This classic phrasebook is an important historical curiosity as well as a practical guide to the Hawaiian language.This Hawaiian Phrase Book was originally published in 1906 and has long been out of print. Recent interest in the unique background of the 50th State has spurred the revival of this useful and compact volumeOriginally, the primary object of the manual was to "teach natives to converse in English" but the phrasebook soon became a valuab...

Incredible Japan is a crash course in Japanese cultureIt is an introduction to those inimitable aspects of Japan which are necessarily alien to the foreign observer. With delightful cartoons by the Japanese artistt—illustrator, Masakazu Kuwata.The book proves that what is incredible about Japan is not inexplicable, and provides enlightenment on such potentially incomprehensible paradoxes as:Highly-skilled young men who hold degrees in...

This collection of Japanese poetry contains over 200 poems by some 153 Americans writing of their impressions and experiences of Japan.If Japan forms the theme of the poems collected here, the variations are certainly the deep feeling so many Americans have come to have for Japan and the Japanese People. And the Resulting Choral is, we are convinced, both a thing of beauty and unique expression of goodwill between nations.Through the many years and in many ...