Japan Reference

Once upon a time in Japan (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:28:56 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Famous Japanese children stories : Momotaro, Kintaro, Issun Boshi, Grandfather Cherry Blossom (Hanasaka-jiisan), Tanabata, Urashima Taro and Kaguya Hime.

100 recipes from Japanese cooking (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:23:54 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Presents 100 recipes for Japanese dishes. The text gives measurements in metric (Japanese), and pounds and ounces. All the dishes are illustrated.

The inscrutable Japanese (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:22:00 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: When are the Japanese commonly misunderstood by Westerners ?

Talking about Japan (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:14:02 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: A general history of Japan, organized chronologically from 10,000 BC to 1995. The book is a compilation of the work of eleven contributors to the history entries of the encyclopaedia. It is one of a series of bilingual book featuring corresponding text in both Japanese and English.

Talking about Buddhism (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:11:06 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: The basics of Japanese Buddhism explained in Japanese and English.

Japan at a Glance (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:08:59 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Nature, culture, customs, government, economy, sushi, kimono and more explained in this illustrated dictionary of Japanese things.

Fun with Origami (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:04:59 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: The art of origami (paper cranes) revealed in both English and Japanese.

Keys to the Japanese Heart & Soul (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:02:16 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: The difference between "wabi" and "sabi", etc.

Bushido (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:59:57 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: An exposition of the spirit of the samurai and the soul of the Japanese, written by Japanese internationalist, Nitobe Inazo.

Cha no hon/The book of tea (Bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:51:51 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: This bilingual edition text is an exposition of the practise and Zen philosophy of the art of tea. It presnets traditions past and present.

Japanese History (bilingual book)

Maciamo — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:49:59 +0900

The Tale of Murasaki : A Novel

Maciamo — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:45:30 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world�s first novel, The Tale of Genji, the most popular work in the history of Japanese literature. In The Tale of Murasaki, Liza Dalby has created a breathtaking fictionalized narrative of the life of this timeless poet�a lonely girl who becomes such a compelling storyteller that she is invited to regale the empress with her tales. The Tale of Murasaki is the story of an enchanting time and an exotic place. Whether writing about mystical rice fields in the rainy mountains or the politics and intrigue of the royal court, Dalby breathes astonishing life into ancient Japan.

Intermediate Vocabulary Games

Maciamo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:22:41 +0900

by: Maciamo

Intermediate Communication Games

Maciamo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:21:30 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: A Collection of Games and Activities for Low to Mid-Intermediate Students of English (Teachers Resource Materials)

Intermediate Grammar Games

Maciamo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:20:39 +0900

by: Maciamo

Elementary Communication Games

Maciamo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:19:54 +0900

by: Maciamo

Advanced Communication Games

Maciamo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:18:58 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: A Collection of Games and Activities for Advanced Students of English (Teachers Resource Materials)

Pronunciation Games

Maciamo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:16:55 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Pronunciation Games is a photocopiable resource book for use with students at pre-intermediate level and above. Each activity is designed to raise awareness of an aspect of English pronunciation. The Teacher's Pages offer clear instructions, background information, and suggestions for adaptation.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (Limited Edition) (1957)

Maciamo — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:48:07 +0900

by: Maciamo

The Japan That Can Say No/Why Japan Will Be First Among Equals

Maciamo — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:46:25 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: The (in)famous book of the governor of Tokyo, nationalist and self-proclaimed racist Shintaro Ishihara. Mr Ishihara explains why and how Japan should stand up to the United States. A very interesting read. [url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n2_v3/ai_10330579]Book Review here[/url]

English Vocabulary in Use , Upper-Intermediate

Maciamo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:20:57 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate is aimed specifically at upper-intermediate level learners. The material has been thoroughly revised following feedback from users of the first edition. The vocabulary presented in this new edition has now been informed by the Cambridge International Corpus of real language to ensure that the vocabulary is current, useful and relevant for learners. - 100 easy-to-use units: vocabulary items are presented and explained on left-hand pages with a range of practice exercises on right-hand pages. - Presents and explains new words in context, shows learners how to use them and how to work out rules for using them. - Contains a comprehensive, learner-friendly answer key. - Includes a detailed index with phonetic transcriptions to help with the pronunciation of difficult vocabulary. - Is beautifully illustrated in full colour.

English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced

Maciamo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:18:16 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: This new book in the successful English Vocabulary in Use series will bring students up to an advanced level knowledge of English. Over 2000 new words and expressions are presented and practised in typical contexts. Each unit provides valuable information for advanced level students about usage and there are clear explanations about subtle differences in meaning and collocation. This book has been carefully researched using evidence from the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that the language studied is the English native speakers actually use. - Clear, attractive colour units. - 100 easy-to-use two-page units. - Presents new words in context and shows learners how to use them. - Uses authentic texts. - Promotes good learning habits with learning tips and follow-up tasks. - Contains a comprehensive, student-friendly answer key and a detailed index with phonetic transcriptions.

Business Vocabulary In Use Advanced

Maciamo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:14:40 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: This is a self-study reference and practice book for upper intermediate and advanced learners of English who need vocabulary for business and professional purposes.Business Vocabulary in Use Advanced is a new self-study reference and practice book for advanced learners of English who need vocabulary for business and professional purposes. The book has been carefully researched using the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that the 2,000 new words and expressions represent the English that native speakers actually use. The book consists of 50 units and follows the highly successful format of the English Vocabulary in use range with presenationa maerial on the lfeft-hand page and practice exercises on the right hand page. The book covers a wide variety of up-to-date business topics and concepts.

English Vocabulary in Use, Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate

Maciamo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:11:58 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: English Vocabulary in Use pre-intermediate & intermediate has been thoroughly revised based on feedback from users of the first edition. The vocabulary presented in this new edition has been informed by the Cambridge International Corpus of real language to ensure that the vocabulary is current, useful and relevant for learners. - 100 easy-to-use units: vocabulary items are presented and explained on left-hand pages with a range of practice exercises on right-hand pages. - Presents and explains new words in context, shows learners how to use them and how to work out rules for using them. - Contains a comprehensive, learner-friendly answer key. - Includes a detailed index with phonetic transcriptions to help with the pronunciation of difficult vocabulary. - Is beautifully illustrated in full colour.

Test Your Business Vocabulary in Use

Maciamo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:10:37 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Test Your Business Vocabulary in Use is suitable for intermediate and upper-intermediate level learners of business English. Primarily designed as a companion to the best selling Business Vocabulary in Use, it can also be used to supplement other business English materials. The book covers a wide range of business topics including Jobs, People and Organisations, Production, Marketing, Finance and the Economy and Business Culture. Business skills covered include Meetings, Negotiating and Presentations. - 66 easy-to-use tests. - Builds confidence in using business vocabulary. - Offers a variety of test types. - Can be used by the student alone or by teachers as end-of-unit tests with groups. - Has a clear marking system on each page so progress can be easily checked. - Includes a comprehensive, learner-friendly answer key. - Contains British and American English. - Can be used for self-study and in class.

Business Vocabulary in Use

Maciamo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:08:25 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Business Vocabulary in Use, is a new addition to the best-selling English Vocabulary in Use series aimed specifically at intermediate level learners of business English. Primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, it can also be used for classroom work. The book covers a huge range of business topics including Jobs, People and Organisations, Production, Marketing, Finance and the Economy and Business Culture. Learners will develop essential business communication skills, focussing on the language used for Meetings, Negotiations and Presentations. Features: - 66 easy-to-use units: vocabulary items are presented and explained on left-hand pages with a range of practice exercises on right-hand pages. - Presents and explains new words in context and shows learners how to use them - Covers a huge range of business topics - Contains a comprehensive, learner-friendly answer key - Four colour illustrations and photographs.

English Grammar in Use: with Answers , A Self-Study Reference and Practice

Maciamo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:57:10 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: English Grammar in Use Third Edition is a fully updated version of the world's bestselling grammar title. Now in full colour, with new units and even more exercises, this updated edition retains all the key features of clarity and ease-of-use that have made the book so popular with students and teachers. This new edition is available with or without answers, can be used in the classroom or for self-study and comes with a free pull-out grammar reference panel. An exciting and substantial brand new CD-ROM offering a wealth of extra practice material, links to Cambridge Dictionaries online and pronunciation pratice is also available either on its own or packaged with English Grammar in Use Third Edition.

Hanami

Maciamo — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:56:25 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Hanami is set in modern day Tokyo where Jake Argand searches in the shadowy underworld of Japan's hostess scene for Jessica- a young, beautiful Australian who has disappeared. During Jake's investigation dismembered bodies of caucasian hostesses are being found daily by police who believe a serial killer is responsible. Jessica's trail leads Jake to believe the murderer is following the way of the samurai. Assisting Jake in his search is Maya, a Japanese hostess Jake tries to free from the Yakuza. But before he can find Jessica and stop the killings, he will learn the true meaning of samurai as well as Hanami- Japan's age old celebration of when cherry buds turn to blossom.

Looking for the Lost

Maciamo — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:13:39 +0900

by: Maciamo

Japanese for Young People III

Maciamo — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:46:53 +0900

by: Maciamo

Japanese for Young People II: Student Book

Maciamo — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:46:06 +0900

by: Maciamo

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

Maciamo — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:38:24 +0900

by: Maciamo

A Scene at the Sea (1992)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:00:25 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds. Though trapped in silence, their expression of love is no less profound. A heartrending masterpiece that, as with Kitano's other films (Sonatine, Fireworks), has a sharp eye for human frailties and a love for the courage of the underdog.

Getting Any? (1995)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:59:16 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: From the acclaimed director Takeshi Kitano [Fireworks, Kikujiro] comes a bizarre, over the top and absurd comedy full of slapstick silliness and never ending gags. A great satire of Japanese society and popular cinema, Getting Any?, embraces the spirit of Kitano�s early stand-up and television work and as such it offers a genuine inside look into his true personality. The story follows the nerdy middle age Asao, a professional daydreamer, whose one and only goal in life is - as the title suggests - to get laid. Asao embarks on a series of slapstick adventures in search of fulfilling his ultimate fantasy - making wild passionate sex with a woman. His holy quest for sex lands Asao in a series of absurd situations, involving robbery schemes, big movie productions, yakuza gang rivalry wars and scientific experiments. Getting Any? may be very episodic and perhaps even pointless in the grand scheme of things, but for those willing to go for it, it's a hoot from start to finish.

Brother (2000)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:58:10 +0900

by: Maciamo

Kids Return (1996)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:57:28 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Takeshi Kitano's humorous, offbeat, and ironic tale of lost adolescence and survival. Masaru and Shinji are two delinquent teenage slackers who cut classes, play pranks on their teachers and extort money from their fellow students. After dropping out of school, Shinji takes up boxing. Masaru, the loud mouth, talks his way into the local Yakuza gang. But just as they're about to attain success in their new professions, the past returns to haunt them.

Kikujiro (2000)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:56:06 +0900

by: Maciamo

Taboo (2000)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:55:14 +0900

by: Maciamo

Violent Cop (1989)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:54:25 +0900

by: Maciamo

Zatoichi (2004)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:53:42 +0900

by: Maciamo

Fireworks (1998)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:52:59 +0900

by: Maciamo

Empires - Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:51:39 +0900

by: Maciamo

Returner (2002)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:49:32 +0900

by: Maciamo

The Princess Blade (2002)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:48:35 +0900

by: Maciamo

Dead or Alive (Unrated Director's Cut) (2000)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:47:54 +0900

by: Maciamo

Versus (Special Edition) (2001)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:45:52 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Deep within the mysterious Forest of Resurrection, a spectacular battle between good and evil has gone on since the dawn of time. When Prisoner KSC2-303 escapes from a maximum security facility, he enters the forest, believing it will lead him to safe haven. Instead, he finds himself a pawn in an endless struggle played out across multiple temporal planes of existence. His opponent: a mysterious man who seemingly cannot be killed. The battle to be waged: Good versus Evil in the pursuit of a beautiful woman who holds the key to eternal life. What Prisoner KSC2-303 cannot remember is whether or not he is the personification of good or the very essence of darkness

Ichi the Killer (Unrated Edition) (2001)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:45:04 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku, and the home of Kakihara, a sadistic yakuza killer. He relentlessly tears apart the underworld searching for the man who killed his boss. The mastermind behind the plot is Jijii, an ex-cop bent on turning the gangsters of Japan against one another. His trump card is a physically powerful lunatic who is constantly on the verge of snapping. This madman is Ichi the Killer, and between him and Kakihara, the streets will run red with blood.

Samurai Fiction (1999)

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:44:14 +0900

by: Maciamo

Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:42:02 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: [b]Features: [/b] Stealth action game Play as ninjas Rikimaru or Ayama Unlockable third character Numerous ranged and melee weapons For 1 or 2 players

Samurai Warriors for X-Box

Maciamo — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:40:32 +0900

by: Maciamo

Description: [b]Features:[/b] Become Sanada Yukimura, the leader of an elite band of samurai and ninja Wield katana, fling deadly shuriken, use kunai, kuzarigama, and other lethal weapons Character-specific actions emphasize the personality of each character The auto-formation system (AFS) generates floor plans and routes, delivering a new experience with each play For 1 or 2 players