Kabuki-cho Cabaret
Kabuki-cho Cabaret

Author: Ian McKinley

Publisher: Fiction4All and 4Play Press

Published: 2024-08-29

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13:

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Detective Jim Holmes moved from the London Met to Tokyo in order to widen his experience, working with the fabled Chief Inspector Stella Koide. This turns out to be much more than he bargained for, when the murder of a Kabuki-cho prostitute leads to identification of a series of sadistic murders far beyond his worst nightmares. Attacks on the detectives expose links to the yakuza and also members of an exotic nightclub that caters for the more exotic sexual tastes of the ultra-rich. The team's uncanny ability to solve cryptic clues reveals deeper layers of an international conspiracy, with links to illegal human genetic engineering and corporate espionage run from the other side of the world. To expose the secret manipulator behind this labyrinthine plot will require direct confrontation on his home ground. As the risks to the detectives increase, Koide�s high-tech tools and Holmes' understanding of the character of their foe must be combined, not only to crack the case, but also to keep them alive long enough to do so.

Getting Around Tokyo Pocket Atlas and Transportation Guide
Getting Around Tokyo Pocket Atlas and Transportation Guide

Author: Boye Lafayette De Mente

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2012-07-10

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1462908632

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This pocket atlas and Japan travel guide is an indispensable tool for getting around Tokyo--whether as a first-time visitor, or a local resident. The travel book is conveniently divided into chapters that enable the user to know what to do on arriving at Narita or Haneda Airport, and then how to get into and around the city using all available means of public transport. Area maps for all the key districts of Tokyo show the locations of hotels, shopping centers, office buildings, temples, shrines, embassies and restaurants as well as their proximity to the nearest subway and JR stations. Information on bus routes and private railways is also given, with detailed diagrams for each route, thus enabling the user to have several options for getting around. Places of interest outside Tokyo are also covered: Hakone, Yokohama, Kamakura, Yokosuka, Mt Fuji and Tokyo Disneyland. Numerous area maps (including maps for Yokota, Atsugi and Zama) and diagrams for bus routes and private railways facilitate journeys to all of these destinations. This Tokyo travel guide contains: Arriving in Tokyo Maps of Tokyo Navigating the Tokyo's Railway & Subway & Maze Buses Routes Getting Around Yokohama, Kawasaki, Hakone & Kamakura Useful Vocabulary and Expressions

Yashakiden Vol. 3
Yashakiden Vol. 3

Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi

Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 1613132360

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In Demon City Shinjuku, the evil influence of Chinese vampire Princess and her followers has begun to penetrate and poison every corner of the haunted city. Now accompanied by General Kazikli Bey—a 500-year-old Eastern European vampire of legendary evil—the deadly Princess seeks to destroy manhunter Setsura Aki. Setsura enters the lair of the Demon Princess—the same lair that Yakou disappeared into and never returned from. What horrors await Shinjuku’s beautiful demon hunter in the uncharted depths of Princess’s mansion? And what is the significance of Doctor Mephisto’s mysterious activities in the secret underground “Resurrection Room” of Mephisto Hospital? The crisis in Shinjuku forces the outside world to take action. Now, supernatural specialists from Japan’s Self-Defense Forces “Foreign Legion” division begin covert operations—with their own agenda. The conflicting forces in Demon City are set to explode! From the acclaimed Japanese horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi (Vampire Hunter D, The Wicked City series) comes his next big novel series for the English audience; Yashakiden: The Demon Princess. With over two million copies sold in Japan and set in the popular Wicked City universe, this four-volume series is not to be missed by followers of Kikuchi’s works as well as fans of horror and the macabre.

Tango in Japan
Tango in Japan

Author: Yuiko Asaba

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2025-02-28

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13:

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Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of tango in Japan dating back to its first introduction in the 1910s to the present day. While initially brought to Yokohama by North American tango dancers in 1914, tango’s immediate popularity in Japan quickly compelled many Japanese performers and writers to travel to Argentina in search of tango’s “origin” beginning in the 1920s. Many Japanese musicians, dancers, aficionados, and the wider public have, since then, approached tango as a new vehicle of expression, entertainment, and academic pursuit. The sounds of tango provided comfort and a sense of hope to many during the most turbulent years of the twentieth century, carving out distinctive characteristics of contemporary Japanese tango culture. Bypassing the West-East axis of understanding cultural transmission, Tango in Japan uncovers the processes of attraction, rejection, and self-transformation, illuminating the tension of cosmopolitan endeavors away from the Euro-American West. Based on Asaba’s field and archival work undertaken in both Japanese and Spanish languages in Japan and Argentina across two decades, and drawing on her own background as a tango violinist who performed as a member of tango orchestras in both countries, the discussions move between historical and ethnographic narratives, offering a comprehensive account of tango culture as it emerged in the history of a Japan-Argentina connection. Serving as the first in-depth work on the Japan-Argentina musical relationship, Tango in Japan tells a story that reflects the modern transformations of Japan and Argentina, and the global historical backdrops surrounding both countries.

Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo

Author: Mark K. Watson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-14

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1317807561

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This book is about the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, living in and around Tokyo; it is, therefore, about what has been pushed to the margins of history. Customarily, anthropologists and public officials have represented Ainu issues and political affairs as limited to rural pockets of Hokkaido. Today, however, a significant proportion of the Ainu people live in and around major cities on the main island of Honshu, particularly Tokyo. Based on extensive original ethnographic research, this book explores this largely unknown diasporic aspect of Ainu life and society. Drawing from debates on place-based rights and urban indigeneity in the twenty-first century, the book engages with the experiences and collective struggles of Tokyo Ainu in seeking to promote a better understanding of their cultural and political identity and sense of community in the city. Looking in-depth for the first time at the urban context of ritual performance, cultural transmission and the construction of places or ‘hubs’ of Ainu social activity, this book argues that recent government initiatives aimed at fostering a national Ainu policy will ultimately founder unless its architects are able to fully recognize the historical and social complexities of the urban Ainu experience.

Tokyo Fashion City
Tokyo Fashion City

Author: Philomena Keet

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1462918476

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The fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs in this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion. Tokyo is considered one of the world's style capitals for its vibrant youth fashion culture. Part guide book, part fashion photography album, Tokyo Fashion City takes a stroll through eight Tokyo neighborhoods, each with its own unique fashion characteristics, to see what streetwise young Tokyoites are wearing, where they're shopping, what they're eating and drinking, and where they're hanging out. Author Philomena Keet and photographer Yuri Manabe accompany the reader to Harajuku where high fashion rubs shoulders with hip-hop style; to Shibuya, birthplace of the "gal" and stomping ground for Tokyo's most sophisticated fashionistas; to hipster hangout Daikanyama; to the goth and geek meccas of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro; to bohemian Koenji and otaku neighborhood Nakano; to Ginza's lunching ladies and dapper gentlemen; to the cosplay paradise of Akihabara; and to the narrow lanes of East Tokyo, where everyday Japanese fashion gets a traditional touch. Each chapter is packed with photographs of young fashionistas captured as they go about their daily lives, with info-rich captions, and insightful text giving the background to the trends and tribes featured. With the inclusion of area maps, and shop and cafe listings, Tokyo Fashion City is an indispensable resource for readers wishing to keep a finger on Tokyo's style pulse.

Song of Sadness
Song of Sadness

Author: Shūsaku Endō

Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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A multi-layered novel about a changing postwar Japan

Yashakiden Vol. 1
Yashakiden Vol. 1

Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi

Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.

Published: 2010-01-13

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1613132344

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Beautiful manhunter Setsura Aki has seen strange and even dangerous creatures in Demon City Shinjuku. The ravaged city living on borrowed time at the edge of a black hole is a place where sin and debauchery can be found around every corner. But nothing prepared him for the arrival of them. Four Chinese vampires – frighteningly evil, ancient and deadly. They have waited centuries for the perfect moment to enter the only city suited to them...Shinjuku. Led by the breathtakingly beautiful – female vampire known only as Princess, they begin claiming victims in the haunted city, using every sensual and sadistic means at their disposal. What could be their ultimate aim? Setura Aki, Shinjuku’s No. 1 private eye, along with enigmatic Doctor Mephisto, must stop Princess and her three followers before Demon City falls under their spell forever. Can these two men unravel the mystery and use their own extraordinary paranormal talents to stop this ultimate evil? Or will they be destroyed by unfathomable powers greater than any they could have imagined? From the acclaimed Japanese horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi (Vampire Hunter D, The Wicked City series) comes his next big novel series for the English audience; Yashakiden: The Demon Princess. With over two million copies sold in Japan and set in the popular Wicked City universe, this four-volume series is not to be missed by followers of Kikuchi’s works as well as fans of horror and the macabre.