Map your own adventure. Japan Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the Land of the Rising Sun. <ul>
<li>Packed with 107 detailed full-color maps and more than 700 full-color photos</li> <li>83 regional and city itineraries that will help you maximize your time while touring the country's top sights. Tour the Tokyo’s top museums, the subculture of Osaka, Hiroshima's Peace Park, brave the arctic winds of Hokkaido, or just relax on the Okinawan Islands.</li> <li>Our authors, longtime Japan experts, hit all the highlights, from the top temples and castles to more offbeat destinations like Tokyo's fish market, Jigokudani's snow-monkey hot springs, or Naruto’s whirlpools. They've checked out all of the country's best hotels and restaurants in person, and offer authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget.</li> <li>You'll also get coverage of shopping and nightlife in the major cities; a full chapter on Japan’s rich history and culture, information on special-interest tours, and advice on planning a successful Japanese vacation.</li> <li>The cultural "Spotlight" sections take a closer look at the most compelling aspects of Japanese culture and include how to drink sake, the history of the samurai, and a crib sheet on contemporary Japanese writers.</li> <li>
Frommer's Japan Day by Day also includes a color fold-out map.</li> </ul>

Frommer's? Japan Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Full Size)

Travel

Yoda, Hiroko

Alt, Matt

Joe, Melinda

Asia

Frommers

'Amazingly well researched, fabulously informative and an awful lot of fun. If you love Japanese culture or are just curious to know more I can't recommend this book highly enough' Jonathan Ross\n'A nerd- and generalist-friendly look at how Japan shaped the post-World War II world, from toys to Trump . . . A non-native's savvy study of Japan's wide influence in ways both subtle and profound' Kirkus\nThe Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We've all fallen in love with one or another of Japan's pop-culture creations, from the techy to the wild to the super-kawaii. But as Japanese-media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation of Tokyo's pop-fantasy complex, we don't know the half of it.\nJapan's toys, gadgets, and fantasy worlds didn't merely entertain. They profoundly transformed the way we live. In the 1970s and '80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, soaring on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota while the West struggled to catch up. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the 'lost decades' of deep recession and social dysfunction.\nThe end of the boom times should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that's precisely when its cultural clout soared - when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products made Japan the forge of the world's fantasies, and gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them - connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution.\nThrough the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japanese ingenuity remade global culture and may have created modern life as we know it. It's Japan's world; we're just gaming, texting, singing, and dreaming in it.

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World

Business & Money

Constable

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination. The Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We’ve all fallen in love with one or another of Japan’s pop-culture creations, from the techy to the wild to the super-kawaii. But as Japanese media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation of Tokyo’s pop-fantasy complex, we don’t know the half of it. Japan’s toys, gadgets, and fantasy worlds didn’t merely entertain. They profoundly transformed the way we live. In the 1970s and ’80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, soaring on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota while the West struggled to catch up. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the “lost decades” of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom times should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that’s precisely when its cultural clout soared—when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and entertainment empires like Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products made Japan the forge of the world’s fantasies, and gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them—connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japanese ingenuity remade global culture and may have created modern life as we know it. It’s Japan’s world; we’re just gaming, texting, singing, and dreaming in it.

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

Reference

Crown

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination. &nbsp; "A masterful book&nbsp;driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling."--W. David Marx, author of&nbsp;Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Japan is the forge of the world's fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and '80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the "lost decades" of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that's precisely when its cultural clout soared--when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them--connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japan's pop-media complex remade global culture.

Yokai are Japan's traditional creepy-crawlies. Almost always encountered in the dark of night, they were once feared throughout the land. But they're more than just myth, more provocative than pop culture--references to yokai abound in Japanese idioms, and nearly every Japanese person has at least a passing knowledge of the most famous of these captivating creatures from times of old. Now, after collecting data and descriptions from a variety of sources, including first-hand accounts and microfilms of 18th-century publications stored in the National Diet Library in Tokyo, authors Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt have produced the first English-language guide to Japans yokai monsters. Original illustrations, created by the talented Tatsuya Morino, detail the potential visible appearance of each yokai. And alongside each and every one are data points allowing you to take in each yokai's characteristics at a glance. Forget Godzilla. Forget the giant beasties karate-chopped into oblivion by endless incarnations of Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and the Power Rangers. Forget the Pocket Monsters. Forget Sadako from The Ring and that creepy all-white kid from The Grudge. Forget everything you know about Japanese tales of terror. Their roots may extend back to days of yore, but Yokai Attack! will convince any reader that Japan's bewitching tradition of yokai monsters is far from being history.

Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Kodansha USA

Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese historyâ€”many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country. Ninja masters. Solo assassins and operatives. Femme fatales as deadly as they were sexy. Swordfighters out of legend. And the Shogun and warlords who commanded them. Each individual is profiled with a full-page manga-style drawing and a dossier brimming with top-secret information, including photos, anecdotes, and dramatic stories of the individuals in action. Ninja Attack! is everything you always wanted to know about ninja but were too afraid you'd get a shuriken in the eye to ask.

Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Yurei Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional ghosts and spirits. Surviving encounters with angry ghosts and sexy specters. Haunted places. Dangerous games and how to play them. And more importantly, a guided tour of what awaits in the world of the dead. Yurei is the Japanese word for "ghost." It's as simple as that. They are the souls of dead people, unable—or unwilling—to shuffle off this mortal coil. Yurei are many things, but "friendly" isn't the first word that comes to mind. Not every yurei is dangerous, but they are all driven by emotions so uncontrollably powerful that they have taken on a life of their own: rage, sadness, devotion, a desire for revenge, or even the firm belief that they are still alive. This book, the third in the authors' bestselling Attack! series, after Yokai Attack! and Ninja Attack! gives detailed information on 39 of the creepiest yurei stalking Japan, along with detailed histories and defensive tactics should you have the misfortune to encounter one. Japanese ghosts include:<ul>
<li>Oiwa, The Horror of Yotsuya</li>
<li>Otsuyu, The Tale of the Peony Lantern</li>
<li>The Lady Rokujo, The Tale of Genji</li>
<li>Isora, Tales of Moonlight and Rain</li>
<li>Orui, The Depths of Kasane</li>
</ul>
 Book 3 of 3 in the Yokai Attack! series. Others include Ninja Attack! and Yokai Attack!.

Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)

Tuttle+publishing

Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history—many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country. Ninja masters. Solo assassins and operatives. Femme fatales as deadly as they were beautiful. Swordfighters out of legend. And the Shogun and warlords who commanded them. Each individual in this graphic novel is profiled with a full-page manga-style drawing and a dossier brimming with top-secret information, including photos, anecdotes, and dramatic stories of the individuals in action. The book covers ninja clothing styles, the types of weapons that were used, ninja tools, ninja tricks of the trade, and the basics of the ninja diet. It also includes a do-it-yourself tour of ninja related spots in modern Tokyo. Ninja Attack! is everything you always wanted to know about ninja but were too afraid you'd get a shuriken in the eye to ask. Legendary ninja covered in this book include:<ul>
<li>Prince Shotoku</li>
<li>Mochizuki Chiyojo</li>
<li>Hattori Hanzo</li>
<li>Matsuo Basho</li>
<li>Mamiya Rinzo</li>
<li>Jiraiya</li>
</ul>
 Book 2 of 3 in the Yokai Attack! series. Others include Yokai Attack! and Yurei Attack!.

Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws (Yokai ATTACK! Series)

Manga

Yokai Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional monsters and creepy-crawlies. Yokai are ethereal sorts of beings, like ghosts, nearly always encountered at night; everyone has their own take on how they might look in real life and what sorts of specific characteristics and abilities they might have. This book is the result of long hours spent poring over data and descriptions from a variety of sources, including microfilms of eighteenth-century illustrations from the National Diet Library in Tokyo, in order to bring you detailed information on almost 50 of these amazing creatures for the first time in English. Illustrations, created by the talented Tatsuya Morino, detail the potential appearance of each yokai. Alongside each illustration is a series of "data points," with each yokai's significant features at a glance—especially handy for any potential close encounters. Yokai Attack! will surely convince you that Japan's tradition of fascinating monsters is a long one—yet far from being history. Book 1 of 3 in the Yokai Attack! series. Others include Ninja Attack! and Yurei Attack!.

Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)

¿Qué habría sido de nuestra juventud sin el Walkman o Pac-Man? ¿Qué sería de nuestros mensajes de texto sin emojis? ¿Y de las celebraciones con amigos sin karaoke? Todas estas innovaciones se las debemos a los japoneses. Matt Alt desvela la historia detrás de las principales creaciones niponas que han conquistado el planeta. Artísticamente empaquetadas, peligrosamente tiernas e inmensamente divertidas, exportaciones como Hello Kitty y Nintendo no se limitaron solo a entretener a generaciones de niños, sino que también transformaron profundamente nuestra forma de vivir.

Manga, arcades y karaokes: Cómo la cultura pop japonesa reinventó el mundo

Ediciones Península

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Frommer's? Japan Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Full Size)

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World

Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide

Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws

Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)

Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws (Yokai ATTACK! Series)

Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)

Manga, arcades y karaokes: Cómo la cultura pop japonesa reinventó el mundo