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"Ikko Narahara: The Sky in my Hands"
Nagasaki :: Japan | 5 months ago
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The Sky in my Hands" Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum Staff writer Ikko Narahara first shot to fame in 1956, with "Human Land" a photographic documentation of expeditions to the deserted Gunkanjima (Battleship Island) in Nagasaki Prefecture, and the
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"Mary Blair: A Life's Choice, A Mother's Job, from Studio Ghibli Collection"
Tōkyō :: Japan | 10 months ago
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Staff writer Mary Blair (1911-1978) is probably best remembered for her work for the Walt Disney Studios. She is known to have influenced the blockbuster animations "Cinderella," "Alice In Wonderland" and "Peter Pan." After leaving Disney, Blair
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"Marc Chagall 2012: The Love Story"
Minsk :: Belarus | 11 months ago
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Staff writer Marc Chagall lived through the hardships of both world wars. Because of this life and his Belarusian-Russian-French roots, he moved many times from Vitebsk in Belarus, where he grew up, to traveling between St. Petersburg, Berlin and
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Exploring historic Nagasaki
Fukuoka :: Japan | over 2 years ago
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Steps now long gone formerly led down from there to a quay in Nagasaki's sheltered harbor where, in centuries past, visiting trading ships tied up. It was here that European mariners many malnourished and sick from the four-month voyage to the Far
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Nagasaki: Japan's forgotten city
Nagasaki :: Japan | over 2 years ago
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Seen from the glass-walled observation post atop Mount Inasa, Nagasaki sprawls to the north and south, tucked into the folds of hills rising from both sides of a narrow, U-shaped harbour. Located on the northwest coast of Kyushu Island, it is one of
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What We Read in 2010
San Ramon :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Based on sales totals reported by Bay Books (San Ramon), Books Inc. (Alameda and Berkeley), Diesel (Oakland), A Great Good Place for Books (Oakland), Moe's (Berkeley), Mrs. Dalloway's (Berkeley) and Pegasus (Berkeley). Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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The swashbuckling Scotsman who helped build modern Japan
Nagasaki :: Japan | over 2 years ago
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Coetzee's "Summertime" states, "Of course we are all fictioneers...But which would you rather have: a set of independent reports from a range of independent perspectives, from which you can then try to synthesize a whole; or the massive, unitary self-
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New look at old Edo's window to the West
Nagasaki :: Japan | over 2 years ago
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Harvard University Asia Center, 2010, 281 pp., $39.95. (hardcover) Japan's seclusion policy (sakoku) from the early 17th to the mid-19th century is commonly studied from the point of view of the bakufu, the Tokugawa government in Edo that exercised
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The A-bomb's second city: Nagasaki has a long
Nagasaki :: Japan | almost 3 years ago
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Opera lovers looking at a lovely Japanese woman waiting for her American lover to return. Nagasaki, both real and imagined, has been in Western eyes for half a millennium. But no eyes had more effect on the city than those of a Texan named Kermit
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Top in Category › Nagasaki a hotbed of after-hours fun
Nagasaki :: Japan | almost 3 years ago
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Great weather, a beautiful seafront, first-rate museums, delicious food, international flair and a fascinatingthough at times tragichistory make this one of the most interesting cities in Japan. And its charms don't end when the sun goes downfar from
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