Author: Miyuki Miyabe
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: worth
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-05-12
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0395966582
ISBN-13: 9780395966587

Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan’s consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, that murder may be the only way out. A beautiful young woman vanishes, and the detective quickly finds she is not whom she claims to be. Is she a victim, a killer, or both? In a country that tracks its citizens at every turn, how can two women claim the same identity and then disappear without a

Author: Miyuki Miyabe
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: family, shadow
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 4770030045
ISBN-13: 9784770030047

In Shadow Family, Miyuki Miyabe draws readers into the amorphous world of Internet chat rooms-a world of people from all walks of life attracted by the possibility of being whomever they want to be. Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged office worker discover e-mail correspondence on the victim’s computer that indicates he had been a regular participant in an Internet chat room, as the "father" in a fantasy "family." Meanwhile, a female detective is assigned to protect the dead man’s real-life daughter who complains of being stalked. As the real daughter confronts her fa

Authors:Keith Jackson, Miyuki Tomioka,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: working, asia, management, japanese, face, changing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-11-06
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0415287448
ISBN-13: 9780415287449

The practice and perceptions of Japanese management are undergoing fundamental change. This book sets out to identify the essential currents of change and explain how and why these impinge on the experience of managers in Japan.

Authors:Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama, Akemi Tomioka,
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Keywords: collection, japanese, literature, spring, rock, season, haiku, tanka, rainy
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1880656159
ISBN-13: 9781880656150

A thousand years ago women poets at the Japanese imperial court created a written aesthetic of unmatched elegance and technical skill. Today, Japanese women poets write with equal sophistication about romance, family life, and sexuality, and about divorce, loneliness, feminism, politics, and the West. In this landmark anthology of traditional short verse (the haiku and the slightly longer tanka) fifteen contemporary Japanese women poets reveal the changing society that is Japan today. Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award.