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A hilarious, informative, and riveting account of Japanese baseball and the cultural clashes that ensued when Americans began playing there profession...
The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan
"Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decadesโhe knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, th...
60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball
Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous...
The fast times and hard life of an American Gangster in Japan
In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he h...
Robert Whiting looks at how Japenese stars are reshaping the way baseball is played and presents how two very different cultures are merging....
The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime
Matsui... Nomo... Sasaki... Ichiro... the so-called American "National Pastime" has developed a decidedly Japanese flair. Indeed, in this year's All-S...
When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond
From the author of Tokyo Junkie, โthe definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books everโ (San Francisco Chronicle...
Outlaw. Radical. Suspect. My Life in Japan's Underworld
Shot, stabbed, and beaten, Miyazaki Manabu somehow emerged intact from his first fifty years to put his astonishing life story down on paper. Born the...
A Play
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Baseball Samurai Style
Beautiful and conceited Alicia Matcham leads us through an intriguing web of deceit in search of a killer who is, bizarrely, welcomed by her family. T...
An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield
An American major league baseball player describes his experiences playing the great American pastime in Japan, discussing the bad calls, bad vibes, a...
The Impact of Ichiro and the New Wave from Japan
Ichiro...Nomo...Hasegawa...Hideki Matsui...one by one they have come to America and made their mark as incredibly gifted and popular ballplayers. But ...
The nuns of St Ursula's Convent, led by the Prioress, Sister Jeanne, accused Urbain Grandier, Vicar of Loudon, of sorcery. He was tried, tortured and ...
The Devils
This major new study re-examines one of the most controversial issues of early modern history: the impact of the English Reformation upon the English ...
A Doctor's Journey
This is the story of how a young high school student, through a quirk of fate, begins walking down a path that leads him to become a rural family doct...
Fats and oils-oilseed crushings. M20J