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Yasmine La Salle
For Yasmine La Salle's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 12, 2014
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
With subjects ranging from consumerism to female farmers, 'Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty' is a book that's geared toward students.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 5, 2014
The Art of The Wind Rises
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 29, 2014
Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands
This extensive travel book by lecturer and Okinawa expert Robert Walker is billed as "the first comprehensive guide to the entire Ryukyu Island chain." With 25 years experience traveling throughout the region's 150-islands Walker has amassed a huge amount of information — condensed here into 290 pages that cover everything from useful Japanese terms to the activities each island is known for. With key destinations, transportation information and places to stay even on the smallest of islands, all of the necessary information is provided without overwhelming the reader.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 22, 2014
Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuance of Long-Term Resistance
As the '90s settled in and the new millennium was fast approaching, Japanese society saw an increase in the governmental status of "not yet married" women. The women classified under this category saw themselves as the up-and-coming future for postwar Japan. With an almost five-year increase in the age of first marriage, the mean went from 24.2 years old in 1970 to 28.6 in 2009. While these women faced societal pressure from the government and their own mothers to get married, there was more freedom and flexibility in remaining single.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 15, 2014
Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
In her new book, " Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible," award-winning author Suzanne Kamata shows her young audience that invisibility is not always a superpower, and becoming a young adult is not always easy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 15, 2014
I Hear Them Cry
In her debut novel, "I Hear Them Cry," award-winning author Shiho Kishimoto explores how the pattern of violent behavior can be inherited from parent to child and how love and violence are often connected.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 30, 2014
Film provides some food for thought
New documentary 'Drops of Heaven' focuses on Yoshiko Tasumi, the woman whose 'soup of life' made her culinary efforts famous.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 23, 2014
New-year festivities all set to start in Yokohama
From the end of next week, Yokohama's Chinatown begins its spring festival to ring in the Year of the Horse.

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