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Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End
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Product Description: This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or “withdrawal”—a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world...read more
By Jeffrey Angles (trans)
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9780816654581 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or “withdrawal”—a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world.

Paperback:

9780816654598 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 20, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or “withdrawal”—a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world.

Twelve Views from the Distance
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Product Description: From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy’s childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II. Originally published in 1970, this translation is the first available in English...read more
By Jeffrey Angles (trans)
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9780816672776 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 29, 2012), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy’s childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II.

Paperback:

9780816679362 | Italian edition edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 29, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy’s childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II.

Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature
By Jeffrey Angles
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9780816669691 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 28, 2011, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9780816669707 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 28, 2011, cover price $25.00

From a Woman of a Distant Land
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Product Description: Jeffrey Angles' significant selection of the poetry of Tada Chimako reveals the greatness of this modernist Japanese female poet, inspired by the work of Hagiwara Sakutaro. Often described as an "intellectual" writer, Tada weaves complex thinking into a highly emotional web of meaning...read more
By Jeffrey Angles (trans)
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9781933382999 | Italian edition edition (Green Integer Books, December 1, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jeffrey Angles' significant selection of the poetry of Tada Chimako reveals the greatness of this modernist Japanese female poet, inspired by the work of Hagiwara Sakutaro.

Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion
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By Jeffrey Angles (editor), Donald Richie (foreword by) and J. Thomas Rimer (editor)
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9781883513160 | Italian edition edition (Whereabouts Pr, May 1, 2006), cover price $14.95

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