars with the Japanese, floods. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the only one in the theater to do so—much to the embarrassment of the Japanese. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “We can go to Portland Saturday. Go to the Japanese Gardens and go out for dinner at Beau Thai.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 19, as some four million Japanese waved handkerchiefs and shouted “Banzai!” the Zeppelin circled Tokyo and sank onto a landing field. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Dad had gotten a Japanese cookbook and tried out almost all the recipes. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He was dive-bombing a house like the Japanese did when they bombed Pearl Harbor. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A lot of Japanese civilians gave us the once-over. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Demure and reserved, the forty-seven-year-old Namba was forty minutes away from becoming the oldest woman to climb Everest and the second Japanese woman to reach the highest point on each continent, the so-called Seven Summits. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z To acknowledge that the Japanese language is related to any other language seems to constitute a surrender of cultural identity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After they moved to Tule Lake, she changed from American school to Japanese school. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No longer would thousands of Japanese men be thrown at the invading Americans in banzai charges. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no point in trying to conceal anything or in trying to pretend they were not Japanese—the hakujin could see it in their faces; they were going to have to accept this. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but he can actually speak it. Even Dad doesn't know Japanese. It’s kind of weird.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mas Okui, who was forced to leave his school and go live in a Japanese internment camp, ended up becoming a teacher. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The Japanese government made it sound as if these men would be great heroes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the Japanese American Citizens League were being called inu for having helped the army arrange a peaceful and orderly evacuation. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of this, they contacted both the United States and Japanese embassies in Reykjavik to protest Fischer’s incarceration. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She bought plants called philodendrons from a Japanese man who had one hundred thousand plants in his nursery. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The vote was unanimous, although one member, navy undersecretary Ralph Bard, presently dissented from the third recommendation, resigned his post, and proposed to Stimson that the Japanese receive two or three days’ warning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If the milk were produced at 11:59 p.m., the date on the container would have to indicate that the milk was made yesterday, and no Japanese consumer would buy it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This second transition poses in acute form our question about who the Japanese are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I walked past the mountain laurels and the Japanese maple, up the bluestone steps of Morrie’s house. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii rather than invaded the continental United States was a distinction that neither of us bothered to quibble over. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the southern tip of Kyushu to the northern tip of Hokkaido, the Japanese archipelago is nearly 1,500 miles long. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Marines had captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of the American military. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t know that he doesn’t hate the Japanese, not even the Japanese soldiers who were grim-faced watching Tayo and the corporal stumble with the stretcher. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z About the time I went to bed she and Papa began to sing songs in Japanese, warming their hands on either side of the stove, facing each other in its glow. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese beetle, an insect accidentally imported into the United States, was discovered in New Jersey in 1916, when a few shiny beetles of a metallic green color were seen in a nursery near Riverton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Japanese field soldier, trained in the art of kendo, or stick fighting, was exceptionally proficient at killing in this manner. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Japanese planes bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “You better be saving me, Beyonce, or I swear I will come back like one of those too-much-eyeliner ghosts in a Japanese movie and haunt you forever!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The entire Japanese garrison on Saipan of 20,000 men was wiped out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Joy Luck was an idea my mother remembered from the days of her first marriage in Kweilin, before the Japanese came. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to call one of his Japanese chess friends for help, but Immigration denied him access to a phone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I already mentioned that the invention of pottery in Kyushu around 12,700 years ago and the resulting Jomon population explosion were the first of two decisive changes in Japanese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All that fighting had happened without seeing even one Japanese soldier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And there were sections of the city where different foreigners lived—Japanese, White Russians, Americans, and Germans—but never together, all with their own separate habits, some dirty, some clean. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese government propaganda frightened those poor people so much that they didn’t allow themselves to be captured. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z That left the Marines on Guadalcanal without any naval support, only half of their supplies, and 50,000 Japanese ready to wipe them out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z History gives them good reason to dislike each other: especially, for Koreans to dislike Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To maintain some hold on his selfesteem Papa began to pursue his doomed plan for setting up a housing cooperative among the returning Japanese. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Kabuo Miyamoto rose in the witness box so that the citizens in the gallery saw him fully—a Japanese man standing proudly before them, thick and strong through the torso. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He said again that he thought of himself as the best Japanese chess player in the whole United States. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They were dangerous egomaniacs and utterly convinced that Japanese women worshiped them for their pale skin and for their ambitious courage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He is now spearheading a drive to outsource low-end Japanese jobs to Japanese-speaking call centers and service providers in China. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z If the Chamorros refused to work for the Japanese, they were shot or put into concentration camps on the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When the police came around asking questions, my father said, “No read Japanese. Japanese words. Me Chinese.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I took some sleeping pills and went to the movies: Japanese film, I couldn’t seem to follow it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The ballroom burst with color and energy: Japanese in red silk, Bedouins in red and black, Romanians in red, blue, and yellow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We didn’t know that either, until an article appeared the next day in the Santa Monica paper, saying he had been arrested for delivering oil to Japanese submarines offshore. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially in their eye shapes, those statues unmistakably depict East Asians, such as modern Japanese or Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why does the Japanese food-processing industry, like the German beer industry, consist of small companies with local monopolies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She speaks Arabic and Japanese fluently, and she has been to more countries than any of us because she gets to travel with her mom for photo shoots and fashion shows. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Then a Japanese man came to Chicago and started a school to teach Japanese Americans how to sex chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “If you knew the amount of overtime I had to put in after the last Japanese earthquake!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The May-Johnson Bill would meet its legislative doom thanks to opposition from the scientists and public skepticism about military control, energized by public missteps such as the destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In late June, American forces had finally taken the island of Okinawa, 340 miles from the Japanese mainland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “A kimono is Japanese,” I said, as if I knew the difference. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In the years since the war ended I have met former Japanese soldiers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all, his sorties reinforced his belief that the Wooded Island, despite the Japanese temple, should be made as wild as possible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The letter, which was recovered from the rubble of Nagasaki, did not reach Sagane until after the Japanese surrender. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t read and write well in Japanese,” she admitted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She would kneel in her kimono and speak very softly in Japanese, while her young assistant would gracefully swing closed knees or bend her swanlike neck to the old geisha’s instructions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “You figure because you’re from Japanese folks nobody will believe you anyway.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We shall see that ancient Japanese societies were among the most remarkable in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Those are two Japanese poems. They’re not full of a lot of emotional stuff,” Teddy said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Here are some of the conclusions that I gleaned from conversations with McKinsey executives and from their reports: We Americans often fantasize that German and Japanese industries are super-efficient, exceeding American industries in productivity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You see how well our natives live?” a government official would proudly tell a bus full of incredulous American, Japanese and European tourists. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a lot of talk about internment, or moving inland, or something like that in store for all Japanese Americans. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z No, she told herself, she’d merely followed her instincts, and her instincts did not make the kinds of distinctions having Japanese blood demanded. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She had heard that Japanese houses were usually built north-south, but the houses in this little village faced every which way. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The little group of defenders shoved them back, sinking two destroyers and damaging nine other ships, shooting down two bombers, and forcing the Japanese to abort, their first loss of the war. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you noticed that Mom and Dad’s only friends are Japanese?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The throng of reporters, mostly Japanese, wanted a neatly scripted version of the calamity, replete with villains and heroes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Our commanders no longer thought that any small island held by the Japanese would be easy to conquer. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “If people did not know this, how could Suyuan know the Japanese were coming?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z However, picking up Japanese things was not wise. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Silence, called ma, is very important in Japanese music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Some Negro kids walked me to school and home, protecting me from the Japanese kids, who hit me and chased me and stuck gum in my ears. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For three days, the Japanese bombed and strafed the atoll. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He spoke fragments of French, Spanish and Japanese. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “First time I climb mountain in twenty year. Mountain special place to Japanese. Our whole country mountain everywhere.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “No apologies needed,” he replies in Japanese, then glances at me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “And if there is blood on some of that stuff, don’t touch it. You might catch something, like Japanese polio.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Though I had yet to see a live enemy soldier, the Japanese were still there and a constant danger. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The car pool horn would honk, and she would rush out to join four other Japanese women who had fixed their hair that morning, applied the vanishing cream, and sported freshly ironed hankies. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Japanese scholars traditionally took the missing characters to mean that the king was the Japanese emperor Mizuha-wake of the Beautiful Teeth named in the 8th-century Japanese chronicles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In January 1944, after they traced some of her money back to Japanese sources, they arrested her as a spy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Japanese music relies on subtle changes and exploration of timbre rather than continuous sound. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The major pulled his pipe from his mouth and proclaimed the Japanese commander laughable in this regard. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Somebody tapped me on my shoulder, and when I turned around, the girl right in back of me said, “Are you Chinese or Japanese?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Urutoraman is Japan’s greatest superhero. His powers belong in Japanese hands.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Between his feet are two glyphs, one resembling a stovepipe hat with a U painted across the front, the other looking vaguely like a smiling pet monster from a Japanese cartoon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z President Roosevelt had decided to take Americans as prisoners of war as well as Germans, Italians, and Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Was it possible he couldn’t read Japanese very well anymore? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was not only a point of honor, he’d said, it was also a matter of having to go because his face was Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In the rush-hour crowd a Japanese tourist asks me a question, and I inch past his accent to concentrate on what he is saying. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But at twilight or during the night, other things are visible: oil-well fires in Libya and the Persian Gulf; deepwater illumination by the Japanese squid fishing fleet; the bright lights of large cities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But from what I now knew about the Japanese, I was very worried. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Hercules stared at her as if she were speaking in Japanese. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the question that many people had asked themselves, Americans and Japanese and Germans and everybody else in the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z From its original point of entrance the Japanese beetle has spread rather widely throughout many of the states east of the Mississippi, where conditions of temperature and rainfall are suitable for it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Occasionally the locals would discuss the Japanese and some fighting on the outer islands of Alaska, but even that seemed far away—not nearly as scary as Hazel’s problem. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Especially in the experience of Japanese archaeologists, China is regarded as the source of cultural breakthroughs in East Asia, such as agriculture, writing, metallurgy, and everything else of significance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many years later, after the war, I read a translation of the Imperial Japanese Army Instruction manual. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the Japanese would scoop up or pluck the aromatic leaves and boil them and inhale the steam, claiming that it was good for colds; others felt that camphor steam could be harmful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Deceiving me,” said Fujiko in Japanese, “is only half of it, daughter. You have deceived yourself, too.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In a space not much larger than our Navajo homelands, there were 80 million Japanese people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Marines invaded where there was still a population of Japanese civilians, including many women and children. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Horchow’s daughter, Sally, told me a story of how she once took her father to a new Japanese restaurant where a friend of hers was a chef. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They specified, “This demonstration might be over enemy territory, or in our own country, with subsequent notice to Japan that the materials would be used against the Japanese mainland unless surrender was forthcoming.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Marines fired in delirium, cutting down the first advancing wave of Japanese infantry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Company books preserved in the Island County historical archives record that in 1907 eighteen Japanese were injured or maimed at the Port Jefferson mill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z By 1939 the Japanese had taken much of the land along the Kwoo River, and my mother was living in the mountains with other refugees. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You forgot to mention they were Japanese,” she blurted out, not waiting to be called on. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z What makes it especially difficult to discuss Japanese archaeology dispassionately is that Japanese interpretations of their past affect their present behavior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Japans technological capabilities appeared to be far inferior to those of Germany, and the Japanese regime’s threat to the world of a much more limited order. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He would also show it a few years later in the South Pacific when, against orders, he stayed behind with wounded British soldiers as Japanese troops surrounded them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe take a book over to the Japanese Garden? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not read Hindi and Japanese? Oh, come on now.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Even at ten, before I really knew what waited outside, the Japanese in me could not compete with that. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they bombed,” said the man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Old wooden signs with kanji, the most complicated of the three ways of writing Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To Strasser, someone who was Japanese simply could not play with any soul or fidelity music that was composed by a European. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One theory is that Jomon hunter-gatherers themselves gradually evolved into the modern Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s painted himself in the style of a bonze, looking a little bit Japanese. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My father had made the money for the fare at last, but he sent for her instead of returning, one more postponement of home, this time because of the Japanese. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese soldier, a colonel had explained, would die fighting before he would surrender. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After the war ended, the Japanese and Italian prisoners of war interned at the Greenbrier went home, but Howard Vaughan stayed on, continuing his summer work at the grand hotel alongside Joshua Coleman. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Terrified that the Germans or the Japanese might be targeting the United States mainland, a front-page headline in the Los Angeles Times blared on July 27, “City Hunting for Source of Gas Attack.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Another reason for his indifference to the Japanese removal was more subtle but was more profoundly felt. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Allied occupation consisted of Western soldiers, mostly Americans, who were stationed in Japan to restore order and tell the Japanese people how to make a new government. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To fill the gap between 660 B.C. and the earliest historically documented Japanese monarchs, the chronicles invented 13 other, equally fictitious emperors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mom is Japanese, and her dad is Lebanese. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z And yet here was a Reader’s Digest story providing a tip-off for any Japanese official who happened to see it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Not all of them hate—you’re correct. But on this other matter”—she still spoke in Japanese—“you don’t think they are very much different? In some big way, Hatsue? Different from us?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Those thousands of tons of bombs didn’t do much more than disturb the sleep of the Japanese soldiers in reinforced caves and tunnels a hundred feet below the black sand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of those Japanese survivors looked so Indian that they might have been Navajos. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese flag was balled up and pushed to one side and the rifle was gone. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At school they were strangers for reasons unclear to him, though at the same time he understood it had to be that way because she was Japanese and he wasn’t. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z However, the Icelandic court questioned the Japanese marriage certificate that Miyoko presented because it was only a photocopy, and she had difficulty proving that she was in fact Bobby’s legal wife. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I think it's kind of cool. I wish I could speak Japanese.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The black Japanese script cut into the white face of the obelisk read simply, “A Memorial to the Dead.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama then moved to help her with the carton, and the old woman said very graciously, in Japanese, “Would you like to use it?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the timer there was a menu listing Ultraman’s various energy attacks in Japanese. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I insist you must! Do you know Japanese bath? You must clean off first and then get in tub to soak. There is tenugui to dry yourself.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They might soon have to defend themselves from the Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been established in 1973 after four members of a single Japanese trekking group succumbed to the altitude and died in the vicinity. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There is a phrase the Japanese use in such situations, when something difficult must be endured. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa managed to find a couple of children’s books, including one of haiku by a famous Japanese poet from a long time ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Louie admired his friend for his efforts, but found it odd that he would travel to Torrance every day, given how few Japanese lived there. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The same goes for Japanese flower arranging ikebana, where a single flower in a simple vase succinctly expresses the nature of Japanese aesthetics and worldview. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There were always fears that the Japanese would mount more air raids, so all news of shipping in the Slot had to be sent in code. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Officials from the Japanese Sumo Association typically dismiss any such charges as fabrications by disgruntled former wrestlers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was tall for a Japanese man, nearly six feet, lean and hard and healthy- skinned from the sea. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z About five years ago, Mom discovered the Japanese tradition of making mochi on New Year’s. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Later, he became enamored of Japanese interlocking puzzles and dimensional wooden puzzles shaped in the form of an automobile or an animal. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If it weren't for the extra fuel the Japanese gave us, we'd be trying to steady ourselves with the jib—which seems impossible. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He’s this short, stocky Japanese guy with shiny black hair and a big smile. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Why is your hair so long?” a round-faced girl asked in Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Because they came from wealthy families and spoke and understood both English and Japanese, they had high opinions of themselves. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z As our Marines moved farther inland, the Japanese kept sending wave after wave of banzai attacks against them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Who are the Japanese, when and whence did they come to Japan, and how did they evolve their unique speech? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their only hope of survival was to swim miles away to a small island that they hoped was not covered with Japanese soldiers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Sister Mary Bernadette was a feisty, robust little Canadian Japanese who spoke both languages fluently. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Adolf Hitler raved to the Japanese ambassador in Berlin. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to climb it, even though the Japanese were firing down at us from the heights. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As Biff dried his face and hands a breeze tinkled the glass pendants of the little Japanese pagoda on the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z To make the challenge even greater, the Japanese changed the settings of Purple machines daily, and used them sparingly. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Our first major objective on the island had been to take Mount Suribachi, but the fierce Japanese resistance made it almost impossible. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to press my ear against it and listen for Chinese rickshaw pullers or Japanese Zeros or a monsoon puffing away a village on stilts. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Rocky had reasoned it out with him; it was impossible for the dead man to be Josiah, because Josiah was an old Laguna man, thousands of miles from the Philippine jungles and Japanese armies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Japanese lanterns with candles in them hung on bamboo sticks at the corners, and red crepe paper twisted in scallops from the center to the corners to give the effect of a tent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z With time, a few dozen regional styles developed over the 1,500-mile length of the Japanese archipelago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When he points, I train my camera on the knotty dead trunks of Japanese maples and the cherry and ginkgo trees—gnarled limbs reaching toward blue sky. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Until 1946, Japanese schools taught a myth of Japanese history based on the earliest Japanese chronicles of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The doctor's voice called me back from the Japanese playground. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Some of us dared to hope that the Japanese defenses had been wiped out by our guns and during the months of bombing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For the Japanese, soaking in a bathtub was as important a daily activity as eating and sleeping, because it made you strong and healthy. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If their losses were great enough, perhaps the Japanese command would realize that they had to surrender. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They were Japanese girls in America during a time when America was fighting a war with Japan—did any of them want to deny it? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Hence when Japan sent troops to Korea and annexed it in 1910, Japanese military leaders celebrated the annexation as “the restoration of the legitimate arrangement of antiquity.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If so, modern Japanese are descendants of Korean immigrants who developed a modified culture of their own over the last 2,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What the Japanese newspapers said was far from the truth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Fighting behind Japanese lines, he organized hit-and-run raids on enemy troops. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Tens of millions of Japanese would give their lives to defend their homeland. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I waved to the Japanese, then unscrewed the cap and took a big swig and poured it over my face. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They not only spoke Japanese exclusively, they spoke a dialect peculiar to Kyushu, where their families had come from in Japan, a rough, fisherman’s language, full of oaths and insults. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Hanako knew that the Japanese way was to say no even when you meant yes, so she persisted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “But they were Japanese! Aunt Esther won't look at Japanese photographs, will she? And you said she was going to adopt another boy anyway.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z We Americans tend to be paranoid about Japanese efficiency, and it is indeed formidable in some industries—but not in food-processing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Japanese Americans and other Asian Americans weren’t granted the right to vote until 1952. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After the devastating bath of dieldrin recently administered to the farmlands in eastern Illinois for the control of the Japanese beetle, farmers discovered that corn borers had increased enormously in the treated area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It wasn't an oil derrick but an enormous Japanese fishing trawler with two tall cranes for hauling up their vast nets. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z A Jeep and two Japanese cars say some of the younger generation are also here. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The Japanese didn’t observe the usual rules of warfare that forbade trying to kill medical personnel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the enemy soldiers now wore white bands around their heads, the same kind of headbands worn by Japanese warriors for hundreds of years. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The bomb detonated moments later, killing more than 70,000 Japanese people in the explosion and the resulting firestorms, which obliterated an area nearly five miles wide. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My eyes go to the Japanese text printed over the entrance into the airport’s terminals. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Japanese are generally smaller than Caucasians, and almost all these clothes were oversize. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When the message reached Tokyo the next morning, Japanese leaders debated options. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese military government had stolen it from their own hungry people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are the granddaughter?” the man asked in Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Once Japanese banks, now Korean independent banks after World War II had ended. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And, like the Jews in Germany, Japanese American citizens—men, women, and children—were rounded up and forced to live in internment camps with no regard for their civil rights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Meanwhile members of the island’s Japanese community pledged their loyalty to the United States. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Out in front, the Japanese, still rowing like demons possessed, stretched their lead over the British to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In those days Japanese women on the mainland were rare, one for every seven or eight Japanese men. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Millions of lives, Japanese and American, would be lost in a full-scale invasion. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to think it’s a travesty. That they arrested him because he’s Japanese.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In lane four the Japanese fluttered rapidly out into the lead, whipping the water at nearly fifty strokes per minute with their short oars and short slides. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We had to drive out the Japanese and secure the airfields. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of letting them start separate new lives like the Japanese, who could become samurais and geishas, the Chinese family, faces averted but eyes glowering sideways, hung on to the offenders and fed them leftovers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their decisive naval encounter, with the Emperor on board ship, occurred at Danno-ura in the Japanese Inland Sea on April 24, 1185. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I smiled and sat down, suddenly aware of what being of Japanese ancestry was going to be like. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They kept their identities a secret, but they did reveal that they were both Japanese, which made them instant celebrities in Japan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In one of the dumbest moves of the war, he’d failed to prepare for a Japanese naval attack. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On the weekends, I showed old Japanese monster flicks, along with some vintage anime. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In fact, grandchildren, when we finally took that island and began exploring the deserted Japanese positions, we Marines found something that made us feel especially angry. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I was on a little hill in the jungle with several other Marines looking down on the valley below, which was still in Japanese hands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a heavy accent, so she wasn’t American Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Did I think we should buy an American car or a Japanese car? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She was seventeen, small, buxom, with a classically round face of a kind much admired among Japanese. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them strolled together through the Japanese Gardens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Akira had his own shelf too, filled with “Japanese” rocks and “special” dirt and “nice” grass that he collected during the day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My own family would be living in the same cheap apartment building as the other Japanese who worked at the hatchery. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Hence we should not be surprised that modern Japanese and Korean people resemble each other far more in their appearance and genes than in their languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Is it that Japanese woman you were so curious about?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Naval base, a deep water harbor, and a Marine airfield had all been taken over by the Japanese when they invaded Guam on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at Hatsue again where she stood in the midst of a small group of Japanese islanders who whispered softly to one another and peered at their watches and waited. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z No member of my family and none of the family friends ever mentioned the absent Japanese. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Most popular in Japan is the view that the Japanese gradually evolved from ancient Ice Age people who occupied Japan long before 20,000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If identity was geography instead of blood—if living in a place was what really mattered—then Ishmael was part of her, inside of her, as much as anything Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It had become the largest industry in the world, the most productive, the most sophisticated, outproducing the Germans by more than three times and the Japanese by nearly five. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There were thousands of Japanese, soldiers and civilians both, in those attacks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z While we were arguing about what was Chinese and what was Japanese, I noticed this family of five tall blond people standing near us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I bought a few souvenirs to send home, a little parasol for Mom and some Japanese comics for my brother Ken. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “My Japanese isn’t good enough for school here!” she said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Go get me those Japanese binoculars,” she ordered, and gave me a little shove toward the back door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He terrified all of us, lurching around the tiny room, cursing in Japanese and swinging his bottles wildly. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese had a half day of school on Saturdays. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “It’s because you’re from Japanese folks,” he said softly; it was more a question than a statement. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z That’s when Japanese chemists discovered an enzyme that could transform glucose into the much sweeter sugar molecule called fructose. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In light of this, the Review points out that those of Japanese descent on this island are not responsible for the tragedy at Pearl Harbor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Reason said No. The tarpaulin was sturdy canvas, not a Japanese paper wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As Baachan headed out of the office, Hanako felt a pang of worry over how bad her Japanese reading and writing were. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Cullen had decided to quit his job to join the Coast Guard after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “I hope you’ll make good use of it against the Japanese.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese women and children ran from the Marines in terror. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam was covered with bruiselike marks on his backside, the way Japanese babies sometimes are. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The boy said in casual Japanese that the cakes weren’t very good, but arigatō anyway. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t even know what you’re talking about. You just don’t make any sense at all. It’s all Japanese to me.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a Japanese outpost at Cape Torokina nearby, but our scouts thought it had only about a hundred men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “After three days of uncertainty, the clouds that hung over the Japanese islands for the past week were beginning to break up. Conditions were ‘go’ and tomorrow was the day.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese had waited until we Americans had swarmed up the first slope and were like sitting ducks on the wide plain before the next terrace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All our intelligence said that the Japanese military was still not ready to quit, even though the ordinary people were desperate for peace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘A souvenir photo. I looked at all of them, the ones before and the ones after, but I couldn’t find any with Salim in. This is the one with the Japanese and the African ladies.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Quang-ha is in love with Dell's large TV and he finds a program where Japanese soccer players use their heads to smash clay pots. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Foreign radio! How could we listen to foreign radio? We haven’t had a short-wave radio for thirty years, since the Japanese invaded. Fan’s lying!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So the best place to attack was on the western shore, a place called Empress Augusta Bay, forty miles from the nearest large Japanese base on Bougainville’s other side. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also hard for the Japanese to speak up because they believed that their emperor was a god, the son of the Sun God. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Nikkei were people of Japanese descent, whether they were citizens of America, Japan, or any other country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He’d remembered, too, that the Japanese man had worked for him years before, part of a crew that put in his raspberries in 1939. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They’d gotten so many phony messages sent by Japanese soldiers who spoke perfect English that they thought it was just an enemy trick. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The little Japanese boy was smiling in the L.A. depot; darkness came like night fog and someone was bending over a small body. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One detachment was composed entirely of Japanese Americans. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Ainu were conquered, rounded up into reserves, forced to work for trading posts, driven off land desired by Japanese farmers, and killed when they revolted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Each would check the weather over a specific Japanese city—potential targets approved by President Truman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A few years later they tried again, but by this time the Japanese had built a wall to help repel invaders. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My mother, in her hurt, invaded, Korean way, would have counseled me to distrust him, this clever Japanese. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was married to a Japanese man, and they had adopted a little Japanese girl I sometimes played with. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Four days later, as the German and Japanese anthems played, the ship rose into the grasp of a typhoon that whisked it over the Pacific at breathtaking speed, toward America. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z For the first time, I was on soil where American Marines had died fighting the Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Awesome,” he says after he shoots a marble out of the Japanese robot’s belly to blast his own impact crater on the surface of my cake-pan moon. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It was important to make eye contact and not cover your mouth when you laughed, like some of the more Japanese girls did. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She was halfway through the assignment when Japanese fighter pilots bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We began homeschooling when Papa started working for a Japanese company. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The British were everywhere: they were fighting the Japanese in Burma, and they were fighting the Germans in North Africa. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z However, the main concentration of Japanese defenders had been where we made our landing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Allies had forced the German troops from North Africa earlier that year, but in China there was an ongoing battle to drive out the invading Japanese. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On the table there was a little Japanese pagoda with glass pendants that tinkled with strange musical tones in a draught. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The Scalp Ceremony lay to rest the Japanese souls in the green humid jungles, and it satisfied the female giant who fed on the dreams of warriors. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Admiral Conolly had learned from the mistakes at Bougainville and Tarawa where the naval shelling had been too brief or too inaccurate to break down Japanese defenses. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They were let off at some barracks that Mama said had been a center for Japanese soldiers who were being shipped out during the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z No formal disciplinary action has ever been taken against a Japanese sumo wrestler for match rigging. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Johnny and I unwrapped the fuzzy red material and discovered that the paper was printed in Japanese! Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The conversation that follows involves more creative coercion than outright job offer, and there are several deviations into the subjects of the ballet, modern fashion, and Japanese mythology. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Sasaki had indeed moved to Washington, D.C., in the employ of the Japanese navy. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z After Pearl Harbor was bombed, the U.S. government feared that anyone who was of Japanese descent living in America could not be trusted. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The Japanese tourists come towards us, twittering, and we turn our heads away too late: our faces have been seen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese were so impressed by the new weapon that they commenced indigenous gun production, greatly improved gun technology, and by A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And her people, insisted Fujiko, were Japanese—the events of the past months had proved it so; why else had their father been arrested? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her parents had sent Hatsue to Mrs. Shigemura with the intent that the girl would not forget that she was first and foremost Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Japanese pilots were no longer just dropping bombs and strafing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She was Japanese, but there was a white man at a desk behind her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He loves the docks and wharves, which remind him of popular Japanese art prints that he’s begun collecting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It happened when the Japanese took over Kweilin,” says my father. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a collection of them, the “Rubrum,” the “Honeymoon,” and a host of Japanese varieties. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Including us, that made a grand total of thirty-one Japanese people. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They contained small boxes of Japanese candy, packets of biscuits, cans of stew, as well as lots of pamphlets written in Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She claimed that white men carried in their hearts a secret lust for pure young Japanese girls. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They were all Issei, and he was one of the few fluent in Japanese and English. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the regular school sessions and the recreation program, classes of every kind were being offered all over camp: singing, acting, trumpet playing, tap-dancing, plus traditional Japanese arts like needlework, judo, and kendo. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A Chinese grandmother leads an army of thirty thousand guerrilla warriors against Japanese invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “They were of Japanese ancestry, but they had built lives in America. They were part of American communities.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Chinese without sons stole the boy babies of Japanese settlers who left them bundled up at the ends of the potato rows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought the stack of cards to my lap, sifting through the images before deciding on a Japanese woodblock print with white foam like snow atop the blue ocean waves. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Aerial reconaissance had revealed where the main concentrations of Japanese defenders seemed to be—in the southern part of the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city, said Harry Truman. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suppose we organize some kind of a cooperative. For Japanese people coming back from the camps. We will design a housing project, and all the men looking for work will build houses.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese were snaking through the low palmettos toward the last few marines on Wake Island. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I knew I didn’t have all night to play because of Mom, so I gave it another try as the Japanese made their final “Banzai!” assault. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They were devastating and primarily leveled both cities, but little was told to the public then except that a new kind of bomb had been used against the Japanese. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “The use of a second bomb the same week,” he said, “was calculated to indicate that we had an endless supply of this super weapon for use against one Japanese city after another.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone taken captive by the Japanese was scorned as a coward. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Genmaicha is a Japanese green tea with toasted rice in it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Some might then guess that he had broken Japanese ones, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When the boys speak, it is in Japanese. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By 1938 it was rather widely prevalent in the older areas of Japanese beetle infestation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For instance, today almost all Japanese and Scandinavians are literate but most Iraqis are not: why did writing nevertheless arise nearly four thousand years earlier in Iraq? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z All that was left were the curtains on the windows and a tacked-up Japanese print that Bunny had given him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The reason for this was that the South African government wanted to establish good relations with the Japanese in order to import their fancy cars and electronics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z To that, Mrs. Woods gave Hirohito a slap against the head and said something to him in Japanese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese, he continued, are “the sole superior race of the world.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z But the Japanese broke every code our American forces used. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We were poor, but in the way Japanese are poor, meaning we never borrowed money from anyone, period. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The “visit of important gentleman’s wife” was probably an “invitation to the Japanese Navy to bomb the harbor.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When those radiocarbon dates were announced in 1960, not even Japanese scientists could at first believe them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know if there’s a Japanese translation of Little Women? I love that book,” she said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Soon their insights allowed them to build their own working copy of a Japanese Type B machine—even though they had never seen one, or even any designs for one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z How could he feel otherwise when all he heard, all he read about, was how smart the Japanese were and how dumb Americans were? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese man had asked about the land then, and asserted his wish to buy the seven acres his family had once held. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But this woman, I realized much later, was half-black, with light mulatto skin, passing as a Japanese in order to remain with her husband. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He pressed his palms together at his chest and gave them a slow, deep, Japanese bow from the waist. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z You know, grandchildren, for a long time even after the war, it was hard for me to have any good thoughts about the Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There were rumors that all the Japanese on the coast were going to be forced to leave. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Those kofun that have been excavated contain lavish burial goods, but excavation of all of the largest ones is still forbidden because they are believed to contain the ancestors of the Japanese imperial line. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Asian archaeologists are racing to beat the Japanese record. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Just then, two Japanese soldiers who’d been hidden in a cave attacked them with hand grenades and a sword. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They began to endorse Japanese products and had a cartoon and a live-action TV series based on their exploits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He starts to tell me a story about Mom telling him to stop making Japanese food because it “made the house smell awful,” but he seems to change his mind before he says too much. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Bobby deliberately varied the kinds of food he ate: Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Hungarian, even Kosher, alternating restaurants every night. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The surprised Japanese there had retreated back from the beaches and the first landings had gone almost unopposed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They were lower class, uneducated Japanese who been taken from their homes in Japan and forced by their army to work building the air field. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Speaking above the deadly whirr of shrapnel, the snap of Japanese rifles, and the ping of bullets bouncing off our radio equipment. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow I was going to have to prove to Mom that I didn’t know there was a bullet in that Japanese sniper rifle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The conflicts between these four familiar types of evidence are what make Japanese origins so controversial. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She and her late husband had once been friends with many Japanese officials, but that was before Japan and the United States had gone to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We’re in our spot next to the wide gangway, standing among the traders and workmen and a pack of youthful Japanese, everyone waiting for the launch and the black billows of diesel. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, 60,000 Japanese Americans were returning to their former communities on the west coast and being put into trailer camps, Quonset huts, back rooms of private homes, church social halls, anywhere they could fit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the Japanese wood block of the ocean waves and shifted the loose stack with my fingertips. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z An accomplished businesswoman employed by Federal Express in Tokyo, Yasuko didn’t fit the meek, deferential stereotype of a middle-aged Japanese woman. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z These local monopolies are reinforced by the Japanese government, which obstructs the import of foreign processed food by imposing a 10-day quarantine, among other restrictions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On that first day of class, Kappe also told them that the second goal of the mission was to "stir up trouble" to turn Americans against German Americans, Japanese Americans, and Italian Americans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A few years later the Japanese company incorporated elements of Lawrence’s design into one of the most successful color TV technologies in history, a product it named Trinitron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the week before the moon arrived, the Japanese came. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The ancient Japanese developed some of the oldest pottery in the world and settled as hunter-gatherers in villages subsisting on Japan’s rich seafood resources, long before the arrival of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “A bombing raid. The Japanese air force has bombed everything. It is bad for us, terribly bad. There is nothing else on the radio. Everything is Pearl Harbor.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was like I was shooting Dad’s Japanese rifle at the screen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Perhaps in that moment he remembered how his father had buried everything Japanese beneath the soil of his farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I pulled out the long Japanese sword, and when I scrambled back around the corner of the pen nothing had changed except I was even more afraid. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She pushed back my hair and said sadly, “Sweetheart, nobody in Georgia is going to hire a Japanese man to be a land surveyor.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z But it was a pretty sad story, about one family’s struggle against the oppressive Japanese regime. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A Japanese soldier was supposed to die in banzai charges or kill himself rather than give up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z People who violate Japanese law, even unknowingly, may be arrested, imprisoned, and deported. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If the Japanese had invented football, this is how they would have played it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The prejudice that islanders are supposed to learn from superior continentals wasn’t the sole reason why record-breaking Japanese pottery caused such a shock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This visible evidence of political centralization that the kofun provide reinforces the accounts of Kofun era Japanese emperors written down much later in Japanese and Korean chronicles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, the Japanese were not the sole ancient people with pottery: it was invented independently at many different times and places around the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s one of those Japanese prank shows. They put this guy in a coffin with a bunch of dead squid and leave him there.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Spoken Japanese is full of disrespectful insult words that can be much more cutting than mere vulgarity. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result these Japanese beetle programs have caused shocking destruction of animal life and have exposed human beings to undeniable hazard. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Before the Japanese attacked, it had been an American island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Palsson began visiting Bobby at the jail and met with some of the Japanese officials to see what he could do. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I gathered as much,” Heidi says, but she looks like she’s in one of those Japanese terror movies, her mouth not syncing up with the words. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She once told me she wished she had given me and my brothers more “traditional” names because she was “kind of over the Japanese thing.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z "Don't you fools dare follow me! For I not only have the Japanese prime minister's cat. I have his new American puppy, too!" Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Chinese doing computer drawings for Japanese homes, nearly seventy years after a rapacious Japanese army occupied China, razing many homes in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In a few days I might be shipped off to the Pacific to fight the Japanese, as other Marines were already doing on the island of Guadalcanal. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z "It says here that you are charged with delivering oil to Japanese submarines off the coast of California." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After some practice with this, it will be easy to plan an integrated multicultural lesson using something like kamishibai, or Japanese story cards. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Named Freedom, this small space station will be an international effort, with help from the Europeans, Japanese, Canadians, and Russians. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "We have to rescue the Japanese prime minister's cat!" shouts Nala. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Yes. I suppose. Ten percent of the island’s Caucasian male population. It—” “And isn’t the percentage even higher, doctor, for males of Japanese descent? A higher percentage of B positives among the island’s Japanese-Americans?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Uhh ... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts’, as you say in English.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As a result the Japanese had been very cruel to them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z No sooner had we shut off the radio, untied it from the tree, and moved, than a Japanese mortar round landed behind us—right where we had been sending and receiving. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence Japanese food-producing companies are not exposed to either domestic or foreign competition, and they don’t learn the best international methods for producing food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the Japanese still hold the world record, with pottery thousands of years older than the oldest from the Fertile Crescent or Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was a ritual all the local Japanese mothers performed the day before they sent their daughters off to school for the first time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Or the girl who sided with Hirohito Woods and made me feel ignorant for not knowing he was half colored and half Japanese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time I had lived among other Japanese, or gone to school with them, and I was terrified all the time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, yeah, that was a Japanese compact, and this was the sun chariot, but how different could it be? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Hey! How come your daughter is seventeen years old and if you put a sack over her face you couldn’t tell she was Japanese from anybody else on the street?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama and Woody went to work packing celery for a Japanese produce dealer. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I was court-martialed again in Kyoto, Japan, for stealing a Japanese taxicab. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Japanese,” I said as I slid my math book into my locker. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I was ashamed of him for that and, in a deeper way, for being what had led to our imprisonment, that is, for being so unalterably Japanese. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew a little conversational Japanese, but chopsticks eluded him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z No wonder some twenty-eight hundred Japanese companies have set up operations here or teamed up with Chinese partners. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The Japanese had equipment that could pinpoint where an American radio transmission was coming from. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On the wall was a framed embroidery of a Japanese geisha that Kaylene had made. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Bulldozers were clearing away the wreckage of Japanese planes on Yontan airfield. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa stepped forward, a look almost of awe on his face, and then he and Jiichan hugged tightly, which Hanako knew was unusual among Japanese people. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They were also called suicide attacks because that was what it turned out to be for those Japanese soldiers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But instead of weakening their defenses, it made the Japanese stronger. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Allied plan of bombing the great cities of the Japanese mainland had continued all through our invasion of Okinawa. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever a Japanese pilot volunteered to become a kamikaze pilot he was given a funeral service before he got into his plane. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Parasites and predators of the gypsy moth achieved good control, as did the Tiphia wasp against the Japanese beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They had all heard stories of Japanese homes being attacked, of beatings in the streets of California towns. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind Fuchida, 180 Japanese planes peeled away and dove for Oahu. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The efficiency of the Japanese food-processing industry is a miserable 32 percent that of ours. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “A miracle! Behold the sun! I was beginning to think she had gone into a cave and vowed never to return, like the Japanese myth.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The Japanese soldiers had pulled back and dug in to wait for us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Following the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent, almost all of whom were loyal American citizens, were placed in “war relocation camps.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z There was a fat woman with a fat kid, and a Japanese guy with two cameras, and a girl with crutches whose cast was signed by lots of people. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And so, if he thinks one of his friends would like a version in a more Japanese style, for example, that’s what he makes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In August, after the retreat of the monsoon from the high Himalaya, Lopsang had returned to Everest to guide a Japanese client up the South Col and Southeast Ridge route. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It was a Japanese loneliness, something she’d learned about from studying poems in school—just a sense that everything at that exact moment was kind of perfect, and yet also really sad. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Gomo was always so proud and dignified and wore Japanese pearls her son had bought for her when he’d become police captain. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She took the child to the Japanese Gardens, where she bought her caramel on a stick and a bag of popcorn. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I think if we were Japanese, I’d be real mad about my name. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In summer she’d sorted berries, cut runners, pulled weeds, and kept one eye on the Indians and Japanese who yearly picked on the Heine farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Wed established the American presence on the island and pushed the Japanese back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from the crooked matches, they said, sumo was rife with drug use and sexcapades, bribes and tax evasion, and close ties to the yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Before the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito finally told the Japanese people that he was not of divine descent, Japanese archaeologists and historians had to make their interpretations conform to this account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ole Jurgensen told everything—the way the politeness had gone out of the Japanese man, the unreadable Japanese expression on his face when he heard that the land he coveted had been sold. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Purple was used by Japanese diplomats, which meant it carried the very highest-grade secrets.To protect those secrets, Japan's coding chiefs had outdone themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Japanese warfare had previously involved single combats between samurai swordsmen, who stood in the open, made ritual speeches, and then took pride in fighting gracefully. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Taking first the Ainu language, that language as we know it is the one that was spoken in recent times by the Ainu on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the whole kitchen crew was too excited and upset to notice: Japanese planes had just bombed a place called Pearl Harbor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So the Japanese began to plant booby traps. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “You come from a family of samurai,” Kabuo’s father said to him in Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The rail was lined with ragged Japanese sailors waving down at me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z For Japanese twelfth graders, the answer was 92 percent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I hadn't heard that word since childhood and immediately recalled a mismatched pair of Japanese schoolboys standing alone in a deserted school yard. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Every Saturday all the Japanese Americans for many miles around met at a bowling alley in the middle of the state. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I always ask, because people always ask me if I can speak Japanese. I try to beat them to it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Just like the first, it was destroyed by that giant wind that the Japanese began to call Kamikaze. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until December 23 that the Japanese finally seized Wake and captured the men on it. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In the three months between his surgery and his death, Gey went to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for a week of treatments with an experimental Japanese drug that made him violently ill. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Everyone begins taking turns going up, two at a time, each behind alternate sides of the screen, singing a song in Japanese and clapping while everyone in the audience sings along with them. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Papá showed them his green card, which Ito, the Japanese sharecropper for whom we picked strawberries, had helped him get years before. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z These questions are central to the self-image of the Japanese, and to how they are viewed by other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the face of it, these facts would appear to suggest that the Ainu are descended from Japan’s original inhabitants, and that the Japanese are descended from more recent arrivals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They sat in the great room with Dad and made small talk about the Japanese fish in our lake, stuff like, Are the koi disappearing from the lake? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were little, Dad bought us some Japanese anime DVDs for Christmas. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As we moved down the trail, we saw signs that the Japanese had just retreated. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was her adventurer who would bring back exotic species—he had dated a Japanese girl, a Venezuelan girl—but would, with time, settle down properly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z All this respect among the Japanese could get quite aggravating! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The firm has recently expanded into computer-aided designs for a Japanese housing company. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In fact, as soon as we finished sending and were heading down the trail, I carefully took out the Japanese food pack I’d picked up and tossed it into the jungle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His allegiance to his country and his pride in being Japanese prevented him from giving in. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and their invasion of Alaska, Americans wanted a victory. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Even if a Japanese soldier was captured and his rifle taken from him, he would still try to attack his captors with a hidden knife. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A second theory, unappealing to those Japanese who prefer the first theory, argues instead that the Yayoi transition represents a massive influx of immigrants from Korea, carrying Korean farming practices, culture, and genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I held up the sheet of paper, with the first page of A Brief History of Time in Japanese, which I got the translation of from Amazon.co.jp. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The citizens in the gallery were reminded of photographs they had seen of Japanese soldiers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “In the textbook, it explains that the government was worried that there might have been spies within the Japanese communities,” Jessica said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Japanese snipers who had been tied in, high up among the palm fronds, were falling out of the tops of those trees like coconuts. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Down by my feet I had laid out all the Japanese army souvenirs Dad had shipped home from the war. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As I stared at him, there was suddenly a loud Bang! from right next to me and one of the buttons on the Japanese soldier’s uniform shattered. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walked across the dirt landing strip to await a second flight into Kathmandu, Stuart, Caroline, and I were approached by three ashen-faced Japanese men. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The sennimbaris didn’t work for the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, either. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the Japanese, of course, rice is never eaten with sweet foods, only with salty or savory foods. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They needed help, but were more eager to help us by telling where the remaining Japanese were hiding. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In the traditional Japanese class system, samurai ranked just below nobility; then came farmers and those who worked the land. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese temple on the Wooded Island charmed Frank Lloyd Wright, and may have influenced the evolution of his “Prairie” residential designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a terrible sin to buy anything with a German or Japanese label, no matter if it cost only a nickel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The earth goddess’s dreams were so powerful, they cast shadows across the cave walls—ghastly shifting images of Nazi armies raging across Europe, Japanese planes destroying American cities. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z However, the Japanese propaganda machine made him into a martyr. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the Japanese emperor was ready to offer unconditional surrender, not all of the military officers agreed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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